Labs

Rob provides some simple instructions for installing Jenkins continuous integration tool and integrating it with your Git repositories. Continue reading →

We’ve been doing some project work requiring speedy image transformations on the server using ImageMagick. Pete talks us through compiling ImageMagick from source on Unix (Debian) Continue reading →

Pete has written a useful guide to installing Debian as a VirtualBox guest, with host-only networking, setting up SSH access, and NFS file sharing. Continue reading →

At present Symfony 2 is the most active open source PHP project on github. It has a great community behind it contributing to both the framework and reusable packages and we’ve been using it within our development stack for a number of web application projects. Pete discusses some of the reasons why. Continue reading →

As with most professions, a craftsman should get to know, love and look after their tools. As web-developers – the majority of the time – our tools are the software and programming languages we work with every day. Patrick takes a look at some of the features of our text-editing IDE of choice – Sublime. Continue reading →

When working with any web application it is useful to have some kind of reporting mechanism for execution time, number of queries, memory use and so on and we have used the following to help us profile ours. Continue reading →

During a recent project it was necessary to perform Unix Timestamp comparisons in a large number of Doctrine queries. This asset is a User Defined Function which allows Doctrine 2 to utilise MySQL’s “UNIX_TIMESTAMP” function. Continue reading →

At some unknown juncture, the ability to use the native Flash Player debugger to debug my Flash applications from Flash/Flex builder stopped working. Whenever I debugged/launched the application (F11) the  progress would stick at 57% and eventually the attempted connection would timeout. I set out to find a solution. Continue reading →

Since migrating our PHP dev framework to Zend + Doctrine at the beginning of the year, we have enjoyed getting our teeth stuck into writing some seriously reusable code. This asset, (the first to make it onto our new github account), will gift anyone using Doctrine 2 the much loved SQL “DATE_FORMAT” function. Continue reading →