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Category Archives: php
Multivariate Testing, PHP Frameworks, Plea for help.
I was curious if anyone has any experience with Multivariate (A/B) testing with PHP Frameworks. I found http://phpabtest.com/ yesterday, but I haven’t heard of anyone using it in production yet. Nor have I been able to gather how easily or well … Continue reading
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The Best Web Design, and Copywriting Reference. EVER.
I’ve been exchanging some emails with my good friend Bobby Freeman. We’ve been discussing some copy and design for a new project I’ve launched, and am looking to share with the rest of the world. He pointed me to the best … Continue reading
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Being Lean by accident, in 5th grade.
When I was growing up in India, we had to take “computer programming” courses in 5th grade. At that time they taught us a language called Logo . Making a turtle draw concentric circles was easy, so my friends and … Continue reading
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SQL Error with Symfony 1.4.4 and MySQL 5.5
I ran into an interesting bug/fact today while messing around with MySQL 5.5. It seems that in the DDL, you can’t say “Type=InnoDB|MyISAM|Foo” anymore. You have to say “Engine=InnoDB”. This will break your propel:build-all , or propel:build-all-load .. or if … Continue reading
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HipHop for PHP is not for you 60% of the time, everytime.
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 … Continue reading
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Installing the PHP SSH2 extension in Snow Leopard (10.6)
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 … Continue reading
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Managing WordPress and other PHP projects with Ruby
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 … Continue reading
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URLs or URis, What’s the difference?
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 … Continue reading
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Netbeans crashing under Snow Leopard – possible fix
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 … Continue reading
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Changing MySQL storage engine for one table in your Propel/Symfony project
I need one MyISAM table in my schema, I’m using Symfony 1.2 and Propel 1.3. As flexible as Symfony and it’s YAML files are, Propel currently doesn’t allow you to change the storage engine on the fly. You use the … Continue reading
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