Good-bye Ubuntu. Sort of.
I started using Ubuntu in 2009. By the following year I had dropped the dual boot with Windows XP and was completely Ubuntu. When I hit a glitch during an update in 2011, I figured I would re-install...
View Articlemkdir(): Too Many Links – What It Is and How to Fix
Recently, I was notified of an “out of disk space” error message which showed up in one of our applications while trying to send an email. I knew right away the source of the problem and while the...
View ArticleReflection and Late Static Binding in PHP
Late static binding (LSB) is new to PHP 5.3 (released 30 June 2009) but until recently there was a bug in how it worked with reflection. See the manual page for LSB with some examples and definition....
View ArticleMouse Gestures Everywhere
I like to use keyboard shortcuts for just about anything I can. It confuses my wife a little when she watches me on the computer (she says I’m Computer ADHD) but for me it gets the job done quicker and...
View ArticleThe Microwave Minute
How do you set your microwave to one minute? For some (like the one I used to have at home) you could just press the number 1 and it would start running at one minute. I like that because I’m …...
View ArticleWatch Your Users
After my previous post, involving the microwave interface, I asked a few people in my family how they enter one minute on a microwave. I was surprised that none of them had ever thought to enter 6 – 0...
View ArticleCron Job For the Last Day of the Month
I think cron is a wonderful creation. It is simple in what it does while being extremely useful. Allow me to present a short introduction to it for those unfamiliar, then I will show you a handy trick...
View ArticleDirty Dishes – Avoiding Human Error
As a programmer, much of my job is eliminating the chance for human error by automating as much as is sensible. I don’t live with the mindset of “keep those filthy humans away” but I do know the value...
View ArticlePHP Sessions and Objects
For the majority of my PHP career I didn’t store objects in a session. Not that it’s a difficult thing, I simply didn’t have a need to in the past. Now that I do, I have discovered a peculiar (in …...
View ArticleCron Job for Every Three Days
Previously, I talked about creating a cron job for the last day of the month. This time around, I’m going to show how to set a cron job to run every so-many days. We’ll use every three days as an …...
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