Archive for February, 2009
My Zend_Acl Implementation
Introduction It seems everyone, myself included, has a bit of a hard time first grasping Zend_Acl. For the time being, I’ve settled on a simple solution. It’s party based on the solution given in the Zend Framework in Action book. I hope you get some use out of it.
VMWare Tools on Ubuntu 8.04 Server
Introduction I maintain a VMWare Server (not ESX) that currently hosts 9 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS guests. To my mistake, I never thought of installing VMWare Tools on any of them until I started seeing premature performance bottlenecks. Being tasked with 9 installations, I could either install the Tools on each guest manually or look for [...]
How I Deploy Websites
Introduction I’ve gotten into the habit of using a Virtual Machine to develop my websites. The VM mimics the production server as much as possible so there are little-to-no changes that need made when the site is moved to production. To move a site from the development server to the production one, I wanted a [...]
My Git Workflow
Introduction I was never a fan of Subversion because every time I tried using it, I always managed to corrupt the repository. Also having .svn files everywhere really annoyed me. On the other hand, I have yet to ruin a Git repository. It’s incredibly easy to use and everything is stored in a top-level .git [...]