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Martin Gardner and me
I just read on AskWoody.com that Martin Gardner, the longtime author of the Scientific American column “Mathematical Games”, has died at the age of 95.I am a bit surprised at how it is affecting me.As...
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Gotcha – SQL count() query with LIMIT clause
Bumped into an interesting feature today. Well, whether it’s a feature or a gotcha appears to be in the eye of the beholder. And, I’ll tell ya, for this particular beholder, it was a gotcha.I’ve got...
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Siam Real Estate – Redesigned
Just completed a redesign for Siam Real Estate, specializing in Phuket villa rentals and property sales.The graphic design – including much of the markup and CSS – was done by Blue D.Zine here in...
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International Business Association of Phuket (IBAP) – New features
Recently implemented new login and the member-only features for the International Business Association of Phuket (IBAP).Check it out: http://ibap-phuket.org/
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Naming conventions for database tables and fields
@JeremyKendall recently asked a great question on Twitter:Do you have a DB naming convention? camelCase? under_scores? Singular or plural table names? I can never settle on anything.He got some great...
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Zend Framework default routing for hyphenated and camelCase URL’s
Using the default routing in Zend Framework (v1.x), I always forget how certain URL patterns map to action and view-script names. So just a quick post, mostly for myself, to record them here.URL:...
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Greeting
$papayasoft->wishesYou(array( new Christmas('merry'), new Year(array('happy', 'healthy', 'prosperous')), )); $this->assert($papayasoft->isGeek());
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CRISP-y goodness: tracking Phuket internet speeds
I am pleased to report that we have launched the new version of CRISP – Customers Reporting Internet Speeds in Phuket.For some years, well-known computer columnist and baker Woody Leonhard (see...
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Unit testing for placeholder-based view-helpers in Zend Framework
Just got bitten by an interesting little issue.I have a Zend Framework view-helper that I use to add a CSS class to an HTML <body> tag. Usage in a view-script...
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What is dependency injection?
For quite some time, I have been working on getting my head around best practices for structuring my web applications. One of the strongest messages that has come through is to use dependency injection...
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The PHP Community. My Community.
I am a PHP developer. I use PHP for nearly all my server-side development. Much of my learning of design patterns and general best practices and has taken place within a PHP context.I’ve been doing web...
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Custom frontends for Zend_Cache
As we all know, server-side caching is a useful technique for optimizing the performance of web apps. Whenever some expensive operation is called for – a db query, a remote web service call, etc –...
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Zend Framework 2: Concepts, Flexibility, Complexity
As I try to get my own head around the ongoing development of Zend Framework 2 (ZF2) and as I see other beginner/intermediate developers ask similar questions, I thought it would be useful – to me at...
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Accessing Zend Framework application resources and config options in module...
A quick post to document something I tripped over today. As usual, mostly for my own benefit since there is a decent chance that I’ll completely forget it the next time I need it.I had a Zend Framework...
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Debugging a web-app in a Vagrant-provisioned VirtualBox VM using Netbeans
Our team has begun to use Vagrant to provision controlled virtual machine environments for all our development. It’s a cool concept, but I was left without the ability to use my Netbeans debugger. It...
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Goodbye, Wordpress. Hello, Octopress.
Finally made the move from Wordpress to Octopress.Why leave Wordpress?I’m finding it hard to identify specifically what was so unsatisfying about Wordpress.Maybe it was fighting through a GUI. Maybe it...
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Composer Process Timeout When Fetching Large Repositories
Yesterday I was doing a composer install from within my VM, but it kept timing out.My first assumption was some network problem since my internet service is relatively slow and unreliable (at least...
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Review - 'Twilio Cookbook' by Roger Stringer from Packt
Twilio Cookbook is a useful introduction, accessible to PHP developers at all levels, to developing apps using Twilio’s telephony platform. I had no experience with Twilio before reading this book and...
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Custom chmod permissions during Octopress deploy via rsync
So, today my blog/site started throwing 500 errors on every page. Actually, it might have been doing it for a while; I’ve been crazy busy lately, so haven’t checked. Need to get some automatic...
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You've Ruined Me. All of you.
(A message to my colleagues and the broader dev community, in general)Look at what you people have done to me in two short years.So, I do a little work on a branch. Change a few...
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