I did a clean install on my Macbook Pro this morning, part of the clean install means, re-downloading things like MySQL. When I installed it, I noticed that the pref-pane wouldn’t start MySQL. Even when it asked for my admin password. I thought maybe it was a boot up issue, so I rebooted, and got… Read more »
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On HTML Sanitization, What, Why, How
This is a very good article discussing the different HTML Sanitizers available in the PHP community, what they mean, and the general state of things. Even the WordPress sanitizer (Kses) is included in this review. I really recommend you read this before you start building your own mini cms.
SQL Error with Symfony 1.4.4 and MySQL 5.5
I ran into an interesting bug/fact today while messing around with MySQL 5.5. It seems that in the DDL, you can’t say “Type=InnoDB|MyISAM|Foo” anymore. You have to say “Engine=InnoDB”. This will break your propel:build-all , or propel:build-all-load .. or if you manually try to execute the sql from data/sql/*. You’ll get the following error: You… Read more »
HipHop for PHP is not for you 60% of the time, everytime.
My apologies to Ron Burgundy for the title of the post, but I’m just a fan of the wisest man to ever live. As Marco and Illia and countless others have said, unless you don’t work with PHP or were in a coma, Facebook released HipHop for PHP , it’s open source, it’s awesome, it… Read more »
Changing MySQL storage engine for one table in your Propel/Symfony project
I need one MyISAM table in my schema, I’m using Symfony 1.2 and Propel 1.3. As flexible as Symfony and it’s YAML files are, Propel currently doesn’t allow you to change the storage engine on the fly. You use the storage engine as specified in propel.ini. As discussed in the Propel FAQ . So, the… Read more »
Building PHP 5.3 packages on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) for Apache 2
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 not everything I wanted. The post I refer to specifically Installing PHP 5.3 on Ubuntu… Read more »
Talking to multiple databases with Symfony 1.2
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 need to get into, but I do need to interface with the data, since the… Read more »
Redefining Spam, in the age of Twitter
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 filter for your Twitter account.” At SXSW, I got the opportunity to talk to Guy… Read more »
Cost of clouds, Mosso/Slicehost vs AWS
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 adapt to changes in the market. Though the $100/month Mosso offering is mentioned (this site… Read more »
Using Subversion with Mosso
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, I tried it recently, and got exactly the results I wanted. I even had the… Read more »
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