Installing Phing on MAMP (Mac OSX)
Just bumped into Phing, and thought I’d share my experiences. Installing Phing is easy enough. Phing is a build system in the shape of a PHP Pear package, that can do many things. To quote Hans Lillelid, this could include for instance configuring, packaging, uploading and testing. Ideal for building installable Joomla zip-files, which is what I am using it for right now.
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MySQL connection (resource) management
Just came across a good article by Jay Pipes talking about lazy loading and caching of content. A nice read with some good code examples that I thought I should share with my fellow readers. (more…)
Creating symlinks without shell access
While testing out the WordPress plugin WP-Cache, used to cache and speed up wordpress powered websites, I came across a list of commens on the plugin creator’s website where alot of comments had questions as to how one should create a symlink that was required in the plugin installation. (more…)