Author Archives: Garrett

PHP: Format a number to a certain # of decimal places without rounding

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Garrett

One way to doit: $val = 7.5678; echo bcdiv($val, ’1′, 1); //Will produce 7.5 echo bcdiv($val, ’1′, 2); //Will produce 7.56 echo bcdiv($val, ’1′, 3); //Will produce 7.567 @see http://php.net/manual/en/function.bcdiv.php

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Remove password from ssl key file

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Garrett

openssl rsa -in keywithpassphrase.key -out keywithoutpassphrase.key

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SSH Options

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Garrett

Keep the connection alive

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Checking response headers using the command line (console)

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Garrett

Use the command below to view the response headers for a given URL. The “–spider” option in the call prevents wget from actually downloading the page/file; it just checks that it exists and returns the headers.   References http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Download-Options.html  

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Installing Doctrine ORM in a Zend Framework Application

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Garrett

UPDATE: 2012-04-30 The instructions below have been updated for compatibility with Zend Framework 1.11.11 and Doctrine 2.2.2 . There are a number of methods for integrating Doctrine into a Zend Framework application. Many of the examples on the web detail … Continue reading →

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Zend Framework Application Setup

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Garrett

Over the past several years I’ve created a number of Zend Framework applications. For my projects I’ve found that a “module” based directory structure works best. The following describes how I setup my applications using a modular based directory structure.

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Ubuntu 10.10 and my iPhone

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Garrett

I was getting errors whenever I connected my iPhone to a USB port while running Ubuntu 10.10 … the following fixed me up: … I found this @ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/652617/comments/14

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First Seattle PHP Meetup

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Garrett

Just attended my first meetup/seattle-php-meetup. Looking forward to the next one.

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My Logitech Marble Mouse: Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Garrett

1. Create the following file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-marblemouse.conf 2. Paste into the file: Section “InputClass” Identifier “Marble Mouse” MatchProduct “Logitech USB Trackball” MatchIsPointer “on” MatchDevicePath “/dev/input/event*” Driver “evdev” Option “SendCoreEvents” “true” # Physical buttons come from the mouse as: # Big: 1 … Continue reading →

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Memory: Clearing the cache

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Garrett

> sync > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

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