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      • BugFeatures blog open for comments!
        07/30/09
        I have enabled comments on the blog after a few requests for it... play nice!

      • Symfony and PhpBB3 integration
        07/30/09
        I recently had to integrate a forum into a Symfony 1.0 app and, having selected PhpBB3 for the job, went about writing an authentication module. Here's how...

        1. Create the auth module

        Lets say I want to call the module 'symfony'. I create a file called auth_symf

      • Something nice to say about EFI-X
        07/23/09
        A lot of people moan about EFI-X so I thought I'd tell a good story. I got my EFI-X chip about 6 months ago. After a botched OS X 10.5.7 update the chip fried. I sent it back. In the interim I toyed with every OSx86 kernel out there without any success. Then today my chip arrived back from Taiw

      • Send JWPlayer flashvars from shadowbox
        07/21/09
        Shadowbox is a great way to play FLV videos in a lightbox, but it is a little shortsighted in terms of the parameters it expects you'll want to pass onto JWPlayer. So here's a little workaround I came up with.

        If you want to send a playlist position and repeat variable you need

      • Die IE6 DIE6!
        07/14/09
        I look forward to the day IE6 is wiped from the face of the internet like doomsday cults await their rapturous glory. I have read rumours - and I tend to agree - that IE6 is costing the world economy millions of dollars - I would like to see the figure properly researched, it could be billions!
      • OnChange Radio Buttons - Symfony, Prototype and me
        07/12/09
        Using Symfony's observe_field() on radio buttons will work only the first time the value is changed. If a user changes the values more than once the onchange event stops firing. To get around this you need to use the onclick event instead (as observer_field() uses onchange - and to support keyb

      • MySQL Replication - what to do when a slave fails
        07/07/09
        Thought this was worth posting as it could save someone a lot of grief. I had a slave MySQL server stop updating without warning. A SELECT SLAVE STATUS showed there was an error due to an existing record. This would have occurred when a SELECT DATA INFILE populated 50,000 records and things went a l

      • Using gmail SMTP with Swift Mailer
        07/05/09
        Want your web app to send email from your gmail or google apps hosted email account? This way your messages are stored in your sent box. Here's how to do it with a failover to localhost (in case there is a problem with the gmail server or authentication)...

        try{
        $c

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