Author Archives: mrgierer

I finished the “M101P: MongoDB for Developers” course from MongoDB University with a 100% score.

Posted on January 14, 2017 by mrgierer | Leave a comment

L’Hymne à l’amour

Posted on March 3, 2016 by mrgierer
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What A Wonderful World – Trombone Arrangement

Posted on March 2, 2016 by mrgierer
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Bootstrap themed forms with Silex – UPDATE

Posted on February 16, 2014 by mrgierer

In a side-project using Silex I wanted to have forms being styled with Bootstrap. I did not want to write the theming code myself. Since I couldn’t find a solution for Silex itself I thought about re-using a Symfony solution. … Continue reading →

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Twitter Bootstrap – no more excuses

Posted on May 26, 2012 by mrgierer

Twitter Bootstrap is a very well structured set of CSS classes paired with some JavaScript components which makes it easy to create good looking websites. By default it has a Twitteresque look but it can be customized very extensively. Besides … Continue reading →

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phing: Publish PEAR package to channel

Posted on September 20, 2011 by mrgierer

Publishing a PEAR package via a PEAR channel is normally done by uploading the package in the channels admin interface. While not a being very complicated task it asks for automation when releasing regularly. So I created a small phing … Continue reading →

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XDebug with Zend Server CE on MacOS X Snow Leopard

Posted on May 12, 2011 by mrgierer

After (finally) upgrading my Mac to Snow Leopard (a little late – I know) the xdebug module stopped working. I got “Failed loading /usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/xdebug.so: (null)” when launching php in Terminal (e.g. with running phpunit). Reinstalling xdebug did not help and … Continue reading →

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Interesting article on references in PHP

Posted on June 5, 2010 by mrgierer

Johannes Schlüters wrote a very interesting article on references in PHP. Already its title “Do not use PHP references” hints on its main conclusion: References in PHP are bad. Do not use them. They hurt and will just mess with … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu: Diff tool with file browser integration

Posted on May 14, 2010 by mrgierer

Having installed a new Ubuntu VM (for testing purposes) I was looking for visual diff tool with nice UI integration. Windows users: think of WinMerge being launched by selecting two files in Explorer and compare them from the context menu. … Continue reading →

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Interruptions

Posted on March 26, 2010 by mrgierer

Throughout the last weeks and month I made experiences by myself to that subject. Lately I found two very nice statements about this topic: First an article title “The Number One Developer Productivity Tool” (via @weierohpinney) which refers to an article … Continue reading →

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