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Deploying Wordpress with Phing to the Rackspace Cloud

by Vid Luther on February 15, 2010

in php, rackspace, ssh, version control, web

My last post about Wordpress and Capistrano made people ask why wasn’t I using Phing, and staying within the PHP ecosystem. The answer was simple, I wanted to learn Ruby, and I wanted to learn Capistrano. The question kept nagging me though, so I decided to find out how easy would it be to [...]

HipHop for PHP is not for you 60% of the time, everytime.

February 3, 2010

My apologies to Ron Burgundy for the title of the post, but I’m just a fan of the wisest man to ever live.
As Marco and Illia and countless others have said, unless you don’t work with PHP or were in a coma, Facebook released
HipHop for PHP , it’s open source, it’s awesome, it makes you [...]

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Installing the PHP SSH2 extension in Snow Leopard (10.6)

January 23, 2010

Getting PHP with SSH support is not an easy task in Snow Leopard. If you need it, here’s a hackish way to do it, until Sara or Mike get around to patching the ssh2 in PECL.
Requirements:

Xcode : You’re going to be compiling stuff, get it from the apple dev site, be sure to install the [...]

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Managing Wordpress and other PHP projects with Ruby

January 12, 2010

The past month or so has given us a lot of blog posts on how, and why we should use automated build and deploy systems.
One of the best deployment systems out there (imho), is by the Ruby community, and it’s called Capistrano. We’ve been using it internally since this summer to manage and [...]

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You have no clue. Or, “Release Early, Release Often” in laymen’s terms.

January 11, 2010

I don’t have much to add to this, this just a great post. It explains the  ‘release early, release often’ mantra very well.  As an entrepreneur who’s busy building/fine tuning and releasing his own application to the world, this is a great refresher.  I don’t know what I’m doing, the past 4 months lay out [...]

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Switching back to Google Apps from Rackspace

December 28, 2009

I’m switching to Google Apps Premier Edition today.
Why am I switching to Google Apps?
To stay abreast of the competition/services offered for my customers.  My consulting assignments put me in the position of “recommender”, I recommend technology and help shape technology budgets  for companies of all sizes, and in order for me to be able to [...]

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URLs or URis, What’s the difference?

December 4, 2009

A lot of people confuse the terms URLs and URIs. This morning, the PHP Advent post by David Sklar exemplified that. Paul Reinheimer already has a rebuttal for this, and I’m expecting many more.
I agree with Paul, David seems to be missing the point.

URI: Uniform Resource Identifier/Indicator
URL: Uniform Resource [...]

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Is the Tom Tom Car Kit for iPhone worth $119?

November 28, 2009

No. If this was twitter, I’d end it right there, but here’s my reasoning:
TomTom GPS Enhancer:
With this kit, the iPhone 3GS takes literally less than 3 seconds to locate my position. I tried it inside a parking garage, and on the highway, (i hard rebooted the phone both times). This is pretty nice, [...]

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Netbeans crashing under Snow Leopard – possible fix

November 27, 2009

If you’re using Netbeans in Snow Leopard, and are noticing a lot of random crashes, help is on the way. Thanks to an idea by Keith Casey, I decided to upgrade the JVM/JDK/JRE that comes with Snow Leopard. The default version that ships is currently 1.6.0.15, I upgraded to the developer preview of 1.6.0_17 [...]

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San Antonio gets 4G Coverage, thanks to Sprint and Clear

November 23, 2009

I’ve been waiting for 4G to come to San Antonio, TX for a long time. It’s finally here as of November 2009. What’s interesting is the way that’s available. I can either get it through Sprint with a 2 year contract, or I can get a no committment month to month plan from Clear. Being [...]

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