Traits with Symfony 1.4

PHP 5.4 is so nifty. And traits are mad cool.

Sending Email to Google Apps Address on same domain

Google Apps email is great!

Habits vs. Unity

Want something that’s great? Try Unity, Ubuntu 12.04′s new Desktop.

Practical Use for Hash Functions

And now for something completely different: A piece of information that seems to get taught at universities that not only has plenty of practical use in everyday web development, it is also surprisingly easy to understand. Here goes.

Blobs in Doctrine Fixtures

Looks like Doctrine 1.2 (in Symfony 1.4) doesn’t like loading blobs in fixtures. You can base64_encode them, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a blob, now does it!

PHP Doctrine ORM: Low memory

Today, I made an arduous discovery: Doctrine 1.2, the Object-Relational mapper used with symfony 1.4, has a HYDRATE_ON_DEMAND fetch mode. This allows doctrine to function just like pdo does: You do a query, loop over it, and the data doesn’t consume memory until it gets fetched. (And can be freed before the next pass)

Backups for Linux Audio Recordings

If you spend a lot of time recording, you don’t want those recordings to suddenly go away. Enter backups.

Ubuntu Audio review

I just got a new notebook, yay! Aside of the pure joy it brings, setting it up has also been a great opportunity to have another look around on what’s the best way to get linux audio software onto an Ubuntu based system.

UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 in Emails

Emails are tricky. There’s so many legacy systems to keep track of.

Add a self signed certificate to Google Chrome in Ubuntu Linux

On this blog, any problem is worth solving, no matter how obscure!

What to learn first in CSS

Creating a page in HTML and CSS is a lot like baking a cake.