http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2021-05-04T20:56:39Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2021-05/10174/ <p>It's been three and a half months since I got PHP CI working on Travis, so of course it's now broken. Github Actions are the new hotness, so I figured out the <a href="https://github.com/iamcal/SQLParser/blob/master/.github/workflows/php.yml">right magical config</a> to run multi-version CI for PHP over there instead, and it runs much faster too.</p> 2021-05-04T20:56:39Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2015-07/making-pecl/ <p>A future note to self - if you're trying to build and install PECL modules but your /tmp is mounted as noexec, you can manually set PECL's temp dir <a href="http://blog.litespeedtech.com/2013/04/05/trouble-shooting-pecl-install-doesnt-work/">using pear</a>. Yes, this makes little sense.</p> 2015-07-07T03:19:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2013-03/github-march-wrapup/ <p>I've posted a bunch of projects to Github in the last few months and haven't linked to them anywhere, so here's a quick roundup of recently notable projects:</p> <ul> <li>[lib_timezones](https://github.com/iamcal/lib_timezones) - A PHP and JS library to handle user-specified timezones properly, with reasonable client-side auto detection.</li> <li>[lib_classsify](https://github.com/iamcal/lib_classify) - A partial PHP port of Github's own [linguist](https://github.com/github/linguist) which can automatically detect the programming language, given a code fragment.</li> <li>[js-emoji](https://github.com/iamcal/js-emoji) - A JavaScript library to allow display of Emoji in then browser for OSs without native support (anything that's not OSX 10.8 or iOS 6)</li> <li>[lib_autolink](https://github.com/iamcal/lib_autolink) - My old PHP URL-detection and linking library, updated to handle multiple protocols.</li> <li>[lib_solr_query](https://github.com/iamcal/lib_solr_query) - A PHP library to turn user-entered complex search queries into valid SOLR query syntax. Supports phrases, booleans, nesting, assertions and more.</li> </ul> 2013-03-25T17:02:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-06/use-bcrypt/ <p>With all the current excitement about leaked password databases, I thought I'd take the time to make doing it the right way a bit easier. If you're working on a PHP app, start using <a href="https://github.com/iamcal/lib_bcrypt">lib_bcrypt</a> right now.</p> 2012-06-09T19:32:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-04/facebook-engineering-process/ <p>A <a href="http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering.ars/1">nice read</a> about facebook's release engineering approach. This should all sound very familiar to Flickr alumni.</p> 2012-04-19T02:22:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-10/2731/ <p><a href="http://twig.sensiolabs.org/">twig</a> looks neat, if i ever get sick of smarty. syntax is a little odd though</p> 2011-10-19T04:01:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2681/ <p><a href="http://phpsadness.com/">php sadness</a> points out a lot of real issues, but it's still the best tool for many problems</p> 2011-06-08T00:08:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-04/2660/ <p>i'm still using smarty and <a href="http://www.nosmarty.net/">you're</a> no longer on the internet. i think i win this round</p> 2011-04-26T06:23:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-11/2408/ <p>i'm generally skeptical of new things, but <a href="http://www.firephp.org/">fire php</a> seems pretty nice. stuffing that in headers is a lovely way to debug json ajax responses</p> 2009-11-18T07:07:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2009-10/2382/ <p>a couple of interesting alternatives to phpMyAdmin, both simpler: <a href="http://sqlbuddy.com/">sqlbuddy</a> looks like a really well done minimalist effort, while <a href="http://code.google.com/p/phpminiadmin/">phpMiniAdmin</a> like like PMA from 10 years ago.</p> 2009-10-24T16:18:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)