Are you trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of your Zend Framework application? Once you have implemented caching for queries, templates, etc. there is still one other piece of the puzzle you can cache, the application.ini config. For every page load, this config has to be read…
CF Quick Tip: Display a CFINPUT Element from a CFC
Let’s say you want to write a helper function in a ColdFusion Component (CFC) library, that will draw a HTML FORM field for you and you need to do so using a CFINPUT tag. The ColdFusion compiler will complain if the CFINPUT tag is not inside a CFFORM tag inside…
SVN Tip: Preview Incoming Changes (With GIT Bonus)
I had to figure out if any of the incoming Source Code Control changes from the upstream SVN repository was going to clobber any of my local changes. Any time I have to google and figure out the best solution I think it is a good time to share. This…
A Little Bit of Love from BASH
That’s fascinating and all, but aren’t we supposed to be learning about something called BASH history, auto-complete?
MySQL Tip: Drop All Tables (With PostgreSQL Bonus)
Certain DBALs and ORMs don’t provide a functional reset method to clear out schema cruft before rebuilding tables (I’m looking at you, Django). Others like SilverStripe tip toe around your schema, appending-never-deleting, so nothing ever gets flat out broken by a rebuild. That behavior is OK with me because their scope usually…