The Abstracts of My BrainAn engineer's technical notes and programming solutionsI really like Linux and MacOS over Windows. The commands and syntax feel more comfortable, the tooling more reliable (IMO), probably because I've managed Linux servers for some tim
Problem: While running some unit tests on a managed project, I ran across an issue from the Guzzle library. cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certi
Problem: When uninstalling the old version and installing the new version of vagrant (along with the requires system restarts), I was met by this message when trying to boot up my
Problem: While working on a some development, there became an issue with the ISP and they hijacked all HTTP requests to return a notice explaining that an issue needed to be resolv
Problem: I went to verify phpunit installation on my windows machine and found that when running pear.bat, I was met with the following: $ pear.bat ./pear.bat: line 1: @ECHO: comma
Problem: Needing a database with a little more flexibility than MySQL, I decided to give PostgreSQL Server a try. While installing the latest version on Windows 7 (64 bit), I ran i
Problem: Installing Sphinx Search on my computer to do some testing, I bypassed the heavy documentation in hopes of a quick start-up. Instead, on trying to start the Sphinx Search
Problem: Recently I installed some screen sharing software on my computer. After the installation, Windows Aero (the system that handle window decoration, coloring, and transparenc
I recently started reading about implementing Selenium Server into my testing process. I quickly downloaded the jar file from their website and opened up my cmd.exe application. Wh
Problem: I recently developed an application for the Android market and was excited to test it out on an actual Android device. I plugged in my T-Mobile G2 phone, set the USB Debug
Here is another short simple post of something I had to figure out and could not find documented anywhere. Problem: When install the Symfony MVC on my localhost (Windows Vista), I
It recently came to my attention when performing a Disk Cleanup, that Windows has begun telling me I have 4.70 EB (fyi 1 Exabyte = 1073741824 GB, I guarantee my laptop only has 120
I learned about this at work and thought it was really cool and figured I would put it on my blog. If you are like me, sometimes you want to take screen shots of just one window or
While working on a lab for one of my classes, I was writing a cgi script in Perl to manage log files for the web admin of a web site. I feel new to all things Perl and so debugging
