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php: holy T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM error batman

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I got a T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM error in php a few days ago. I feel special as this appears to be considered an elusive error, but then again I’ve been feeling special since yellow buses. heres what created my error : if(empty(SOME_SYSTEM_DEFINED_CONST)) You […]


install build tools on centos 5

Monday, July 7th, 2008
When you first install centos 5, you’ll notice your unable to build from source (make / make install) On ubuntu theres a package called build-tools that contains everything you need to build from source. On centos you install them individually : yum install gcc gcc-c++ autoconf automake rpm-build make which libtool Or install everything you’ll need […]


php security in a nutshell

Friday, May 9th, 2008
I have a friend I’m teaching foundation security to. This post is for him, but also as a protest to some of the materials I’ve found when looking for reference material for him. Security at it’s simplest form is common sense. ask yourself, how can I make sure I get exactly what I want? How do […]


I Was Sams Reeses

Thursday, May 8th, 2008
After months trying to figure out a name to use for releasing the code thats been sitting in my head: I Was Sams Reeses came to be while working on bacon 100%. So keep an eye out for it, the preview of bacon should be going sometime within the next 6 weeks ( It better […]


Concept: encryption / sercurity based on the dod concept

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
So last night I decided it would be pretty cool and take the information access process from the DOD and figure out how you could apply them to a php application. After a few hours spec’ing out the system i got to coding. I now have a quick and easy class I call Cryption. Its built […]


configuring wp-cache to work with apc

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Having issues getting wp-cache and apc to play nice? So was mark, luckily he found the answer so I can link to him APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is great for WordPress. It caches the compiled WordPress PHP files and greatly speeds up subsequent loads. I even wrote a WordPress plugin to make WordPress store its objects in APC instead […]


Introducing the Google AJAX Translation WordPress Plugin

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Keep an eye on this project. libin at libinpan.com has started a wordpress plugin to translate your text using ajax and google’s translation service Google just released a new API yesterday: Google AJAX Language API. AJAX Language API is built on top of Google Translate, it current supports 13 languages and 29 translation pairs. It is new […]


Install yum and subversion on media temple dv 3.5

Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Just upgraded one of my clients servers to dv 3.5. dv 3.5 uses centos 5 so when you install yum you’ll need to use that version  rpm -Uvh mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5.noarch.rpm Subversion is now included in the developer tools package. Login to your account center and install developer tools from there. via hello, hellm 


deploying rails made simple : Deploying Rails From Scratch

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I spent a good bit of this summer working on websites for ApacheCon US 2007 and OS Summit Asia 2007 which will be in Atlanta and Hong Kong this fall. (You should attend!) There’s a whole long sad story behind the Apache conference websites, but I’ll spare you that (for now). Instead, I wanted to […]


How to: Install electroserver on media-temple dv and similar centos setups

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Before you start Before starting anything you should be sure that you have the developer tools package installed. If your not sure, then you don’t. No worries: submit a request to install the developer tools package and you’ll be ready in about 45min to a hour. Get started first login as root next download electroserver: wget www.electro-server.com/downloads/builds/ElectroServer_4_0_4_linux.rpm next install the rpm: […]