wade womersley – york based software engineer
Engineering notes from the sharp end
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Dotdeb.org have the PHP 5.4 series available for installation on Debian based OS’s, you can either do it manually or use my installation script I wrote to make the process easier. All you need to do is run: curl https://wade.one/blog/wp-content/uploads/php54.sh | sudo bash And it’ll do the rest for you! Feel free to just download … Read More “PHP5.4.3 Available on Dotdeb.org (Installs fine on Ubuntu)” »
Ondřej Surý has released apt-get’table packages for PHP 5.4 on Ubuntu. Instructions and installation are available from https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/php5 . Think I’ll keep custom building for now so I get total control but for the majority of people this is better than waiting until potentially October for it to hit the official channels.
Needed to use this recently to create a specificity parameter for an API at work, it gives you a key/value array from an ISO date string regardless of what is actually set in the string (e.g. if you give 2011-06-07 04 you’ll get an array back as array(‘year’=>2011, ‘month’ => 6, ‘day’ => 7, ‘hour’ … Read More “Regular Expression (Regex) For Date part extraction/array split” »
In my leedsphp talk last week I mentioned making a developer (and consumers) life easier by automatically implementing the allow methods functionality that your API may expose (e.g. you call PUT on a URL that only allows GET or POST). I did have an example slide there showing how to implement but I thought I’d … Read More “Automating “Implemented methods” for a web based API” »
Finally got around to uploading my slides (sorry for the delay!) for my talk at leedsphp on Monday 18th. They are now available online at http://www.slideshare.net/wadewomersley/building-a-horizontally-scalable-api-in-php
This is the BEST way to scare people, dress a girl up like the girl from The Ring and just get her to stand in a regular hotel hallway. Win!
UPDATE 14/07/2012: The author of the client has released version 2.5 a short while ago and also a video for using self-signed certificates in the client. RESTClient is a great little CLI and GUI tool for testing your REST API. I recently pushed a new API up in the office and it runs over SSL. … Read More “Using SSL in RestClient” »
I must confess, I love Glee and for some reason after season one I stopped watching – must catch up on it. So how do you make a show like Glee even better? Simple, get them to do a Rocky Horror episode!
This isn’t really safe for work (considering the volume of F word usage) but it’s a more modern version of the classic “uses of the word f**k” flash, the longer you watch, the harder it is to just not laugh out loud. Originally from http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/458275
