Zephir is an open source, high-level language designed to ease the creation and maintainability of extensions for PHP, with a focus on type and memory safety.
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Recently, I came across some confusion in the Express 4.x API documentation regarding how to use regex to validation route parameters. It seems there’s been an update and the method to accomplish this differs from version 4.11 and 4.12.
4.11
4.12
This is my second attempt at putting together any model car. My first attempt didn’t go as well as I initially…
This is an extension of my the RPF post.
Below is a very simple example of how to create a basic websocket using node.js. Websockets are great for maintaining a server/client relationship without as much of the overhead of HTTP web traffic.
This practice is becoming more common throughout sites (such as Twitter and Facebook) for changing a URL within the address bar without reloading another page. One of the most common use cases, allows users to bookmark or share URLs when sites are…
So I was an extra in a SportsCenter Commercial. We shot this a few months back and it’s just been released today!
I was impressed that ESPN actually flew out all the mascots from their respective colleges. Thanks to Erik Haddad for getting me…
Every year during Christmas, ESPN has a tradition to rolls TV credits for everyone behind the scenes. This year, I’m listed under Web Developer II :)
This image captures a few immensely talented individuals!
(attow) Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be a straight forward method for importing content nodes from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 without installing a module. Albeit, this isn’t the “best” method but hopefully, this snippet will at least assist in filling the void. There are a…
This is a simple pagination snippet I wrote for a Drupal module I was working on. I’ve “unDruaplized” it and now it’s completely independent.
The function will calculate the number of pages to display based on $total and $shown. In addition, it'll append the…
$total
$shown
This is a tutorial I wrote some time ago to help others that faced issues when trying to install World of Warcraft on…
APGAR is an encrypted token sent to the server to identify a user’s password. This is a one-way encryption routine and cannot be decrypted. All Command and Conquer game client passwords using this algorithm must be exactly 8 characters long.
For anyone looking to setup a virtual environment, this post should save you a bit of headache. There are quite a few paths you can choose when looking to setup some type of virtual management system: Virtualbox, VMware, and KVM just to name a few. Personally, I feel…
This post if for anyone looking to mount an external NTFS drive with read and write capability. This is particularly handy if you’re trying to use a Windows formatted external drive on Ubuntu.
I’ve had several headaches trying to configure samba to work properly with windows without being prompted to login every time I tried to access my share. This post should help those in need of accomplishing the same.
The following is derived from my post on the (now defunct) hawkee.com forums.
This is a hot topic for those just getting into php. Understanding the difference between print() and echo can be challenging for those unfamiliar with the language.
print()
echo
This tutorial is for anyone who wants to use a static ip instead of dhcp. Let’s face it, having a server using dhcp is a bad idea.
First we need to edit /etc/network/interfaces
/etc/network/interfaces
$ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
Below, I’ve created a very simple view template class. Similar to the ever popular Smarty framework, although not nearly as big or feature rich. Typically you would use this to separate design from code (mvc pattern), which makes things much easier to manage over time. Another use for…
This server is essentially used to organize games and provide player chat capabilities. Games however are played between clients (p2p) and not run over this server.
The server is heavily influenced by IRC therefore “game lobbies” are actually IRC…
