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Password best practices @Future500
April 3rd, 2013
I've been building software for well over a decade now, and I'm absolutely guilty for breaking every rule below in the past.. but we've been adopting a more active approach to outlining our company beliefs, to live and breathe what we do every day. So here's our stance on password security:
Switching between php versions with macports
March 9th, 2013
As thing are moving along in PHP versions, and as we start seeing more and more of php 5.5, I find it very useful to be able to switch between PHP versions. If you're on OSX, and using macports, switching is easy enough. There is a port called "php_select" that will help you choose the currently active php version.
How to reload macports without unload, load
March 8th, 2013
I've been using macports ever since I switched to the macbook pro a couple of years ago. It's a very fine ports collection that uses very straightforward commands to do whatever is it you want to do.
Move from Netbeans to Sublime and never look back
February 2nd, 2013
Quite a while ago, I wrote an article on how we left Eclipse behind. Back then I stated we'd NEVER go back to Eclipse, and that much is true.. but we did get annoyed with Netbeans, for more than one reason.
phpMyAdmin slow on startup
July 19th, 2012
Lately I've been running into a problem on my local machine with phpMyAdmin, where it would just hang after selecting the database. Blank screen, spinning beach ball, insane CPU usage... you know the drill. Today I'd had enough, and looked a little deeper into the issue.