Most PHP developers utilizing MVC frameworks would argue that the best approach for models are classes with a varied number of getters and setters. After a long time working with PHP and especially MVC frameworks and data mining/retrieval, I am of a completely different opinion and I will discuss why.
Introduction The following is a quick start guide to getting up and running with Windows Azure and Blob storage using Java. First thing you’ll need to do is setup a Windows Azure account, you can do that here: https://www.windowsazure.com Install Azure Read more…
Foreword So the other day while building a Facebook application, I needed to get some information that I just couldn’t find any way to get other than through the use of FQL Needless to say, finding examples of FQL are Read more…
Foreword So I was developing a Facebook application and realized that once the content was rendered inside of Facebook, I kept getting scrollbars. This was terribly annoying being that I wanted to take up more vertical space, but didn’t want Read more…
Foreword I needed a way to get inside my work firewall from home. There was a DMZ linux machine that I could SSH to, but no VPN available. What I really needed was a way to configure the router/firewall, but Read more…
Forward So here’s the scenario, let’s say for the sake of argument that you have a CentOS linux box running with a single NIC, but you want to have 2 IP addresses assigned to this box (for whatever reason). The Read more…
If you ever find yourself doing a mysqldump on a large database, you may end up seeing this error: If this happens, just re-run the mysqldump command and add the –skip-lock-tables flag: MySQL sometimes tries to incorrectly lock tables on Read more…
Forword The following javascript examples and notation demonstrate a few alternatives to well known methods for common tasks. Advanced Notation Tilde Operator The tilde operator ~ literally equates to -(n+1). For example: Large Denary Numbers Large denary numbers can be Read more…
Foreword Absolutely positioned elements can be quite useful, but what if you have something centered or off to one side and you need to just nudge an absolutely positioned element. The following will show you a handy technique for moving Read more…
Foreword The following is a tutorial for creating PHP scripted daemons. All examples will be performed on CentOS linux. The daemon code itself will be written in PHP with a BASH script wrapper. Getting Started So to get started, let’s Read more…