This is a random collection of SVN functions, in no particular order.  They’re here for my own selfish reference purposes: View all files not in version control: svn status | grep "^\?" | awk "{print \$2}" Manually add files to SVN Ignore List: export SVN_EDITOR=vim svn propedit svn:ignore /path/to/directory  

Ngnix is (among other things) a web server that uses an asynchronous event-driven approach to handling requests, instead of the Apache HTTP Server model that defaults to a threaded or process-oriented approach. Nginx’s event-driven approach can provide more predictable performance under high loads. This how-to explains installing Ngnix on OSX Mountain Lion using Homebrew. Ngnix [...]

OSX 10.8 comes pre-installed with PHP and PHP-FPM. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. PHP-FPM is not a web server, but rather is used in combination with a web server such as Apache and Ngnix to handle PHP [...]

This is a follow-up to my previous article on installing a LAMP Stack on 10.7 Lion and explains the steps that you need to get 10.8 Mountain Lion up and running for LAMP development.  (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in case you don’t already know).  Mountain Lion comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP 5.3.6 so you only [...]

Last year like a lot of other developers I started to get excited about client-side Javascript frameworks.  Particularly interesting to me are frameworks that implement the concept of binding, where changes to your model objects will cause the view to update automatically.  To me it’s basically a little bit of magic that makes your web [...]

This article is in response to a discussion on hacker news regarding ORMs (or object-relational mapping) which is a programming technique where a database is abstracted into classes. Instead of writing SQL at the application level all database interaction is done through objects. There are many ORMs out there, to name just a few: Hibernate for [...]

Great programmers don’t trust their own code and assume that they’ve made mistakes. What exactly do I mean by that?  Notice I didn’t say that great programmers actually make a lot of mistakes.  In fact great programmers probably make a lot less mistakes than their novice counterparts.  But they approach their code with the attitude [...]

I recently started using Apple’s iCloud service to sync the address book, contacts and calendar between my desktop and phone.  It’s a fantastic service that allows you to add or edit a contact in one place and have that contact appear on all of your other devices instantly without plugging in your phone to sync. [...]

When viewing your SSL certification details in Chrome you may notice an annoying yellow warning icon with the error message “Your connection had to be retried using SSL 3.0 This typically means the server is using very old software and may have other security issues” This warning technically doesn’t affect or hurt anything but of [...]

iChat will be replaced in the next version of OSX “Mountain Lion” with an app called simply “Messages.” This new app is an improvement to iChat and includes some nice features like multiple chats in a single window and the ability to send messages to iPhones via iMessage. You can download the BETA version now [...]

This is a random collection of SVN functions, in no particular order.  They’re here for my own selfish reference purposes: View all files not in version control: svn status | grep "^\?" | awk "{print \$2}" Manually add files to SVN Ignore List: export SVN_EDITOR=vim svn propedit svn:ignore /path/to/directory  

Ngnix is (among other things) a web server that uses an asynchronous event-driven approach to handling requests, instead of the Apache HTTP Server model that defaults to a threaded or process-oriented approach. Nginx’s event-driven approach can provide more predictable performance under high loads. This how-to explains installing Ngnix on OSX Mountain Lion using Homebrew. Ngnix [...]

OSX 10.8 comes pre-installed with PHP and PHP-FPM. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. PHP-FPM is not a web server, but rather is used in combination with a web server such as Apache and Ngnix to handle PHP [...]

This is a follow-up to my previous article on installing a LAMP Stack on 10.7 Lion and explains the steps that you need to get 10.8 Mountain Lion up and running for LAMP development.  (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in case you don’t already know).  Mountain Lion comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP 5.3.6 so you only [...]

Last year like a lot of other developers I started to get excited about client-side Javascript frameworks.  Particularly interesting to me are frameworks that implement the concept of binding, where changes to your model objects will cause the view to update automatically.  To me it’s basically a little bit of magic that makes your web [...]

This article is in response to a discussion on hacker news regarding ORMs (or object-relational mapping) which is a programming technique where a database is abstracted into classes. Instead of writing SQL at the application level all database interaction is done through objects. There are many ORMs out there, to name just a few: Hibernate for [...]

Great programmers don’t trust their own code and assume that they’ve made mistakes. What exactly do I mean by that?  Notice I didn’t say that great programmers actually make a lot of mistakes.  In fact great programmers probably make a lot less mistakes than their novice counterparts.  But they approach their code with the attitude [...]

I recently started using Apple’s iCloud service to sync the address book, contacts and calendar between my desktop and phone.  It’s a fantastic service that allows you to add or edit a contact in one place and have that contact appear on all of your other devices instantly without plugging in your phone to sync. [...]

When viewing your SSL certification details in Chrome you may notice an annoying yellow warning icon with the error message “Your connection had to be retried using SSL 3.0 This typically means the server is using very old software and may have other security issues” This warning technically doesn’t affect or hurt anything but of [...]

iChat will be replaced in the next version of OSX “Mountain Lion” with an app called simply “Messages.” This new app is an improvement to iChat and includes some nice features like multiple chats in a single window and the ability to send messages to iPhones via iMessage. You can download the BETA version now [...]

