Monthly Archives: November 2009

Windows Vista / “restricted mode”. Why I will not purchase Windows 7.

Today Windows Vista booted into “restricted mode”, all I could access was FireFox (my default browser). See when Vista came out I went down to the store and picked up a copy of “Ultimate” for $300. Later I found out … Continue reading

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PHP Pitfalls, common causes of bugs

Crazy E_NOTICE behavior . Turns out $foo = null; count( $foo['bar'] ); is Valid! .. Where as.. $foo = array(); count( $foo['bar'] ); Will blow up your application in your face (will trigger E_NOTICE errors ). Which we actually want … Continue reading

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PHP Auto Test – Automatically monitor your project for changes and run your unit tests

I read about stakeout.rb but read that it might not work on windows. Rather then waste time even trying I just ported it to PHP, and started to make it object oriented. I have posted the code on devnetwork Using … Continue reading

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Starting Stopping and Restarting Cruise Control

I just spent the last hour trying to figure out how to start/stop cruise control as needed. I am setting up cruise controll with phpundercontrol and I was able to get the web interface to load, but using kill all … Continue reading

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We should have “table interfaces”

When doing concrete table inheritance, it would be neat if we had table interfaces, like some sort of integrity constraint that made sure tables adhered to the same fields and column types. If I extend a class and accidentally make … Continue reading

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Just imported my SVN history on data shuffler into google code

Now anyone can checkout, review changes, or browse source code online. Hopefully this will be the first step of many in turning data shuffler into a real open source project. For those who do not know data shuffler implements the … Continue reading

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Mantis Time Tracking

The new RC for Mantisbt has a basic time tracking system. I found the documentation however did not detail how to actually enable the time tracking system After seeing dhx’s comment here: http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=10552 I figured out is an option you … Continue reading

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