Svn to Git
Today I've moved all of my SVN repositories over to GitHub. 5 private reps and 4 public ones. Two of which you may know: PHP.JS and System_Daemon.
Flush Memcached Using Bash
If you store application data in memcache, you may want to invalidate it once you deploy a new version to avoid corruption or weird results. There are several ways to do this but I recently tried one using nothing but...
Prepare for PHP 5.3
PHP 5.3 is a big leap forward for PHP and brings of a lot of neat features. However, big leaps can also mean big changes and potentially big breakage when it comes to backwards compatibiltiy.
Notes on CakeFest 3
Looking back at a great CakeFest in Berlin, I learned a lot about CakePHP and met many nice and inspiring people. Here are some conference notes I took that where particularly useful or new to me.
Create Youtube-Like IDs With PHP/Python/Javascript/Java/SQL
IDs are often numbers. Unfortunately there are only 10 digits to work with, so if you have a lot of records, IDs tend to get very lengthy. For computers that's OK. But human beings like their IDs as short as...