If you use an automated testing platform (such as Jenkins) you may have come across the problem where you need to manually create a new database (and sometimes user) every time you configure a different build or a different host. For small projects it’s not much of a chore, but for larger projects (or complicated […]
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There is a very quick and simple way to sort an array with version number keys in PHP.
When I was setting up a new Zend Framework application today I encountered an interesting message: [email protected]:~/workspace/application$ zf create project ./ applicationCreating project at /home/valorin/workspace/applicationNote: This command created a web project, for more information setting up your VHOST, please see docs/READMETesting Note: PHPUnit was not found in your include_path, therefore no testing actions will be […]
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Simple Bash keep-alive script
I came across an interesting issue at work today. We have a PHP script which monitors a socket on our phone system to save call logs into a database. It’s pretty simple, but it needs to run constantly to catch all the phone calls going through the system. So I did some goggling and found […]
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Do you use Version Control?
I wrote this article for my work’s public blog – go there and post comments so I look cool 🙂
This is a post I made back in September of 2007 on my old website. I have brought it across to here as I still feel it is relevant and useful. My experience and use of Javascript has grown immensly since I originally made the post, but I still believe that it should be used […]