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When unique isn’t really unique
24 Nov 2009Sometimes, an auto-generated number isn’t enough and what you really need is a unique identifier. Several people have different techniques for generating their unique identifiers. My favorite has been generating a random number and then hashing it through the md5 hash generator. Here’s an example I was once using:
<?php $unique_identifier = md5(rand(100000, 999999)); ?>
The problem [...]
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- Tags: php
Web APIs and Mashups Seminar in Jos
In: Events| General| Web Development
16 Nov 2009I spent last week in the city of Jos where I went to spend some time with my family and also attend my class reunion. I had an idea to organize a seminar where I’ll teach and talk about anything I thought would be cool and constitute new knowledge.
So I went about contacting some of [...]
Using git hooks to check syntax errors
25 Sep 2009Git is currently my favorite source code versioning tool and while I used Subversion, I knew about something called hooks that I never used.
Essentially, hooks allow you to execute custom scripts when you perform certain actions on your repository like committing files, pulling updates and so on. This is a very useful as you can [...]
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- Tags: drupal, git, php
Using Git over non-standard SSH ports
14 Sep 2009I’ve configured some deployment servers to use SSH over non-standard SSH ports and that can really be a problem when you want to use that with git. No matter what you do, git would always attempt to connect through the standard SSH port 22.
There was really no point in scratching my head and trying to [...]
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- Tags: git, SSH
Don’t ignore that warning
In: Web Development
29 Aug 2009Webmasters out there, how many times have you ignored the advice to backup your site when making an upgrade? Trust me, if you continue (like I’ve been doing) that way, it will come back to bite you one day.
Earlier today, I wrote a new post on this blog and having ignored the blog for a [...]
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- Tags: maintenance, wordpress
Why I’m a Map Maker
In: GIS| Web Development
23 Mar 2009I remember the first time I used Google Maps. I was thrilled with the ability to find places and locate them on a digital map. That was my first exposure to Geographic Information Systems. But I quickly grew out of it after a while and what was majorly because of the lack of localized information.
I [...]
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- Tags: Google, LBS, Maps, Mashups
Why every Web Developer needs an online presence
In: Web Development
20 Mar 2009It’s simple – visibility.
Loy Okezie recently published a blog post listing a few of what he thinks to be the top 100 web developers in Nigeria. I found the comments to be very educative and interesting.
I happen to know virtually everyone on that list and while some comments on the site and elsewhere were such [...]
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- Tags: Publicity
Internal web server access from the Internet
In: Web Development
20 Mar 2009Here’s the synopsis, I have a web development machine that has a NAT connection to the Internet and what that means is that I cannot access the machine directly from the Internet. So if I wanted a friend or colleague to test my work or say I’m at someplace remote and want to be able [...]
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- Tags: Apache, Linux, SSH
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- Ola White: Its what we've been waiting for for so long... Its time to get the buzz on... i just hope it w [...]
- Kizito S.M.: What I gather is that this G-Buzz is something like a blend between Facebook Updates and Twitter fol [...]
- concept37: They are trying to out-facebook facebook and out-twitter twitter, Folks who want to do these things [...]
- ray: Funny u took it from the LBS angle, which makes better sense. But from the social networking perspec [...]
- Ahmad Mukoshy: I've been using uniqid() for months now ;) #Lolz . I came across it on the php docs web site af [...]
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- Using git hooks to check syntax errors
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- Using Git over non-standard SSH ports