This is a random collection of SVN functions, in no particular order.  They’re here for my own selfish reference purposes: View all files not in version control: svn status | grep "^\?" | awk "{print \$2}" Manually add files to SVN Ignore List: export SVN_EDITOR=vim svn propedit svn:ignore /path/to/directory  

Ngnix is (among other things) a web server that uses an asynchronous event-driven approach to handling requests, instead of the Apache HTTP Server model that defaults to a threaded or process-oriented approach. Nginx’s event-driven approach can provide more predictable performance under high loads. This how-to explains installing Ngnix on OSX Mountain Lion using Homebrew. Ngnix [...]

OSX 10.8 comes pre-installed with PHP and PHP-FPM. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. PHP-FPM is not a web server, but rather is used in combination with a web server such as Apache and Ngnix to handle PHP [...]

This is a follow-up to my previous article on installing a LAMP Stack on 10.7 Lion and explains the steps that you need to get 10.8 Mountain Lion up and running for LAMP development.  (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in case you don’t already know).  Mountain Lion comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP 5.3.6 so you only [...]

Last year like a lot of other developers I started to get excited about client-side Javascript frameworks.  Particularly interesting to me are frameworks that implement the concept of binding, where changes to your model objects will cause the view to update automatically.  To me it’s basically a little bit of magic that makes your web [...]

This article is in response to a discussion on hacker news regarding ORMs (or object-relational mapping) which is a programming technique where a database is abstracted into classes. Instead of writing SQL at the application level all database interaction is done through objects. There are many ORMs out there, to name just a few: Hibernate for [...]

Great programmers don’t trust their own code and assume that they’ve made mistakes. What exactly do I mean by that?  Notice I didn’t say that great programmers actually make a lot of mistakes.  In fact great programmers probably make a lot less mistakes than their novice counterparts.  But they approach their code with the attitude [...]

I recently started using Apple’s iCloud service to sync the address book, contacts and calendar between my desktop and phone.  It’s a fantastic service that allows you to add or edit a contact in one place and have that contact appear on all of your other devices instantly without plugging in your phone to sync. [...]

When viewing your SSL certification details in Chrome you may notice an annoying yellow warning icon with the error message “Your connection had to be retried using SSL 3.0 This typically means the server is using very old software and may have other security issues” This warning technically doesn’t affect or hurt anything but of [...]

iChat will be replaced in the next version of OSX “Mountain Lion” with an app called simply “Messages.” This new app is an improvement to iChat and includes some nice features like multiple chats in a single window and the ability to send messages to iPhones via iMessage. You can download the BETA version now [...]

This is a random collection of SVN functions, in no particular order.  They’re here for my own selfish reference purposes: View all files not in version control: svn status | grep "^\?" | awk "{print \$2}" Manually add files to SVN Ignore List: export SVN_EDITOR=vim svn propedit svn:ignore /path/to/directory  

Ngnix is (among other things) a web server that uses an asynchronous event-driven approach to handling requests, instead of the Apache HTTP Server model that defaults to a threaded or process-oriented approach. Nginx’s event-driven approach can provide more predictable performance under high loads. This how-to explains installing Ngnix on OSX Mountain Lion using Homebrew. Ngnix [...]

OSX 10.8 comes pre-installed with PHP and PHP-FPM. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. PHP-FPM is not a web server, but rather is used in combination with a web server such as Apache and Ngnix to handle PHP [...]

This is a follow-up to my previous article on installing a LAMP Stack on 10.7 Lion and explains the steps that you need to get 10.8 Mountain Lion up and running for LAMP development.  (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in case you don’t already know).  Mountain Lion comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP 5.3.6 so you only [...]

Last year like a lot of other developers I started to get excited about client-side Javascript frameworks.  Particularly interesting to me are frameworks that implement the concept of binding, where changes to your model objects will cause the view to update automatically.  To me it’s basically a little bit of magic that makes your web [...]

This article is in response to a discussion on hacker news regarding ORMs (or object-relational mapping) which is a programming technique where a database is abstracted into classes. Instead of writing SQL at the application level all database interaction is done through objects. There are many ORMs out there, to name just a few: Hibernate for [...]

Great programmers don’t trust their own code and assume that they’ve made mistakes. What exactly do I mean by that?  Notice I didn’t say that great programmers actually make a lot of mistakes.  In fact great programmers probably make a lot less mistakes than their novice counterparts.  But they approach their code with the attitude [...]

I recently started using Apple’s iCloud service to sync the address book, contacts and calendar between my desktop and phone.  It’s a fantastic service that allows you to add or edit a contact in one place and have that contact appear on all of your other devices instantly without plugging in your phone to sync. [...]

When viewing your SSL certification details in Chrome you may notice an annoying yellow warning icon with the error message “Your connection had to be retried using SSL 3.0 This typically means the server is using very old software and may have other security issues” This warning technically doesn’t affect or hurt anything but of [...]

iChat will be replaced in the next version of OSX “Mountain Lion” with an app called simply “Messages.” This new app is an improvement to iChat and includes some nice features like multiple chats in a single window and the ability to send messages to iPhones via iMessage. You can download the BETA version now [...]