Over all the time that I’ve been a developer I’ve had people telling me that I should get in front of an audience and speak. However I’ve always suffered from a rather bad case of ‘Imposter Syndrome’ which meant my automatic response to …
I’ve been a Scout Leader for a few years now and the District I work within have very little by way of internet presence. As a bit of a pet project I started building a simple Scout based website for them to use.
So… Its been a long time since I posted anything of any relevance. This is due to having been super busy with my previous company Zucchi.
However that has all changed now! After three and a half years of running my own company I have …
Despite having been around for a while and having been through a couple of revisions, its support across browsers can vary greatly. From “Candidate Recommendation” on Chrome/Opera, “legacy flexbox” on Firefox and no support at all on IE9 …
We wanted to create a Route to our custom Products Controller in our products module for SilverStripe 3.1, such as: “http://www.examplesite.com/products/”
However looking at the Controller Documentation it was not clear how to create a …
While working with Silverstripe we found ourselves having to run “?flush=1” a lot to clear the Cache. To switch it off, while you work, add the following to your mysite/_config.php:
SS_Cache::set_cache_lifetime('default', -1, 100);
We recently tried to use composer to set up SilverStripe 3.1, but ended up with a dependency nightmare. In order to work around this we decided to make use of Git submodules.
First set up your Git repository and run:
git init Next set up a …
We recently ran into problem using Doctrine 2 connecting to a Rackspace Cloud Database using the MySqli Driver.
Problem:
We have a long running PHP script that can sometimes run for hours at a time whilst processing information. This script …
Recently we have revisited using Zend Server for some of our projects and decided to give the new version 6 a chance to prove itself.
Overall its a big improvement over version 5. There are still some things that are extremely annoying but …
If you ever find yourself using MySQL via command line and end up with something like this:
And thought there must be another way, well here it is: Use \G instead of ; at the end of your select command.
For example:
select * from …
