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Why ORMs Suck

November-03

I know, "ORMs are great", but they suck too.

A Milestone in Open Source DIY Home Security

October-23

Today is a milestone in the development of the TANC Web app - the only Open Source Home Security Internet Connector.

ZF3 Forms Used Standalone Plus Mustache Templates

July-26

How can you use ZF3 Forms outside of Zend Framework? It's pretty involved, but not that complicated. How about mustache templates, can you mix ZF3 Forms with a project that's already using Mustache templates?

Arduino OLED SSD1306 Driver Reiew

July-22

I picked up an SSD1306 I2C display for my Adruino Nano. There are a number of drivers available, here's what each can do.

Prestashop Redirect Loop (SSL / HTTPS)

July-11

I'm in the process of evaluating e-commerce platforms, so I thought I'd give prestashop a try.

ZF3 (Zend Framework 3) Forms

July-02

With the recent announcement that ZF3 is available, I thought I'd give the forms component a shot.

The Glory of Gogs

May-19

GOGS - the "Go Git Service" - is a simple Github clone written in go. I say simple because it just works.

Exporting customer data from WooCommerce

May-13

WooCommerce is a shopping cart plugin for WordPress. It comes with very little base functionality, and you're expected to buy plugins to extend its feature set. But, something as simple as exporting your customer data - so you can add or remove people from a mailing lists - shouldn't be such a mystery.

Never Forget Tmux

April-30

Tmux is great. I use it all the time, but sometimes I forget to use it. When I'm in a hurry I forget to start a new tmux session until I'm tailing a log file and then I can't launch a new shell on a remote machine until I ssh again, or stop tailing, start tmux, redo the tail command.

Moving Mysql's Datadir to a Cloud Drive - Can't Create lower-test

April-07

Recently I was trying to change MySQL's datadir setting away from the default of /var/lib/mysql to /data/mysql because I had mounted a cloud storage drive on /data. This proved to be more trouble than I expected.

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