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.