Category Archives: web

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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Time Warner Cable of San Antonio, Monopolies and why they suck. – UPDATED

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Vid Luther

Why Monopolies Suck, arrogance of Time Warner Cable. Update (May 12th 2009) I’m leaving the original post up, but in case anyone else stumbles upon this, I’d like to share that the issue has been resolved to my liking with … 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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Using Subversion with Mosso

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Vid Luther

Thanks to Expandrive . You can now use Subversion (SVN) on websites hosted at Mosso . The idea of mounting a directory you’d normally ftp/sftp to, and then using SVN on it, at first seemed oddly implausible to me. But, … Continue reading →

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Using your Mac as a local web development environment.

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Vid Luther

My last post was for all users, technical and non. This post is for the techies who know me, and are switching. Some are coming from Windows, some from Linux, some are designers who need to do some local development. … Continue reading →

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