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For some reason after upgrading to Lion I have to kill the process for imagent regularly in order to use iChat. Otherwise iChat stays stuck saying “unavailable.” I don’t know exactly why this is happening to some people and not others but I’m one of the unlucky people who has been experiencing it ever since [...]
Posted: December 23, 2011, 9:33 am
These instructions will install the ImageMagick binaries as well as the PHP extension for the default OSX Apache/PHP setup. If you prefer not to use MacPorts there are binaries available, however you may have to deal with some dependencies and configuration on your own. 1. Install ImageMagick sudo port install ImageMagick 2. Install imagic module [...]
Posted: December 22, 2011, 5:34 am
I was reading an argument discussion on google groups regarding the try/catch statement and node.js. In particular there was a suggestion that try/catch is an anti-pattern, meaning a poor development habit that is in common use. I can’t really agree that try/catch on it’s own is a bad thing but it is certainly easy to [...]
Posted: November 14, 2011, 8:39 pm
This is a follow-up to my previous article on installing a LAMP Stack on Snow Leopard and explains the steps that you need to get Lion up and running for LAMP development. (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in case you don’t already know). Lion comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP 5.3.6 so you only need [...]
Posted: August 18, 2011, 10:14 pm
This walk-through video shows how to install and enable PHP debugging using the Zend debugger in Eclipse on OSX. Instead of using print_r and die statements you can step through your code line-by-line, inspect variables and objects, set breakpoints and view the call stack. Using a debugger really pays off in the long run in [...]
Posted: August 16, 2011, 9:02 pm
Direct URL for UPS shipment tracking: http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?track=yes&trackNums=1ZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX If any value is provided for the “track” parameter then the confirmation page is skipped and the user goes directly to the tracking page. If you’d rather send the user to the confirmation page then just omit that parameter. Direct URL for FedEx shipment tracking: http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?action=track&tracknumbers=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Direct URL [...]
Posted: July 6, 2011, 5:17 pm
This is a simple math formula parser for PHP. This is based off of various comments at php.net. For security all alphabetical characters are stripped which means that functions like sin, cos, etc are not supported. Please leave any improvements or suggestions in the comments below. /** * Evaluates a math equation and returns the result, [...]
Posted: June 29, 2011, 1:02 am
WordPress includes an RSS parsing library called SimplePie. WordPress utilizes this open source project to handle the low-level details of parsing RSS feeds. The version included with WordPress (as of 3.1.3) is 1.2. However this is not the most recent version of SimplePie. Attached to this post is SimplePie 1.3-dev which is compatible with version [...]
Posted: June 18, 2011, 9:47 pm
If you’re at this page you probably have encountered an error similar to “Error Code: 1093 You can’t specify target table ‘my_table’ for update in FROM clause” The reason for this error is that MySQL doesn’t allow updates to a table when you are also using that same table in an inner select as your [...]
Posted: March 30, 2011, 9:50 pm
Connecting to your VNC server over SSH is easily done and you most likely don’t need any special software to do so. Any system that has SSH installed can connect using an SSH Tunnel. I go into more detail about the concept on a separate post about mounting OSX AFS shares over SSH. First you [...]
Posted: March 28, 2011, 3:07 am
VerySimple
Custom Software
For some reason after upgrading to Lion I have to kill the process for imagent regularly in order to use iChat. Otherwise iChat stays stuck saying “unavailable.” I don’t know exactly why this is happening to some people and not others but I’m one of the unlucky people who has been experiencing it ever since [...]
Posted: December 23, 2011, 9:33 am
These instructions will install the ImageMagick binaries as well as the PHP extension for the default OSX Apache/PHP setup. If you prefer not to use MacPorts there are binaries available, however you may have to deal with some dependencies and configuration on your own. 1. Install ImageMagick sudo port install ImageMagick 2. Install imagic module [...]
Posted: December 22, 2011, 5:34 am
I was reading an argument discussion on google groups regarding the try/catch statement and node.js. In particular there was a suggestion that try/catch is an anti-pattern, meaning a poor development habit that is in common use. I can’t really agree that try/catch on it’s own is a bad thing but it is certainly easy to [...]
Posted: November 14, 2011, 8:39 pm
This is a follow-up to my previous article on installing a LAMP Stack on Snow Leopard and explains the steps that you need to get Lion up and running for LAMP development. (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in case you don’t already know). Lion comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP 5.3.6 so you only need [...]
Posted: August 18, 2011, 10:14 pm
This walk-through video shows how to install and enable PHP debugging using the Zend debugger in Eclipse on OSX. Instead of using print_r and die statements you can step through your code line-by-line, inspect variables and objects, set breakpoints and view the call stack. Using a debugger really pays off in the long run in [...]
Posted: August 16, 2011, 9:02 pm
Direct URL for UPS shipment tracking: http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/track?track=yes&trackNums=1ZXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX If any value is provided for the “track” parameter then the confirmation page is skipped and the user goes directly to the tracking page. If you’d rather send the user to the confirmation page then just omit that parameter. Direct URL for FedEx shipment tracking: http://www.fedex.com/Tracking?action=track&tracknumbers=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Direct URL [...]
Posted: July 6, 2011, 5:17 pm
This is a simple math formula parser for PHP. This is based off of various comments at php.net. For security all alphabetical characters are stripped which means that functions like sin, cos, etc are not supported. Please leave any improvements or suggestions in the comments below. /** * Evaluates a math equation and returns the result, [...]
Posted: June 29, 2011, 1:02 am
WordPress includes an RSS parsing library called SimplePie. WordPress utilizes this open source project to handle the low-level details of parsing RSS feeds. The version included with WordPress (as of 3.1.3) is 1.2. However this is not the most recent version of SimplePie. Attached to this post is SimplePie 1.3-dev which is compatible with version [...]
Posted: June 18, 2011, 9:47 pm
If you’re at this page you probably have encountered an error similar to “Error Code: 1093 You can’t specify target table ‘my_table’ for update in FROM clause” The reason for this error is that MySQL doesn’t allow updates to a table when you are also using that same table in an inner select as your [...]
Posted: March 30, 2011, 9:50 pm
Connecting to your VNC server over SSH is easily done and you most likely don’t need any special software to do so. Any system that has SSH installed can connect using an SSH Tunnel. I go into more detail about the concept on a separate post about mounting OSX AFS shares over SSH. First you [...]
Posted: March 28, 2011, 3:07 am
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