So, after a very succesful rainy weekend the long-standing project of a new website is finally reality. Thanks to this project I had the chance to check out with no client constrains what was out there to allow me doing what I wanted. After an in-depth review I decided to use WordPress with the customized […]
New Site in construction
Hi all, I’m remaking my site, so please apologize if you encounter any inconveniences. I should be done soon. Ciao Marco
Custom PHP 5.3.1 with APC and XDEBUG on (Dreamhost) Shared Host
I’ve recently been setting up my new dreamhost for symfony projects deployment and the only thing the default PHP is missing is the support for APC (alternate php cache).
MySql World Database as YAML fixture
For Symfony application I’m developing I needed all the Region separated by continent (7 continents model). I converted the MySql World Database (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/world-setup/en/world-setup.html) to a YAML NestedSet fixture file. I just had to make 4 minor changes to it: – rename the 3 continents that had region with the same name name (North America, South […]
Adapting doctrineexport.grt.lua to symfony standards
Using Mysql workbench to visually design a data model for a symfony application is pretty cool. Thanks to the guys of http://code.google.com/p/mysql-workbench-doctrine-plugin/ you can export the model to a YAML file ready for Doctrine.
migrating wordpress from gengo to wpml
A client of mine used to have a multilingual blog using the Gengo plugin, which I consider by now unfortunatly dead. Fortunately, the guys at http://www.wpml.org did a great job creating a new plugin that works like a charm.
wordpress iphone app with wpml
Solution to use the iphone application for multilingual blogging with wpml
Activating error 503 from a shell script
During deployment of a new version of a website you might want to have your server returning an error 503 (temporarily unavailable). here a solution
Symfony project on (bluehost) shared hosting
set up a working Symfony project (with SVN) on my bluehost shared hosting, this tutorial should work for other hosters with minor changes. What I wanted was to be able of using my account as a development server for a small group of developers that would automatically show the last revision of the SVN repository. I pushed the solution further and created on the same account two more subdomains for the staging and production server.
Installing Redmine on (bluehost) shared hosting
script to install readmine 0.8.4 on a shared host that offers ruby on rails.