Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Configuring Gallery2 to send email using Gmail

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I recently revived my online photo gallery but ran into a problem with sending mail. Unlike most of my other sites, I run this on a box that I have at home, which means that it's affected by my ISP's retarded firewall rules. Like most consumer ISPs, Rogers blocks outgoing ...

How To Integrate Subversion and Mantis

Friday, September 26th, 2008

I've been using Subversion for years now (and it's a great app), but just recently I've started using Mantis to keep track of tasks/bugs for some of my projects. Having your issue tracker reflect related changes in the source is very helpful and lately I've been thinking of setting this ...

5 Tools That Make My Life and Work Easier

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

In the past year I've been spending more and more time being productive online and along the way I've come across some pretty awesome tools. I always enjoy talking about stuff like this and I thought it would be interesting to do a proper write up on some of them. ...

Selecting a random row in MySQL

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Selecting a random row from a MySQL table is a pretty common requirement for many web sites/apps but for some reason it remains a bit of a mystery to many people. There are several ways to approach this problem but they all have something in common: the larger the table, ...