Installing Phusion Passenger on WHM/cPanel
Login to your server and switch to root (yes, you need root access). gem install passenger export APXS2=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs export APR_CONFIG=/usr/local/apache/bin/apr-1-config...
View ArticleSymfony 1.4 admin generator sort on custom column
If you use the symfony 1.4 admin generator with doctrine you may notice that the column headings in the list view are links that enable you to sort your results by that column. If you customize the...
View ArticleUsing CURL through a SOCKS proxy to post XML data
Recently we had to communicate with an API that requires we post XML from a white-listed IP address. This made it difficult to develop against since the only way we could get a response from the API...
View ArticleWordPress: Adding custom boxes to posts
I stumbled on a great post about how to custom boxes for your wordpress posts. In this case it was promo boxes, but it could be used anytime you want to relate certain custom types of content to your...
View ArticleWordPress 3.1 sortable admin tables
With the release of 3.1, WordPress enabled list-type admin screen enhancements to provide sortable columns for list-type screens and better pagination. This begs the question, how do we make our custom...
View ArticleWordPress embed html5 video, encoding
My current favorite plugin for embedding video is VideoJS WordPress Plugin which uses the HTML5 Video Player VideoJS. After you install the plugin, you can use a shortcode to embed your video in...
View ArticleThe Hit List for Mac Safari Extension
My favorite task management apps for mac, The Hit List by The Potion Factory, finally came out of beta yesterday after a very long wait. One of the new features, besides the biggest enhancement (iOS...
View ArticleSuggestions for Free Websites
Friends often ask us for recommendations on how to set up their own personal websites, but don’t have the budget to build something custom. Here is my take on it. It’s hard to find good, free (or even...
View ArticleMac OS 10.7 Lion PHP Ruby upgrade notes
A new notes regarding my local development environment after upgrading to Lion this morning. 1. mycrypt extension is no longer installed. To get this working I had to update/reinstall Developer Tools...
View ArticleImport SVN project into Git
Recently we converted a few SVN projects to Git. We used a method that converts svn authors to git authors and then uploads the repository to github. It also maintains tags and branches. Here is how we...
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