January 2012
2 posts
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PHP Logging, Exception Handling, and Event...
Last year I wanted to use the newly released Symfony framework to create my own web applications. As I perused through its source code and documentation, I noticed that there were a lot of concepts that I could learn and use in my own software. I decided to scrap all of my existing work and start clean using my new found knowledge. The result of that work are a few libraries I have developed,...
December 2011
4 posts
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SOPA Is Censorship
For the past 7+ years, I have had zero problems with GoDaddy. I did not care about their marketing campaigns or the comments made about GoDaddy. Business is business and GoDaddy was and is good at what they do. With the recent improvement they have made to their user interface, this makes this even harder.
Like many others, I have and am in the process of moving my last domains from GoDaddy. ...
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Apache 2, PHP-FPM, mod_fastcgi →
Took me a while to figure out how to get this thing to work.
I ended up realizing that the default configuration for mod_php redirect all PHP processing to the module instead of FastCGI.
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DocHub.io: CSS, HTML Documentation in a Clean,... →
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Fix PHPUnit Not Doing Anything
Are you trying to run PHPUnit, but it just exits without doing anything? Hopefully, I think I may have an answer for you.
For me, a vanilla installation of PHP with PHPUnit will do nothing if one of your scripts cannot be parsed by PHP. You would never know this because the default INI configuration for PHP hides those errors. To know for sure, you should check the exit status after running...
November 2011
7 posts
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Setting Up Eclipse 3.7 with Marketplace and PDT
I have been having issues getting Eclipse 3.7 with PDT to work with the Marketplace client. I wanted to install it so I could install the Lion fullscreen plugin, but the instructions should work on any other OS.
Download and install Eclipse 3.7 Classic
Go to Help > Install New Software
Under Work with, select Indigo
In the filter box, type Marketplace and install the Marketplace client
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Thanksgiving
I am grateful for everything I own, all the people in my life, and opportunities I am presented with.
The people in my life give me the opportunity to experience and own new and exciting things.
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Change of Pace
I just had one of those life epiphanies you get as you grow up and learn more about yourself.
For years I have always programmed for myself, my clients, and my job. When I was younger this wasn’t a problem since my energy levels grew unchecked. Now that I’m older, things are not as simple anymore. Just last week I learned that if I work on personal software projects during my work...
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Protect The Internet →
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Budgeting RAM on MediaTemple's (ve) Product
If you take a look at my portfolio right now, you will notice that it’s pretty barren.
I decided to switch from WordPress.com to MediaTemple (mt) because of the lack of control I had over my own website. Having experience using WordPress on multiple private hosts, I had trouble stomaching being nickel-and-dimed to death. That, and advertisements on a portfolio did not look very...
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CODEAlchemy Log Library
In my quest to find a modern, object oriented, PHP logging library, I found precious few. Because of the respect I have for Symfony and Sensio Labs, I decided to take a look at the Monolog library that was bundled with it. I must give props to Jordi, I can see why it was decided to be include it with Symfony.
However, I did not like the design of the library. This is a matter of personal...
October 2011
6 posts
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Google to Facebook
As I wrote my last post, I realized something, which should have been obvious to me.
There is a very fundamental difference between Google+ and Facebook.
Facebook is oriented around establishing and maintaining associations with other people. This means that contact information is exchanged through profiles, videos and photos are shared between friends/family/associates, and people can converse...
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Google+ Needs To Catch Up
Updated: My comment about submitting photos through the web UI was incomplete. I meant using my webcam to submit pictures.
After having used Google+ for about two days, I can safely say I would really enjoy it were it not lacking some basic functionality.
The ability to
mute individual people
mute a whole circle
mute GIFs posts
create a custom stream
submit photos directly through the...
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How Politicians Work?
Sure, it may seem obvious to many, but I’m still young and learning.
Politicians spend most of their career (which it shouldn’t be) pursuing the interests of the people who paid for their election campaign. Only the months prior to the next election cycle do they even attempt to feign interest on fulfilling their campaign promises. The gimmick is that they start to push for things,...
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“The real world won’t care as much about your self-esteem as much
as your...”
– Charles J. Sykes
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Back to Tumblr
As I have been reminded, time and time again, the only way you’ll learn something is if you get hurt.
Well, I’m not actually hurt, but I am very annoyed. Posterous hasn’t made much progress on the customization front, which I was hoping would catch up to what Tumblr has to offer. Tumblr on the other had has made vast improvements on its user interface. Specifically, their...