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Easing Launch Stress
Scenario: You have a large client who somewhere in the past decided you were the company to help with one part of their business. Over time they have established themselves as a provider of ‘Stuff’ by changing their business to suit the market – your company has grown and changed too. This particular client are [...]
Extending Prototype for Aborting Ajax Requests
An Ajax.Request is made to the server and the information that triggered the request is no longer valid. You wish to stop the Request to commence another. Steven has a solution from a long time ago :: Aborting Ajax requests (for prototype.js). Here it is extending the Ajax.Request object so you can call .abort on [...]
PHPUnit Installed on Mac OSX
I think I failed in every possible way setting this up, at least this guide should be exhaustive, it is how I felt making all these changes. Configure Pear Discover the channels for the pear install to run. The main channel and it also requires files from other repositories. sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de sudo pear [...]
The Production Server has Bad Code, and The Bad Code is Yours
I broke something today and I asked myself "What Would Rands Do?".
Five minutes before knocking off there is obviously a problem. That sinking feeling struck as soon as the words drifted across the partition. "A problem? But there can't be, I don't code in #Fail."
Test your Apache Configuration
We have all done it before. Changed the vhosts configuration, left a spelling mistake and restarted the server only to have everything die. Then I spend too much time trying to find my error, which doesn't look like an error.
So I don't forget, here is how to test.
Social Media and Short Attention… What was that again?
Here we are asking our kids to dedicate early life to school. To understand the world. To understand complex situations and interactions. While technology is getting simpler and interacting digitally is getting easier - the hardest lesson to learn is that digital does not translate well to real life.
Facilitating Technological Growth and Industrial Design
In where I continue my rant on Apple and their systems. This week focusing on the industrial design and lack of encouraging innovation.
Just because your product uses Open Standards does not mean that it is an Open System
Usually I am not one to complain about software companies and their fights for supremacy in each others markets. But I do feel the need to write about my thoughts on Apple, their decisions and modus operandi. Especially on the lack of flash support and their open systems.
GitHub Ignore standard symfony files/folders
I use OS X as a development environment for my home projects so there are many times when I am programming there is a need to stop the frustration caused by meddling Operating Systems. This is simple code for a Symfony 1.4 project and Git to ignore files that are not needed.
CakePHP : Toggle a BitWise status field
I had a problem. I have been using BitWise status indicators for sometime now, in fact after reading Mark Story’s article they have been a staple of development ever since. In my latest work there was a need to turn on or off an item from a menu. I came across this Nice Trick to [...]
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