Stackoverflow as a rubber duck
This week we had the director of an external agency in the office. During a meeting…
How to upload pre-made videos to Instagram
UPDATE: Instagram now allow uploads from your gallery, making this post redundant. 🙂 A few days…
Solr 4 importing MySQL – DataImportHandler not found
Importing MySQL db into Solr4. #           …
PHPUnit on Ubuntu 12.04 via Vagrant – Solving the ‘ /usr/bin/phpunit: No such file or directory’ error
Had a real issue installing PHPUnit on my Vagrant server. Initially I got this error: Call…
Install Solr on Vagrant
[Update] This method will install an older version of Solr. To get the latest I followed…
Solving [DoctrineDBALDBALException] Unknown database type enum requested, DoctrineDBALPlatformsMySqlPlatform may not support it.
Importing pre-existing MySQL DB using Doctrine in Symfony2 I came across this error: [DoctrineDBALDBALException] Unknown database…
PHP – Auto generate links from pre-defined strings Class
I needed a way of automatically generating links from blog posts, based on a pre-defined set…
Initial look at the Laravel PHP framework
Over the last few years I’ve had great experiences and results using Symfony2 to build web…
Using Git to deploy live/dev sites
Deployment to the live server consists of creating a bare repo in a location on the server accessible via SSH, then pushing to that. A hook script is setup inside this repo to pull any changes out into the working directory for that particular site.