Articles
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I’ve been doing a ton of optimizations on one of my main sites and one thing that I’ve been doing more and more is trying to reuse objects whenever possible. What’s this entail? All it takes is creating a static…
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How I saw the test-driven light
Aside from dealing with financial transactions, I’ve generally avoided test-driven development as part of my day to day workflow. Why? The usual reasons, but mostly because I didn’t want to incur the overhead of additional development. As a single founder…
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PHP 5.5 syntax highlighting for Vim
Now that I’m using PHP 5.5 I’m finding that my Vim syntax highlighting is a bit off. After some digging around I found a syntax file that was updated to PHP 5.5 RC1 but hasn’t been updated since. In true…
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Upgrade from PHP 5.3 to PHP 5.5 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Recently I made the decision to stop living in the past and start living in the present by using the latest stable release of PHP, version 5.5.8. Unfortunately on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (I always run LTS releases on my servers)…
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Domains are worthless without traffic
If you know anything about my growth strategy for my social network, it’s that I’m expanding my platform horizontally across multiple domains and allowing each site to grow organically. This has led me down the road of being one of…
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PHP segmentation faulting from logging too much
At least I think that’s what was happening. Today I made the somewhat calculated risk of upgrading my production server from PHP 5.3.10 to PHP 5.5.7. Scary stuff, jumping 2 point revisions like that but I was feeling cocky after…
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Getting PHP’s version from the command-line
As you may already know, obtaining the version number of PHP is a simple php –version away. This is great if you just want to see the version number, but what if you wanted just the version number? First option…
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Lessons learned from sending thank you cards to my users
I wanted to do something nice this holiday season and decided to identify some of my power users on SceneKids.com and mail them Christmas cards and some SK stickers. The users I had selected were a mix of users that…
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How to error when setting undefined class properties in PHP
Perhaps you have a class and you absolutely don’t want anyone tacking new properties onto it once it’s been instantiated. To do so, you can use PHP’s overloading to catch the setting of a variable and raise an error accordingly.…
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That time I got ripped off on Flippa
In my defense, I’m a grown ass man and I knew exactly what I was doing. I was really intrigued by all of the “automated websites” that Flippa is overrun with and figured I’d set myself a very modest budget…