Downgrading PHPUnit from 3.6 to 3.5
Recently I had to rebuild my computer, and decided to install Linux Mint 12 (Lisa), which is a very lean installation - for my taste that is.
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15 Jan2012
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09 Dec2011
Change the encoding of a MySQL database to UTF8
As applications grow, so do their audiences. In this day and age, one cannot assume that all the consumers of a web based application will live in a particular region and use only one language. Even if the developer assumes that one country will be served by the particular web application, there are instances that the
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22 Nov2011
Fast serialization of data in PHP
Serialization is the process of converting a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored and “resurrected” later in the same or another computer environment. source
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13 Nov2011
Git pre-commit - Another check to ensure clean code
Throughout my career I have been using various revision control systems. I started off with Visual SourceSafe which I thought at the time was great, primarily because of the small size of our team and the ease of use though the Visual Basic’s IDE.
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11 Nov2011
New beginnings – sleep(6566400)
It has been a very long time since I last blogged.