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Archives for September, 2008

The Sun Also Rises (on the Technology Coast)

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. -Ecclesiastes 1:5-6 Apple released Mac OS X in 1999, using a BSD core and embracing many libraries and utilities of the open source world.  [...]

Mysql Gem on Leopard

After getting a whole lot of errors, I found the only way I could get this gem to work is the following: -Install x86 version of mysql -Install Gem like the following: sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql –with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config –remote I hope that helps…

Write and Validate XML with a DTD in Memory in .Net

This is the sample of piecing together a lto of different posts, so I thought I’d put a sample on the web… I’m putting it in VB.Net (because I was writing in it due to project requirements Imports System.Xml Imports System.Xml.Schema Imports System.Text Imports System.IO Public Class MyXMLTool   Private sb As New StringBuilder(“”)   Private [...]

Simple MasterPages with PHP

If you are an ASP.Net developer used to working with MasterPages (or any equivalant on another framework), you may be looking for an equivalant while working with php.  I was looking to do something like that with my homepage (hoolihan.net).  This is a very simple site, where a full framework would have been overkill. Here’s [...]