http://darrylclarke.com Random musings from a jaded coder who just needs a hug. Mon, 21 May 2012 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/12/22/the-switch-apache-mod_php-to-nginx-php-fpm/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/12/22/the-switch-apache-mod_php-to-nginx-php-fpm/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:29:43 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=713 File this under “another thing I should’ve done ages ago.” I decided that I should explore the world of Nginx as a web server since many people have been telling me it’s good. And all I can say is holy shit, it’s good. The setup was simple and after a few idiotic mistakes on my [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/12/22/the-switch-apache-mod_php-to-nginx-php-fpm/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/27/just-a-log/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/27/just-a-log/#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:57:02 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=576 Applications, especially ones that run over and over again with zero persistancy (of the application itself) like a web app needs logging. It’s important to be able to log different types of messages to different places and fortunately Zend_Log is so extensible that it can log to almost anything you can think of. My typically [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/27/just-a-log/feed/ 2 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/18/queueing-with-zend-queue-and-memcacheq/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/18/queueing-with-zend-queue-and-memcacheq/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:23:48 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=573 I was bored last night so I thought I’d enhance one of my applications with a little bit of Queueing. (And for the record both Queueing and Queuing are valid spellings depending on your locale) The concept is fairly straight forward. Normally when a web application runs, it runs in a linear pattern. It starts, [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/11/18/queueing-with-zend-queue-and-memcacheq/feed/ 2 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/10/17/tell-your-redirector-how-to-do-its-job/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/10/17/tell-your-redirector-how-to-do-its-job/#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:50:14 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=569 There’s a big difference between a redirect that uses a 301 and a 302 code on a website. If you don’t know the difference, you should find out. 301 says “This stuff has moved permanently and you shouldn’t come here anymore.” 302 says “You just need to go here, but this place will still answer [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/10/17/tell-your-redirector-how-to-do-its-job/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/10/06/database-profiling-with-zend-db-profiler-firebug/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/10/06/database-profiling-with-zend-db-profiler-firebug/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:18:35 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=556 I don’t know why I haven’t been using this for ages. But Zend’s DB Profiler is fun. Only to be used in development so you can see what your database is doing and how fast/slow it’s doing it. Enable it in your application’s config.ini (or .xml) [development] db.profiler.enabled = true db.profiler.class   = "Zend_Db_Profiler_Firebug" And as [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/10/06/database-profiling-with-zend-db-profiler-firebug/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/09/26/the-quickest-way-to-tweet-via-zend-frameworks-twitter-service/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/09/26/the-quickest-way-to-tweet-via-zend-frameworks-twitter-service/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:01:46 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=545 This is a quick and dirty method.  It assumes a couple of things. You’ve already created your ‘app’ on twitter. You’ve already gotten your personal OAuth tokens from twitter. First you need to setup your tokens; $token = new Zend_Oauth_Token_Access(); $token->setToken("YOUR_PERSONAL_TOKEN")       ->setTokenSecret("YOUR_PERSONAL_SECRET"); Second, you need to setup the Zend_Service_Twitter using your access token as [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/09/26/the-quickest-way-to-tweet-via-zend-frameworks-twitter-service/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/06/01/typecasting-with-double-not-vs-bool/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/06/01/typecasting-with-double-not-vs-bool/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:51:53 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=332 I was asked a strange question today.  “What’s return !! $row; do?” And I had never really been witness to the syntax of the double-not ‘!!’ because really, to me, it’s a bit strange and contradictory for the coding styles I’m used to.  So I looked it up a bit more to see if it [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/06/01/typecasting-with-double-not-vs-bool/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2010/03/19/dictionary-apis-are-fun/ http://darrylclarke.com/2010/03/19/dictionary-apis-are-fun/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:01:02 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=290 As part of my Hangman! application on Facebook, I plan on adding word definitions.  Like any good word app, it should tell you what the word means.  I’m not a big fan of sending off users to other sites when I don’t have to, so I looked into some dictionary APIs. These APIs are hard [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2010/03/19/dictionary-apis-are-fun/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2009/12/13/zf-tip-dont-use-index-as-a-module-name/ http://darrylclarke.com/2009/12/13/zf-tip-dont-use-index-as-a-module-name/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:07:52 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=269 I’ve been using Zend Framework for a while and when I do my own sites things always work as expected.  But a couple of times in the past I’ve had the honor of working on other sites with other people that have lead me to a few ‘wtf?’ issues. The most recent one was as [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2009/12/13/zf-tip-dont-use-index-as-a-module-name/feed/ 2 http://darrylclarke.com/2009/07/12/all-i-need-is-rest-vimeo-flickr-zend-and-more/ http://darrylclarke.com/2009/07/12/all-i-need-is-rest-vimeo-flickr-zend-and-more/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:18:45 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=208 Here’s my skeleton for my magical REST interface. It’s still missing a lot of method calls for Flickr and Vimeo, but the guts are there and the remaining methods will be done in priority when I need them.  Right now it supports automatic caching and logging via simple options. At some point I’ll probably put [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2009/07/12/all-i-need-is-rest-vimeo-flickr-zend-and-more/feed/ 0