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Category Archives: Coding
Remove MySQL from Mac OS X, Snow Leopard
Tweet If your system has a mishmash of MySQL installs like mine did earlier today, it makes sense to start with a clean slate. I had the default that comes with xcode, the version that comes with MAMP, and then … Continue reading
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Preliminary hierarchy of programming languages
Tweet A preliminary hierarchy of programming languages. Incomplete but I got most significant languages (for me, anyway). Comments very appreciated. I made this with GraphViz on my MacBook in a day. Programming Language Hierarchy v1 (1.2 MB PNG)
TwitterTranslate 2.0 available
Tweet New version of TwitterTranslate out today: it works with the new Twitter web interface shows you the original text if you click on the translation indicator below a tweet automatically translates any new tweets that show up on a … Continue reading
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My latest project: TwitterTranslate
Tweet Tonight I made this little Safari 5 extension: TwitterTranslate Pretty simple – it finds any foreign tweets on your Twitter feed and translates them to English, or Spanish, or Japanese, or whatever your native language is. Enjoy!
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PHP best practices #1: duplication is evil
Tweet I am very opinionated about my code. The source of most of my opinions is the DRY/DIE principal: Don’t Repeat Yourself / Duplication Is Evil. Take, for instance, a Human Resources application I worked on recently. It is … Continue reading
PHP Best Practices: Introduction
Tweet I started programming when I was about 12, did so continuously until I was 18, took a couple years off to be a kid again, and recently started programming again seriously (in professional, production, multiple-developer environments). I have … Continue reading
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Fancy command-line alarm for Mac OS X
Tweet I have a Calc exam in the morning. Instead of studying for it, I decided to program a command-line alarm for myself so I don’t sleep through the exam. It doesn’t help that my phone is MIA and I’ve … Continue reading
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MVC or just pretending?
Tweet I used to think I hated MVC. I realized in the past few months that MVC is great, but not many programmers actually adhere to it in the PHP world. A lot of PHP frameworks pay lip service to … Continue reading
PHP links of the day
Tweet Here are two helpful pages I discovered working today: RFC 822 compliant email validator for PHP: http://www.iamcal.com/publish/articles/php/parsing_email/ A bunch of handy regular expressions: http://www.roscripts.com/PHP_regular_expressions_examples-136.html (I’m using the currency regular expressions, but they all look handy)
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Journal system with list and theme features
Tweet I really like journaling. It’s how I process my thoughts. Often, it’s helpful for me to go back and review past thoughts I’ve had or ideas I’ve jotted down. This tends to become difficult if content isn’t marked up, … Continue reading