YII under Fedora with SELinux
Running YII (release 1) under Fedora with SELinux required some adjustments to eliminate runtime errors and prevent the throwing of warnings. I have documented them here.
MySQL and Server Side Cursors
Common wisdom says “MySQL does not support server side cursors”. I searched and did not find anything that indicated this was old information (read on). After a lot of unsuccessful work to get MySQL to handle cursors with 1 million … Read More
Postgress – Fedora 17 Login Problem
Upgraded from Fedora 15 to Fedora 17 and installed Postgres db as I needed the functionality of a server-side query. After the upgrade, I was unable to log on to phpPgAdmin and in the httpd error log I was seeing … Read More
Create a Child theme based on Zenon Pro
If you are using the WordPress Zenon theme and need to make some heavy customization, you may want to follow the best practices to create a child theme. Unfortunately, the Zenon theme does not support the child themes due to … Read More
Address Parsing Routine
To support a marketing project, I developed a screen scraping program which harvested names and addresses from a county public website and downloaded the information in a csv format. This file was then edited in Excel and mail merged to … Read More
Trimble Standard Interface Protocol (TSIP)
For a recent project, the client required that several remote computers be time synch’ed by a Trimble GPS unit. The software running on the remote computers was written in C++. I was unable to find a generalized routine to get … Read More
Remote Access to MySQL on Fedora
A recent project which involved working with MySQL Workbench and accessing a MySQL database on a Fedora 14 computer has proven to be a challenge in getting the connection established. Besides receiving rather meaningless errors
SSH to Remote Site without password
When running ssh or scp from a script, there is a need to establish a connection to the remote site without being prompted for a password. This quick reference should get the job done.
PHPList and Dreamhost
Intro I have been testing PHPList on Dreamhost. Yes Dreamhost offers an Announcement list, but I needed something with a nicer interface and PHPList seems to be the product of choice. After getting it to run, I needed a place … Read More
Situation Appraisal
Managing requires a constant evaluation of the landscape. The following action sequence defines a process to assist in the evaluation of the environment and appraising the situation and then using the other tools identified, maximizing success Simply stated , your … Read More