Category Archives: php

iStockPhoto Logos validates Brandstack marketplace?

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Vid Luther

A new concept for iStockPhoto called iStockPhoto Logos has been announced as a direct competitor to Brandstack. Will iStockPhoto Logos fail again? Techcrunch just announced iStockPhoto Logos? . It seems this is a great idea that was pioneered by Brandstack. … Continue reading →

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Git Pre-commit hooks for Symfony projects.

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Vid Luther

Graham Christensen and I have been working together on a project for a little while, it’s using the Symfony Framework . Graham explains the problem really well with a good solution to it. I’d like to expand on the subject … Continue reading →

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Building PHP 5.3 packages on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) for Apache 2

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Vid Luther

Goal: Build a PHP 5.3 package, that I can install and upgrade on new ubuntu slices as needed, without having to compile on each box. This is an amalgamation of different blog posts that did certain things really well, but … Continue reading →

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Talking to multiple databases with Symfony 1.2

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Vid Luther

Notes on using Symfony with multiple databases. I’m building a new application in symfony, and I need to use some data from an existing application written by another developer. I can’t just extend the existing application for reasons we don’t … Continue reading →

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Subversion 1.6 branching and merging, caveats, and how-to

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Vid Luther

This is a quick reminder/note for myself more than anything else, but if you’re using Subversion 1.6, merging is a bit easier than it used to be, and all of Google’s search results will either tell you how to keep … Continue reading →

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New Logo Design by Brandstack™

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Vid Luther

I’d like to announce some changes to The PHP Cult. New Domain: The name will be changing to Third Party Code, if you’ve known me for a while, that’s the name under which I’ve been conducting business, yet almost everything … Continue reading →

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Another failure in Web page styling and design.

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Vid Luther

This one comes from Microsoft, and their Silverlight install page. Since I already have silverlight installed, I can’t show what the actual download link looked like, but it wasn’t obvious at first. Why do people still not pay attention to … Continue reading →

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Symfony, PHP, OS X and how not to be an idiot. (can't find driver mysql) error

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Vid Luther

Leopard 10.5.7 now comes with PHP 5.2.8, I wasn’t aware of this, and it’s caused me a great amount of agony and hair pulling over the past few days. So, for those of you running XAMPP and recently upgraded to … Continue reading →

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Redefining Spam, in the age of Twitter

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Vid Luther

For the past few months, I’ve been helping my friend develop and market Philtro . We’ve gone through various iterations of the elevator pitch for it, and the one that seems to be kinda working, is: “It’s like a spam … Continue reading →

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Cost of clouds, Mosso/Slicehost vs AWS

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Vid Luther

Marco Tabini has a great post discussing the cost of the cloud, and the current state of affairs. He calls for a simpler cloud platform, not just in terms of cost, but ease of use and products and services that … Continue reading →

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