Submitted by Guy Paddock on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 12:47
Have you ever been developing an application in PHP and wished that the language supported "enums" or "enumerated types"? In this blog post, Guy describes several solutions to this problem.
Submitted by Guy Paddock on Mon, 08/29/2011 - 18:45
This is a quick tip for CentOS and Red Hat sysadmins out there, in the hopes that it saves you some time!
After upgrading software recently on one of our CentOS servers, we ended up with a lot of ".rpmnew" files strewn about in /etc because of all the configuration updates. Curiously, a search through Google yields results of people suggesting the following options for dealing with them:
Hello all. For this week's post I thought I'd mention my two new tutorials. One of the tutorials is a quick and easy introduction to the Photoshop Pattern Stamp Tool. The other tutorial is an in-depth look at Vector imaging. If you're new to the pen tool....or don't know the difference between a raster and a vector, you should give it a look. :-)
Submitted by Guy Paddock on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 16:30
Have you ever found yourself wishing that it was as easy to write a regular expression to match a time/date string as it is to generate a time/date string with the PHP date() function?
Do you find yourself in need of a quick and easy way to "tokenize" time/date strings like "September 7th, 2010" into values like "9", "7", and "2010"?
Today I'm installing Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, the latest upgrade in the illustrious line of Adobe software. This series of image editing programs has rocked the commercial art world in a way that few could have predicted. If you're an outsider to the world of design, you probably don't realize how far Adobe reaches. I would venture to say that 90% of the printed and digital images you encounter have been produced by some portion of Adobe Creative Suite.
