Its been ages since I last posted anything new here, ever since i’ve been promoted from a consultant to one of the company’s executives, its been a non stop stream of work. In a way its a very exhilarating experience, me trying to cope with the new role while trying to balance several different hats as [...]
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2 Jul 10
16 Jan 10
Reading this blog post entitled, “3 reasons to stay in a big company“, I can’t help but comment about some of the points the author made. A brief background first, i’ve worked with some big companies in the past, but all have left a bad taste in my mouth for reasons I will point out [...]
13 Jan 10
Been struggling to get Redmine working with Mongrel instead of using Apache + FastCGI (been using this setup for while till this defect kept on bugging me and my teammates: http://www.redmine.org/boards/2/topics/5864), when the cause was simply a bug with cpanel’s generated .htaccess file for the subdomain internal proxy redirect.
15 Nov 09
Can anybody recommend a good SyntaxHighlighter for WordPress? I’ve been using SyntaxHighlighter Plus for over 1year already, and its been always giving me headaches on character escaping with html/php codes. Now its been refusing to cooperate with indenting Java codes.
15 Sep 09
Finally bought a smartphone, first time to have one actually. My former phone is a Sony Ericsson K810i, used it for around 2 years plus plus. Very sturdy phone but the mediocre support for connectivity is really hurting me since I need a good 3g connection for my mobile office. Initially was planning to buy [...]
10 Sep 09
Been giving this alot of thought lately. What to use for my next project. Ever since symfony 1.2′s move to Propel 1.3, the major argument of speed against Propel has been solved with its migration out of creole and into PDO. So speed is definitely at par with Doctrine, but the curious side of me [...]
8 Sep 09
Unit testing is tedious, but it has saved my bacon so many times already that even though it eats my time I still religiously create unit test cases for every important business logic use cases. I’ve been using Spring’s integration with JUnit and its very cool transaction support for test cases. Unfortunately with this approach, [...]
25 Jun 09
Just discovered a quick way to do a screenshot based on a url http://www.websnapr.com/ They even have a cool and easy to use api!
12 May 09
19 Feb 09
This is the first bash script I wrote, I used crontab to periodically backup and compress a mysqldb in a shared hosting environment #!/bin/sh user=testdbuser password=testdb dbname=testdb location=~/db_backups ts=$(date ‘+%Y%m%d-%H%M’) mysqldump -u$user -p$password –opt $dbname > $location/temp-$ts.sql cd $location tar -cvzf $dbname-db-$ts.tar.gz temp-$ts.sql rm -f temp-$ts.sql
