I finally made the switch! I’ve been working on migrating this old blog to Mephisto blogging system. Mephisto runs on Rails which I have blogged about before and still continue to love and swear by. The old blog I wrote in PHP a few years ago. I was just getting sick of re-inventing the wheel… Read more »
Posts By: Jason Gill
parsing XML with PHP on Apache2 server with apache-mod_php installed
There are many examples of how to parse through an XML document using PHP out on the web by doing a quick google search. I was having problems because even while following all of those examples, I was getting the following error: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xml_parser_create() Everywhere I searched said “you… Read more »
How to download Super from erightsoft
(NOTE: Since this post was first written, I have since abandoned Super for the far superior Movavi Video Converter which will do everything Super does, but is much easier to use and obviously much easier to download. It even rips DVDs which Super cannot do. It’s not free like Super, but it’s well worth the… Read more »
Yes, you can rsync between two local directories
I wanted to set up a cronjob to backup my photos from a Windows computer to my linux server. To do so I simply set Windows to share the photos directory, then mounted the directory in linux. The rsync command seemed like the most logical way to sync the mounted directory with my backup directory…. Read more »
A single Phone or Email field validated with Regular Expressions using Rails
In order to be more user friendly and make our forms as easy as possible to fill out, we’ve decided to combine email and phone number fields within our forms to be a single field and let the user decide which method of contact they prefer to give us quickly and easily. The field is… Read more »