February 2009
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By rp on February 22, 2009
I recently had to work on a signup form where the user was present different set of fields based on where the user came from. Lets take a sample scenario, I have a signup form where users get to from the “Plans” page.
If the user chooses to go with the Free Plan, he gets [...]
Posted in Web Development | Tagged algorithm, array, cc expiry, conditional validator, confirmation, credit card info, credit card validator, password validation, Symfony, widgets
By rp on February 22, 2009
I have been playing around with CURL and its awesomeness for a potential idea and had to use some data retrieved by sending a ICMP packet to the host. This was required to check to check stuff like host availability, packet loss etc. The standard stuff. Doing this would be fairly straightforward if you wanted [...]
Posted in Web Development | Tagged awesomeness, code snippet, data structure, exec function, icmp packet, milli seconds, packet loss, pear, ping ping, ping statistics, raw data, reply, result object, sequence array, target, trip times
By rp on February 20, 2009
There are times when your work environment is setup such that your dev environment is setup on another box and you have to edit code on that code a quick an easy solution is to login to the box, over ssh and update the code over vi. However most people wouldn’t want to leave the [...]
Posted in Web Development | Tagged Add new tag, config, dev environment, devbox, distro, dynamic linker, easy solution, easynews, free software, fuse, ld, lib, libraries, macfusion, search path, sft, sourceforge, ssh, sshfs, tar gz, work environment
By rp on February 19, 2009
Macs are nearly perfect but not free of flaws, a couple of weeks back I had this problem where my macbook pro from work refused to wakeup and doing anything to the track pad and keyboard didnt bring it back to life.
I searched all over the INTERNET, with no concrete solution until I came across [...]
Posted in Getting Things Done | Tagged acer travelmate, annoying problem, concrete solution, hardware problems, keyboard, mac book, personal mac, ribbon cable, track pad, trackpad, warranty
By rp on February 12, 2009
I have been moving my development to Linux lately and had the first real struggle getting the rewrite stuff working on Apache. Problem wasn’t that I didn’t know how to do it, (BTW usually i would prefer to have a self compiled version of Apache as I would know what’s in it) but that the [...]
Posted in Web Development | Tagged apache 2, configuration files, directory permissions, followsymlinks multiviews, htaccess file, hth, indexes, leopard, linux, rewrite, struggle
By rp on February 8, 2009
The recent project that I am working on for a client has taught me more about svn than I ever did because of the complex nature of the product. It has been going through a proper product development cycle which involves quick iteration of features and sometimes, such dramatic changes that can make the entire [...]
Posted in Web Development | Tagged bug fixes, development, directory structure, dramatic changes, empty directory, initial directory, iteration, nature of the product, php, product development cycle, repos, secret project, svn, Symfony
By rp on February 6, 2009
So this photo being twittered today, made me laugh, reminded me so much how I am. Though note the guy has a spanking new LCD at home, that’s reason enough to want to go home.
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