Snow Leopard / MAMP Pro mySQL woes
After wiping my computer and installing 10.6 from scratch, my local php/mysql would not work at all. The biggest problem was that I was receiving an error when trying to connect to mySQL “Lost...
View ArticleMatchbox is Back! So Long Modular Extensions…
So, for once, my procrastination has paid off! A while back i was complaining, in the most polite way of course, about the lack of development of matchbox. A few days ago Zacharias released Matchbox...
View ArticlejQuery Plugin/Widget Quick Screencasts
I have been toying with the idea of putting up a series of 5-10 minute screencasts. To start I am going to focus on the default jQuery UI widgets, and then pick and choose the most commonly used...
View ArticleCodeIgniter Textmate Bundle
I Know this is a few days old already, but its just too good of a tool to not post in as many places as possible. There is now a CodeIgniter Textmate bundle avaialable! If you are like me, you have a...
View ArticleMoved to Mediatemple
As of today, this site is now hosted on MediaTemple’s GS! I found a coupon code online for 20% for life, so now i’m only paying $16/month for all my personal hosting needs (up to 100 domains). The...
View ArticleCodeigniter Simpletest Modular Extensions Suite
Update… I am still having issues with MB - and apparently others are too view thread. So, I am once again switching back to HMVC / Modular Extensions.. With that switch I am also converting the...
View ArticlePersonalized User Vanity Url’s in Codeigniter
This may seem an obvious solution, but after doing some digging, i didn’t find anyone else writing about it. What I tried to accomplish was personalized urls like http://www.site.com/philpalmieri....
View ArticleAsinine Publishers Killing Kindle and other E-Books
I know this has nothing to do with programming, but this is one of those things that drives me crazy. I have a Kindle, I love my Kindle, I love reading before bed on My Kindle, then picking up where i...
View ArticleIIS PHP cURL Authorize.net SSL
I’ve been working on a checkout system for a client site… Everything works well on our local and dev servers, but when we launched to the production box, which happens to be IIS, the checkout bombs....
View ArticleCustom Google Maps Pin with Numbers or Letters on v3 API
I recently worked on a Google maps project that needed to have a typical list of locations with corresponding pins on the map. There were a ton of recommendation for using the now deprecated google...
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