Recently I was attempting to test a web application using BrowserCam. BrowserCam has a bank of virtual machines on different versions of many platforms including Apple OSX, Linux Fedora, and Windows. While attempting to regression test in older versions of IE I noticed I absolutely could not log in to my application. This only occured [...]
I’ve been going through the MySQL slow query log at my new job to optimize our applications performance. It’s a bit more scary making changes when you’re the “new guy” because there are a lot of “gotchas” you haven’t quite figured out in the new platform. Well one of the queries that I wanted to [...]
I recently blogged on Reducing Code using CodeIgniters Active Record Class. In this blog I focus on easily collecting data from your object members using get_object_vars(). After using this for a while I found that unsetting certain members prior to an insert/update became rather annoying. I’ve been knee deep in Code Igniter for the past [...]
I performed some unscientific PHP benchmarks today pitting casting to an integer against is_numeric against preg_replace. The point was to see which is the fastest way of quickly cleaning user input before passing to a SQL query to prevent against SQL injection. Obviously this would only work on database fields that are integers. To be [...]
UPDATE Nov. 9, 2011: I have begun moving away from using this in my code. I am now using a core Model class that is extended by other models that takes care of stuff like this. Please read Inheritance in CodeIgniter: Adding More Functionality To Your Models for more information. While this is still an okay [...]
Been having fun since Friday dealing with a compromised server. Somehow an infiltrator loaded two files onto the server in question. One in an OS Commerce directory (very out of date installation) and the other into the root of a Word Press 2.9 install. The malicious code would then phone home to a recently registered domains [...]
I wanted to create a shell script that will automatically grab a database backup from our backup server via rsync to a local server so we can have relatively recent copies of our database stored locally for running intensive reports against. This is a stopgap solution until we setup a reporting server in our datacenter. [...]
There are a few things I’ve had to learn the hard way over the years as a developer. In 2006 I was working as a Network Admin and decided to start programming in my free time. In 2007 I took a job working for an e-commerce company and really cut my teeth fast diving head [...]