Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Yosemite and SSL Certificate Verification Failed with cURL

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Let's say you're a developer, like myself, and you have just updated to Apple's latest operating system (Yosemite or 10.10) and ...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Fixing InnoDB error "the age of the last checkpoint is..."

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I recently switched a production database from MyISAM to InnoDB and I noticed the next day my logwatch email had a bunch of errors like this...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Fixing json_encode() Problem in PHP 5.5 on Ubuntu 13.10

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I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 over the weekend and everything went pretty well. It automatically brings PHP 5.5 with it, too. When I tried to...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Symmetric-Key Encryption: AES in PHP and what "mode" to choose

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Doing some encryption? Want to use the same key for encryption and decryption? Well, I did too. Here are the results of a lot of internet se...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Checking the last SQL statements used by PHPActiveRecord

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I'm using PHP-ActiveRecord on a project and am loving it. But there are some things to learn and as a guy coming from the write-your-ow...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

Error starting Apache (httpd) - Configuration files not readable

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Here is an interesting issue I ran into today while setting up a new VM. I had copied the Apache conf file and SSL/TLS certificate files ont...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Using SQLite for Unit Testing in PHP

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Unit testing is infamous when one attempts to test database-interacting classes. I noted that some had suggested using SQLite when running p...