Category Archives: programming
Faceted Search With Sphinx
I decided to use the Sphinx search engine for the GeeQe iPhone app I build last year because it was fast and had a very small memory footprint. Recently I wanted to experiment with a search interface that had facets and wondered if I would need to move away from Sphinx to something like Solr. [...]
iPad Streaming Video and More
I've updated the configuration examples in the open source segmenter project to reflect Apple's recommended stream bitrates for iPad video streaming, added a few fixes and a few new features. If you are interested in streaming video on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch and haven't done so yet you it may help to start [...]
Using Cursors with PHP MySQLi and Multiple Prepared Statements
After my post on using PHP MySQLi and multiple prepared statements at the same time someone commented that using cursors could do the same thing. With that comment I dug some more and found that modifying the cursor type that is used under the covers will indeed let you execute multiple prepared statements concurrently on [...]
Spring 3 File Upload Example
I had the opportunity to figure out how to do file uploads using Spring 3 the other day and I couldn't find anything that pulled it all together. What follows is a complete example of how to do MVC based file uploads with Spring 3.
Using Daemon-Kit and RobustThread to Build Ruby Daemons
On a number of occasions I have found myself needing to assemble a daemon process for some type or processing done using Ruby. Each time I roll things a little different and I finally started to wonder if someone had already put together tools for doing the daemon parts. After some quick digging I ran [...]
Building HipHop PHP for Fedora 12 on 64 bit and 32 bit Systems
Now that Facebook has finally released the source for HipHop PHP it is time to give it a spin. Of course it is still a little rough around the edges so I figured I would toss together a quick howto on getting it to build. The first thing to note is that they are only [...]
PHP MySQLi and Multiple Prepared Statements
While sprucing up the PHP code I use to provide my own Stack Overflow API for GeeQe I ran into an error caused by trying to use multiple prepared statements with MySQLi. It turned up when I tried to execute one prepared statement while looping over the result set from another prepared statement that were [...]
Developing Adobe Air Apps with Linux
I finally found a little project I wanted to do using Adobe Air and after some searching I found out you can use Linux to develop Air applications. At first I thought I would have to use Flex Builder which is still in alpha for Linux but it turns out there is a better option [...]
Heroku Tips for the Cheap
I've been playing around with the Ruby/Rails cloud provider Heroku a little bit lately just to try it out. It is somewhat like Google App Engine or Microsoft Azure in the way it works since you bundle your application and push it out to the Heroku cloud for deployment. It is very easy to get [...]
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