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Renaming file extensions with bash script

Development 30 April 2009 | 1 Comment

A couple of weeks ago I had to rename the file extension of several view scripts from html (from my own mvc framework) to phtml (zend framework). I found, as always, bash to be my friend. for i in * do ( file $i | grep html ) && mv $i $(echo $i | sed [...]

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Would I Pass the Zend PHP5 Certification Exam?

Web development 16 April 2009 | Comments Off

I have just used 20 minutes on testing my php5 skills before taking the actual certification exam in the future. As expected, by me at least, I lack some skills in arrays, string manipulation and regular expressions. I knew this. I always look up details when I use this. Database access questions are all based [...]

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Could MemcacheQ be Used For Cometd?

Web development 7 April 2009 | Comments Off

I have been wondering for a couple of weeks would it be possible to use MemcacheQ as a kind of backend for Cometd? The reason I find it interesting is that sending message to the queue(s) would be as easy as memcache_set($memcache_obj, $memcache_queue_name, $msg, 0, 0); In other words easy as pie. Since there are [...]

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New Versions of Dojo and Plugd Released

Web development 1 April 2009 | Comments Off

I have not posted for about a week now, the main reason is that I am working on something very exciting, which will be features here in the comming days, if all works out. Today, while reading the most recent posts on Ajaxian, I found the announcement of the Dojo 1.3 release. Read the announcement [...]

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OpenID and OAuth for SSO

Business,Development 24 March 2009 | Comments Off

In my previous post about SSO for webapplications I have missed the obvious – why not use OpenId and OAuth. It is important however to know the difference between the two. OpenId is used for authentication – is the user who he says he is – and OAuth is used for authorization is this specific [...]

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New Application? Just Write The Damn Thing

Business,Web development 23 March 2009 | Comments Off

I have been getting a thought into my head the last couple of days. I have been talking a lot about things surrounding web application building the last weeks. Primarily it has been about all the things that are common to most of the application ideas that I have. While reading about Scaling Twitter though, [...]

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