January 2012
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April 2010
6 posts
No longer using Tumblr!
I’ve migrated all my posts to my own website. If anyone is at all interested in seeing it, check it out: http://www.nickfehr.com/blog/
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Opera for iPhone is just the beginning.
Opera mobile for iPhone was released yesterday and, frankly, I’m just as surprised as everyone else that Apple would approve a competitor to their Safari web browser. Yes, I already tweeted this link, but this Slashdot article claims that it’s not very good: http://bit.ly/augyRh. I really hope it doesn’t improve because this would pave the way for MORE browsers on MORE platforms....
Disable Debug Output for Ajax in CakePHP →
Wish I had seen this a while ago. The annoying part about ajax with cakephp is that if debug is larger than 0, you get all kinds of extraneous response text which muddles up the programming. This is a good solution to set the debug value on the fly. Thanks Otaqui.com!
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Thought I'd hop on the "blogging about iPad"... →
Pretttty prettttty cool.
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Dealing with icon clustering (Google Maps API) →
March 2010
12 posts
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Sending Cookies with cURL and PHP
For some reason, this was something I haven’t had to do before and was surprisingly hard to find a resource for. This comes in handy when dealing with an XML API, which is what I was using it for. In my case, I had to authenticate by pulling a cookie from a server and sending it back with every subsequent request. Example:
$c = curl_init(‘PATH_YOU_ARE_SENDING_TO’); curl_setopt...
Shared webhosting providers switch to FTPeS
This is so annoying, and I’ve noticed it on several different shared hosting providers that I use. Seems like everyone is changing to FTPeS, and providing god awful instructions on how to switch. It is solved by changing your connection type to FTPS. That is all. Look how Webhostingpad decides to explain it:
Over the course of the next two weeks we will be switching the configuration of our...
5 Common Startup Myths Busted →
I totally agree with this. Very useful if you haven’t heard it before.
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Another command line fix for y'all
CakePHP’s bake script can be very useful to generate a data access model with CRUD operations almost instantaneously. However, depending on your install, it may not work properly. When I first tried it, I got the following error in Terminal:
-bash: cake: command not found
The fix for this is very simple, but took me hours to find the first time. Totally worth it because I’ve saved...
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Using MAMP and can't get your MySQL server to...
This problem comes up pretty often when I’m using MAMP for my local development environment and really frustrated me the first time it came up, so I’m going to share this fix with the world.
When your MySQL server won’t start, type this into the command line and try again (works like a charm):
killall -9 mysqld
Performing HTTP Geocoding with Google Maps API and... →
This tutorial is a super simple, super easy way to geocode data and retrieve a latitude and longitude through the Google Maps API. Very useful and quick to implement.
Getting rid of your Microsoft User Data folder in... →
I don’t know why it took me so long to figure this one out. I’m still running 10.4 on a PowerBook G4 and decided to finally answer this question while I was freeing up some space on my Startup Disk and reorganizing my Documents folder. This is a super easy fix and I recommend running this 2-line fix immediately.
Lookup your email contacts on Tumblr →
Why is this so difficult to find?
Z-index in CSS... Why won't it work?? →
Z-index is an issue with CSS that had confused me for a long time. Why does it never seem to work how I expect it to? Well I did some research and found that the answer was very simple, so I created the wiki article. In retrospect this is a very simple and elementary issue and seems obvious, but this article is a good resource for beginners with CSS.
Monolingual: Free up space on your mac by getting... →
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Link Shortening Craze: Good or Bad?
Link shortening services have been around for a long time. But only in the last couple years has it truly blown up, largely due to Twitter’s 140 character limit for posts. Bit.ly has appeared to have won the battle to become the de facto shortening service, but to the average user, many new url services have popped up, such as goo.gl, fb.me, nyt.ms, tcrn.ch, etc… (Bit.ly is actually...
February 2010
4 posts
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Great fonts released specifically for the web →
A bunch of great web fonts from the FontFont type foundry, presented by the FontShop blog.
Most programmers can't program AT ALL →
I find this article to ring true and it’s something that would be very useful for anyone in management at a tech company to know. However, I did get my first job programming with almost zero comprehension of how anything worked, but for me, the opportunity left me infinitely more qualified. I don’t think this is necessarily typical, and I would remain cautious when hiring, as it is...
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CSS sticky footers SOLVED
The age old problem of getting your footer to “float down” has been solved with this clean solution from Trevor Sheridan. I definitely prefer this to many of the sticky footer solutions I’ve used in the past, but I still think it would be great if CSS could “float: up” and “float: down” with ease. However, as long as you have a decent amount of content and...
What a specific product! →
A website that only sells 10 ampersands? Since the space-time paradox of 1887? Interesting.
September 2009
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