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Getting started with MongoDB and PHP on Mac OS X

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Introduction MongoDB is a document-orientated database written with scalability and high-performance in mind. It is one of a growing number of NoSQL systems – a database that does not rely on SQL or relational theory at all. Getting a MongoDB server working with PHP on Mac OS X is relatively straightforward, and this tutorial shows [...]

Mac OS X Lion PHP upgrade – php.ini and Suhosin

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If you have upgraded from Snow Leopard to the new OS X Lion, you will notice PHP has also been upgraded – from 5.2 to 5.3. A couple of points that I noticed post-install. Firstly, my existing /etc/php.ini file was moved to /etc/php.ini-5.2-previous. Restoring this was trivial: sudo cp /etc/php.ini-5.2-previous /etc/php.ini However, I noticed that [...]

Install mcrypt PHP extension on OS X Snow Leopard

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Please note: The following instructions apply to Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I have an updated guide for how to install mcrypt on 10.7 (Lion). mcrypt is a useful extension to PHP if you would like to support a wide range of encryption algorithms within your code. This guide explains how you can enable [...]

Normalize URL’s with PHP

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I’ve posted to GitHub a PHP class that I’ve written which can handle URL normalization, as specified by RFC 3986. https://github.com/glenscott/url-normalizer Specifically, the following normalization steps are performed: Normalize case Decode unreserved characters Remove dot segments An example of use: require_once ‘URLNormalizer.php’; $url = ‘eXAMPLE://a/./b/../b/%63/%7bfoo%7d’; $un = new URLNormalizer(); $un->setUrl( $url ); echo $un->normalize(); // [...]

Shared memory fix for PostgreSQL Mac installation

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EnterpriseDB have kindly created a one-click installer for PostgreSQL, but unfortunately it doesn’t work out-of-the-box, at least not on my MacBook Pro. The problem is down to the amount of shared memory that is configured in OS X; by default it is 4Mb, and PostgreSQL requires 32Mb: The error message suggests looking at the README [...]

Sun and MySQL continue uneasy relationship

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As well as moving away from a completely open model, Sun’s MySQL has bigger issues: Sun has announced the official release of MySQL 5.1, a new version of the popular open source database software. Although Sun has declared that this version is ready for widespread adoption in production environments, MySQL creator Michael Widenius says that [...]

Review: London Perl Workshop

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Spent an interesting morning in the company of many Perl mongers at the London Perl Workshop. Although I don’t use Perl as my primary language any more, it was was interesting to learn about the current movements of its London-based community. The talks I attended were: The Complete History of the Perle Mongers of Olde [...]

Real World Lisp

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Prompted by a question posed by one of my colleagues today, “has anyone ever used Lisp?”, I surprisingly found myself being the only person that had. I played around with it many years ago after being inspired by Eric S. Raymond’s seminal article, “How to Become A Hacker” in which he explained that “getting” Lisp [...]

BrowserPlus to become Open Source

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The new BrowserPlus framework – a way of extending your browser capabilities – will become open source next year, which seems a sensible way to increase its adoption: The big idea here is that we’ll have the whole platform open sourced by mid-next year, and as soon as possible we’ll have many of the services [...]