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Archives for September 2013

Git diff this…

octocat_setupDid you know that you can link your projects to your github account even if the project is hosted on your own private git server? What’s even more interesting is that you can embed the diff gists into places like blog posts to share with you friends and family.

The following is an gist I created to test this theory in a the project we discussed during the last article (see what’s related below). In that article we setup a new repository to home the development of our WordPress projects. So the project is hosted on the internal git server that we setup on FreeBSD and I am using the git diff |gist -t diff command to push the diffs to my github account. This is what I received in return: [Read more…] about Git diff this…

Serving git with FreeBSD

logo_2xWhether you a new to software development of a relic of the early Dilbert era of developers version control has been around in some form or another since the early days of programming in the 1970’s. Granted programming existed prior to 1970 but what happened on punch cards is really not relevant to this discussion. What really matters is the pervasiveness of today’s open source projects and the need of programming teams to collaborate between iterations. [Read more…] about Serving git with FreeBSD

iOS7 is good but…

Apple iOS7 screen shotSure iOS7 is far better than the seemingly unfounded fears rampant through the development stage. Sure the icons and interfaces are flat but in a minimalistic way. Once again Apple has push us by giving us what we wanted before we knew it.

Unfortunately there is indeed a dark spot on this seemingly sunny day. Apple seriously has to rethink it’s deployment strategy. The new mobile OS was released yesterday and as of this morning it only had a 28% adoption rate. Droid fan boys and Microsoft will of course spin this as end user rejection however it truly has more to do with the ridiculous deployment scheme employed by Apple.

Consider a family with two or more iPhones on a less than optimal internet connection having to each individually download the binary update. I saw reports on twitter of 52+ hours to download. At one point my computer reported 84 hours and the number of times that iTunes froze during the download is utterly unbelievable. Each time you restart the process it begins all over again from the beginning. Saying that this experience is frustrating would be an infuriating understatement. This is incredible because the file is only 752MB, which makes me want to shout, ‘What the Frak?!?’ [Read more…] about iOS7 is good but…

Filtering without regex in PHP

300px-Swiss_Army_KnifeDid you know that there are a whole set of nifty filtering methods built into PHP? I know it’s crazy to think that the Swiss Army Knife language of the internet would have it’s own built-in filtering system but it does. For instance a common use case would be to sanitize user input prior to using it.

What I mean is perhaps you require a user to enter an email address into a form but let’s face it there are a lot of nefarious types out there who do not wish to play by the rules so they might try entering some arbitrary text or worse attempt to escape a command prompt in the package. Obviously no body wants to hand over their hard working website to some sort of script kiddie so what do you do? You filter the input of course. We’ve all seen code with a function like the following; [Read more…] about Filtering without regex in PHP

Maximizing your returns with GooglePlus

google plus logoI’ve been fortunate enough to be relatively active on most of the major social media networks far longer than many of the so called ‘experts’ and have learned from my mistakes. It was over a year ago that a friend urged me to give Google Plus another run and to ensure that all of my updates were as publicly available as possible.

Since that time I have had the opportunity to observe numerous people neglecting this very simple and yet important advice. Nothing is more frustrating than to see something that you worthy of resharing because it is relevant to your audience only to be hit with the following disclaimer; [Read more…] about Maximizing your returns with GooglePlus