Archive for the ‘ Programming ’ Category
Yahoo! added a PHP section to their impressive developer network. The PHP Developer Center has some good content already, focusing heavily on web services and XML. There aren’t too many things that are new for me, but the web service caching looks pretty interesting. I also really like that Yahoo! makes many of their web service [ READ MORE ]
I spent a lot more time than necessary today trying to figure out how to use Yahoo’s Ajax object. The first minor setback occurred because I didn’t know that the callback variable MUST be defined after the success and failure functions. I am still not really sure why, but now that I know how it [ READ MORE ]
If you have any interest in web UI you have certainly already seen the Yahoo! User Interface Blog, but let me be the millionth person to say how awesome it is. Yahoo!’s Design Patterns Library (Creative Commons Attribution-By license, sweet!) and User Interface Library (BSD open source license) are going to be amazingly helpful. I like [ READ MORE ]
For some reason installing Ruby on Rails on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) is difficult. I have installed it on about 5 different systems and every time run into trouble. I had been putting off installing Rails on the laptop because it was working on the iMac and I could just use it there when [ READ MORE ]
I was just showing Rachel how to use del.icio.us (her account and mine) and we saw that 17 people have already added Swap-bot to their bookmarks! Speaking of swap-bot, I am doing some maintenance work on it today. [ READ MORE ]
It has been a week since I released MySQL Backup to the world and I am happy to report there isn’t a new version. The original version I wrote last week is working perfectly. Beyond the fact that I made it, I would recommend using MySQL Backup because it simple to use and simple to accidently [ READ MORE ]
I finally found some time to write a simple script that backs up my MySQL databases on a nightly basis and emails the results to a gmail account. Not only does this mean all the data on the server is safer, but I have something to share. Try it out if you are looking for [ READ MORE ]
I realize this probably isn’t the place I will ever get the answer I am looking for, but just in case… I have a MySQL table with a primary key index on id. I would like to, for example, retrieve items with IDs 1, 7, and 4 in that order. I have tried SELECT * FROM my_table [ READ MORE ]
Tonight I ventured into the city (San Francisco) alone to find the Apple Store for my computer needs and Chipotle for my withdrawals. The trip satisfied both. It had been at least six weeks since I was fortunate enough to go to either place (and I missed them both). The cheapest way to get to the [ READ MORE ]
I have my first business-related trip next week and I am looking forward to it. I will be in San Francisco at the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo at the Hyatt Regency. I will also be staying there, but hopefully have a chance to get out of the hotel and maybe even into the city. My dad [ READ MORE ]