Bullet is a new PHP micro-framework with a unique functional approach to URL routing that allows for more flexibility and requires... View Article
I recently had some issues with Gearman tasks throwing exceptions and killing the whole Gearman daemon. This made it nearly... View Article
My second year speaking at Confoo was more fun than my first. This year I met a lot of new... View Article
Ran into this issue when setting up a new VPS for AutoRidge. This happens when using Nginx and PHP-FPM with... View Article
If you are getting the error: Couldn’t find any package whose name or description matched “php5-fpm” The instructions below are... View Article
Got a new iPhone 4S or recently upgraded your iPhone 4 or 3GS to IOS5 and noticing unusually high cellular... View Article
Building an app that needs to access the photo library but don’t have any photos in the iPhone simulator? No... View Article
One question I see a lot on the Appcelerator Titanium Developer Q&A is how to perform AJAX requests and/or work... View Article
When using the excellent formidable library to handle file uploads, I needed to get a count of the number of... View Article
Chicago – May 24-27 php|tek in Chicago was fun as always. It is the best PHP conference I have ever... View Article
There are many things that are not immediately obvious when working with Appcelerator’s Titanium platform. Displaying a large image with... View Article
I just released a new iPhone SEO app and Android SEO app called SEMTab SEO Pro. The basic idea is to... View Article
The age old private vs protected debate has been re-ignited in the PHP community recently following the decision of Doctrine2... View Article
This post comes with a bit of a delay, as it is already three months into the year, but as... View Article
I recently encountered this error on Disposeamail – a free disposable email site of mine that uses MySQL heavily for... View Article
If you lose or forget your Android keystore file alias that is used to build APK files for distribution (like... View Article
Like any web developer who has been sitting on the sidelines watching this mobile explosion happen in front of my... View Article
Customize AndroidManifest.xml: https://appcelerator.lighthouseapp.com/projects/32238/tickets/315-android-build-doesnt-handle-version-for-androidmanifestxml http://developer.appcelerator.com/doc/mobile/android-custom-androidmanifest Android Versioning Guidelines: http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/versioning.html
Closures are a new language-level feature that has been added to php 5.3, along with namespaces, late static binding, and a... View Article
Most developers are coming from a background with relational database-specific experience, and then trying out some new NoSQL databases like... View Article
I’ve spent the past few weeks here at work researching and playing with NoSQL databases (and especially MongoDB) for a... View Article
Multi-byte characters can cause quite a few headaches for the unsuspecting webmaster. Sometimes all you need to do to figure... View Article
PHP provides two built-in functions to retrieve properties of a given class – get_object_vars and get_class_vars. Both these functions behave... View Article
Packt Publishing announced the winners for their annual Open Source CMS Award in November, and since then I have been... View Article