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Versioning WordPress Content

Something that winds up being difficult when developing for WordPress (or Drupal, or any other database heavy CMS), is the versioning of content. Databases aren’t under your SCM directly. Because of this, deploying changes to production can be dicey. The scenario is typically something like this: Client wants 5 new pages, and a few revisions […]

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Enterprise PHP Development

While working at EZYield, we’ve come across a shortage of qualified Enterprise Level PHP Developers. While that term might sound a bit nebulous, there’s really just a handful of things that separate the men from the boys in PHP. Honestly, those traits really aren’t even that hard to learn. They’re contradictory to the “rockstar” persona […]

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HTML5 and CSS3 Works in IE

Well, kinda … CSS can be a major headache for unseasoned front-end developers. The intricacies of layout design and how different browsers interpret them is the bane of a designers existence. The most common problem we have is how IE has handled this. With a few tools though, sanity can be restored to UI development.vFirst, […]

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Linux Deployment Scripts

A common issue in web development is getting new code to production environments. Nobody wants their site down for long, and depending on who you are a long time could be seconds or less. If you’re production environment is running a versioned instance of your code, updating that environment is as simple as using your […]

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Keep Your SSH Identity

So, I’ve been doing a ton of stuff lately on a ton of servers. Almost all of this involves using git to clone repositories into a multitude of servers. The problem with this, is that I’m limited to a single SSH key for all of my git clones. This is tricky, since shelling into a […]

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Spam Links in Head Tags of Drupal 5

Recently while at work at Phase2Technology, we got a report of bogus links being returned when searching for their site.  After doing a quick search of the terms that should return their site, I got confirmation the issue was legit: What was weird though, was that when I went to the page and viewed source, […]

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The Trouble With The Web …

Web Development is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Nearly every day some new product or development turns the whole scene on it’s head. Just a dozen years ago, the thought of being a web developer was less than promising for most folks. Today, that’s quite different. There’s a huge catch in […]

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What I Use

It occurred to me recently, that there’s a bit of variance in what developers use. For many folks not used to writing code, the availability of software to help write software can be a bit overwhelming. For that reason, I’m writing the stuff that makes me tick. A disclaimer: I primarily use Mac OS X (Leopard). I […]

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SSH Without a Password

I used to always refer to a different site when I wanted to remember how to setup a machine to use SSH without a password. That site (I don’t recall what it is) isn’t around anymore. So, I guess I have to post the tutorial here. SSH is one of the major tools in what […]

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Google Reader and Zend_Http_Client Saves Time

I’ve been working a lot on Florida Death Metal lately. Part of that means that I need to know news, as it happens, from a lot of different sources. That can be difficult (and a pain in the ass) to keep track of. The last thing I want to do, is visit 50 different sites […]