I’ve already posted some notes about compiling PHP 5.2 on OS X 10.5, but I came across a couple more issues today as I recompiled the binary with soap support. After searching around a bit I finally remembered that I needed to manually edit the make file in order to get PHP compiling correctly, I found the edit that needed to be made here…
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I use a combination of Trac and Subversion to manage my software development projects. Although new projects like lighthouse and git have cropped up which look very intriguing, the lack of automated installation and maintaince and my lack of free time leaves my turning back to my existing trac + svn solution. The integration between these two projects is simply spectacular and the ability to have the software hosted and easily managed on a low cost shared server like DreamHost is definitely a plus. There was one missing piece after the initial installation process of svn + trac: post commit trac integration…
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I was away from the PHP world while traveling in Europe and in four short months some nice PHP MVC frameworks seemed to crop up out of nowhere. I’m starting a fairly large project and was determined to use one of these new frameworks as the design and ‘free’ functionality that they offered seemed too good to pass up. However, there was almost too many choices. It was hard to choose between: Cake PHP, Code Igniter, Akelos, PHP Dev Shell, and many others. For me it ended up coming down to Code Igniter (CI) and Kohana…
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After almost four years I’ve released the next – and possibly the last for a very long while – version of CSS Optimizer. Aside from minor optimizations, I’ve fixed the last remaining parser bug having to do with “font: 62.5%/1.2em”. I haven’t yet updated the GUI application, but the command line application for linux and os x is updated. I’ve also fixed all issues with the online web css optimizer. Also a little while ago I added a css optimizer web service to allow easier integration to custom automation systems. I’ve tested CSS Optimizer against some of the newer CSS optimizers such as YUI compressor as well as other online compressors and CSS Optimizer has always come out on top…
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PHP is an amazing language, I’ve appreciated it and its community more and more since I’ve been forced to mull through some ASP code. One thing it lacks in comparison to other languages such as BASH, Python, or Ruby is an interactive shell to test code in. A while back I found a nice little command line script that creates a quasi PHP shell. It isn’t perfect but it works pretty darn well for simple code testing and makes developing PHP scripts a bit easier. In addition to the command line shell a couple days ago a simple GUI PHP console, PHP console, was released. It seems to work fairly well, although I prefer the command line shell.
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Lots of improvements have been made in Leopard, but the built in installation of PHP still lacks some essential packages and extensions (PDO, GD, etc). You could download MAMP or Marc’s package but either of those isn’t exactly a drop in replacement for the built in PHP installation – I’d rather not have two separate PHP installations floating around on my computer. Below is a script to compile PHP as a drop in replacement. I didn’t come up with this completely on my own, these two sources were a great help. You’ll need to make sure you have MacPorts installed in order for the installation of additional modules using the script below to work…
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I’ve been making more use of my css optimizer in my recent web projects and put some work into creating an automated compression system for css and javascript files in a web project. In an effort to release a script that automates the compression of css and javascript files without compromising the ease of development and debugging I’ve setup a css optimizer service allowing you to use css optimizer without using the web interface or downloading the command line application. Here is how to access this service through the curl command line application: [code lang=”bash”] # compression on local css file curl http://mabblog.com/cssoptimizer/service.php -F “data=
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Using attachMovie when you’ve loaded other clips into your movie has always been very painful. You can’t attachMovie a asset into a loaded clip that is located in the parent movieclip, and conversly you can’t attachMovie a asset in a parent that was loaded into a child. This is extremely frusterating… but after some searching today I came across this interesting link. Using the fact that Flash likes to cache everything it can, he created a function that will load an clip that contains an asset into the movieclip you are trying to use attachMovie from. Nice idea, never thought of doing this before…
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Following the XTrace 1.1 update is XASH 1.4. This is a smaller release, but still comes with a good number of improvements: Search speed improvements Hitting return with the help tree in focus will open the currently selected page in the help tree Hitting return in the search field will cause the top most search item to open The book filter is now ‘sticky’ (remembers which book you last filtered by) Compiled & tested as a universal binary Actionscript 3 Support Alot of people have emailed me asking about support for Actionscript 3. The fact is, I dont use Actionscript 3 yet (don’t do nearly as much Flash work as I did), so I have no desire to add support for Actionscript 3 documentation…
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At last XTrace 1.1 is out the door! This has been a long time coming, and has alot of changes & new features: CMD+Shift+C now clears the log window XTrace now automatically starts the trace server Added the Sparkle (auto updating) framework Added the ability to disable wrapping in the log window Added the option for window auto-close (log window will close when the SWF it is connected to closes) New icon thanks to Ale! Log message coloring/formatting thanks to Daniel Giribet Compiled & tested as a universal binary I’ve recorded a quick tutorial on how XTrace works. If you’re new to XTrace, or just want a quick refresher I encourage you to take a look. If you would like to get involved with development, please send me an email!..
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