Flexbox cross browser
Despite having been around for a while and having been through a couple of revisions, its support across browsers can vary greatly. From “Candidate Recommendation” on Chrome/Opera, “legacy flexbox” on Firefox and no …
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Creating Custom Routes in Silverstripe 3.1
We wanted to create a Route to our custom Products Controller in our products module for SilverStripe 3.1, such as: “http://www.examplesite.com/products/” However looking at the Controller Documentation it was not clear …
Disabling Cache in Silverstripe 3.1
While working with Silverstripe we found ourselves having to run “?flush=1” a lot to clear the Cache. To switch it off, while you work, add the following to your mysite/_config.php: …
Set up SilverStripe 3.1 using only Git (No Composer)
We recently tried to use composer to set up SilverStripe 3.1, but ended up with a dependency nightmare. In order to work around this we decided to make use of Git submodules. First set up your Git repository and run: git …
Enabling MYSQL_CLIENT_INTERACTIVE with Doctrine 2 on Rackspace Cloud Database
We recently ran into problem using Doctrine 2 connecting to a Rackspace Cloud Database using the MySqli Driver. Problem: We have a long running PHP script that can sometimes run for hours at a time whilst processing …
Installing PECL extensions for Zend Server 6
Recently we have revisited using Zend Server for some of our projects and decided to give the new version 6 a chance to prove itself. Overall its a big improvement over version 5. There are still some things that are …
Better Output for MySQL Select Command Using \G
If you ever find yourself using MySQL via command line and end up with something like this: And thought there must be another way, well here it is: Use \G instead of ; at the end of your select command. For example: …
Glorious Gluster - How to setup GlusterFS on Rackspace Cloud and Ubuntu 12.10
A few of our projects recently called for a distributed file-system that provided high availability and redundancy. After a tip off from a fellow techie and a quick browse around the net it appeared that a solution …
Docblock, Oh Docblock, wherefore art thou Docblock (hint: Zend Optimizer Plus lost them)
tl;dr> I make a terrible assumption about Zend Optimizer+ and am corrected by Dominic in the comments; Terrible post title I know but its the best I could come up with. I’ve just come up for air after spending the …
Our Redmine install died, We all cried!
We have been using redmine for quite a long time and a few months ago attempted to upgrade from 1.3 to 2.something. Unfortunately I (quite typically) borked the installation and since then its been hobbling along after …