So recently I’ve been working with PHP 5.4 a LOT. Unfortunately Ubuntu (my main dev environment) is behind the times. So I’m resorting to compiling PHP manually. Not a daunting as it may first appear. The really tricky …
Rsync is a great tool but can be a pain if you have to jump through hoops to connect via ssh such as connecting via a different port. A simple solution is to use the -e flag (also knows as –rsh=COMMAND). This flag allows …
This morning I woke up to an email telling me that my Nexus7 that I had ordered 3 weeks ago was… “out for delivery”. I couldn’t contain my excitement. I sat patiently waiting by my door. Finally 11 o’clock rolls around …
If you want to register custom view helpers with a module you can do so by using the service location built into the Skeleton Application and creating a module config that looks something like. return array( …
So… With the release of beta 5 for Zend Framework 2 I thought it time for me to tidy up and fix a few modules I created back at beta 3. Now I’m a big fan of Twitter Bootstrap CSS framework as I’m sure a lot of other …
I recently had to do some load testing for a site recently that would allow me to test in excess of 100k requests in a 60 second period… So I decided to do some testing using JMeter as it seemed like a suitable tool for …