Feb

28

Zend Server Community Edition for Mac OS X – MySQL problem

February 28, 2010 | 8 Comments

I switched my dev. environnement at work from MAMP to Zend Server Community Edition a while ago but was disappointed that my Mac Book could not migrate because of a MySql error. Every time I would try to run the server, I would get the following error: 1ERROR! MySQL PID file could not be found! [...]

Feb

22

Where are your users from, part 2

February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment

Recently, I wrote about geolocalisation of your users/visitors based on the IP to Country table. After using it for a couple of months, I found it painful to have to regularly update the table (even if some people came up with an automatic work around based on PERL scripts for example). So, I decided to find another [...]

Feb

14

CodeColorer List of supported languages

February 14, 2010 | 2 Comments

A very quick post to list the languages supported by Code Colorer which I use on this blog. Everytime I write I find myself wondering which language is supported and how I should write it out for the plugin to work so here it is, for the record: ABAP ActionScript ActionScript 3.0 Ada Apache AppleScript [...]

Feb

14

Enable Full Text Search with MySQL

February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Before you jump and get a real Search Engine for your website, you might try the MySQL full text search feature. It is incredibly easy to set up. All you need to do is setup the table and fields to be searchable as full text with the following command: 1ALTER TABLE Table_Name ADD FULLTEXT(field1, field2); [...]

Feb

13

Setting up Code Igniter

February 13, 2010 | 2 Comments

A few months ago, we jumped into Teeorama, a PHP based online tee-shirt store front end for Spreadshirt. We finally completed the project and we’re planning on opening it to the public tomorrow. By the way, if you feel you could use a new Geek shirt, please head over to teeorama.com before reading on… When [...]

Feb

11

Code Syntax Highlighter for Open Office

February 11, 2010 | 2 Comments

Today I tried a new task at work. Instead of coding, I wrote about coding. This is a scary thing to attempt, especially if your writing is aimed for people from the other side of the wall. Those who look with suspicion at your screen when all you have showing is a dark console window, [...]