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Creating a tar gzip Directory

RayRay — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:50:26 +0000

I always forget how to use tar to create a .tar.gz file. While yes, man pages will provide this info, it’s far quicker to search online. To make it easy for me find, and anyone else, here it is:

Creating at tar gzip tar -czf new_tar_gzip_file.tar.gz /thedirectory_to_tar_gzip

If you want to preserve the permission on the files . . . → Read More: Creating a tar gzip Directory

Kohana 3 Routing – Part 2: Dynamic Routes and Default Values

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:27:01 +0000

Part 1 | Part 2

In Part 1 of these articles we learned to created a simple static route in Kohana. In this part we’ll build on the basic routing to make parameters passed in the URL available to the action function.

Basic Parameters

Passing parameters into kohana from the URL is a fairly straightforward . . . → Read More: Kohana 3 Routing – Part 2: Dynamic Routes and Default Values

Kohana 3 Routing – Part 1: Static routes and Subdirectories

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:38:11 +0000

Part 1 | Part 2

The complexity of Kohana routing is really not as daunting as it first appears–especially if you’ve the leisure to browse the cleanly written, well organized code. However, for those who lack the time (or desire) to parse libraries, Kohana can present some stumbling blocks to a newbie early on the . . . → Read More: Kohana 3 Routing – Part 1: Static routes and Subdirectories

PDO with MySQL DB Usage Example

RayRay — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:36:37 +0000

Overview of Examples

This is just a quick example on using PDO for connecting to a MySQL DB in your PHP code. There are just a few high level reasons why I recommend using PDO, which I’ll go into detail in later post, but for now at a high level PDO:

Encourages use good Object Oriented programming Provides . . . → Read More: PDO with MySQL DB Usage Example

Bluetooth Problems on OSX Leopard with Mighty Mouse and Apple Wireless Keyboard

RayRay — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:54:57 +0000

Update 2009-10-18: It seems like this is no longer an issue for me with Snow Leopard. Don’t know why, but it stopped happening on my MacBook once I upgraded. I got a new iMac at work and installed Snow Leopard with the free upgrade disk that came with it. I have the same setup, a mighty . . . → Read More: Bluetooth Problems on OSX Leopard with Mighty Mouse and Apple Wireless Keyboard

Configuring PHP on OS X Leopard: the Gritty Details (Part 2)

RayRay — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:15:18 +0000

This is the second part of a series which reviews in-depth the process of building a PHP environment on OS X Leopard. Please read Part 1 of this series before continuing.

A Little about PHPBefore building anything new, let’s look at what we already have. OS X Leopard comes with PHP already installed as both the . . . → Read More: Configuring PHP on OS X Leopard: the Gritty Details (Part 2)

Configuring PHP on OS X Leopard: the Gritty Details (Part 1)

RayRay — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Introduction

If you’ve used PHP for development on OS X long enough, you’ve probably run into a few headaches (especially if your on a 64-bit system). Maybe it was trying to enable GD support or use Xdebug, but at some point things went crazy. There are many articles online dealing with fixes to individual issues (like activating . . . → Read More: Configuring PHP on OS X Leopard: the Gritty Details (Part 1)

Function ereg() is deprecated Error in Drupal 6.x with PHP 5.3

RayRay — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

If you updated your PHP to 5.3 and you run Drupal 6.x you will notice that you get some odd errors like:

Function ereg() is deprecated in…

This is not a Drupal issue as it is noted by the Drupal site that it does not yet support PHP 5.3 and there have been new error flags . . . → Read More: Function ereg() is deprecated Error in Drupal 6.x with PHP 5.3

ScribeFire and Deepest Sender: Simple, Fast, and Easy to Use Bloggin Client

RayRay — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:52:54 +0000

I don’t normally write reviews, but anything that accelerates my productivity has to get props. As I’m primary a coder, I’ve not done a great deal of blogging so using the web interface for my blog (WordPress’s wp-admin page) was enough to get me by. Now that I’m writing significantly more, the web interface has gotten . . . → Read More: ScribeFire and Deepest Sender: Simple, Fast, and Easy to Use Bloggin Client

GD for PHP on OS X Leopard

RayRay — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:16:55 +0000

Before rambling off into a long story, the easy solution is here: http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

Marc Liyanage has done an excellent job putting together a package that will update your OS X installed Apache to use his PHP module configured with most of the common extensions. As noted by the name of this post, GD was the missing extension which . . . → Read More: GD for PHP on OS X Leopard