http://filiptepper.com try...catch the moment Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:27:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently I was working on a command line PHP script. I know that there are better ways to do things, but I didn't want to use any other language, since most developers in our company know mainly PHP. The script exec's MySQL command to execute a batch of SQL queries. I ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/11/09/hint-reading-stderr-output-in-php/ Back to my tech-blogging, hopefully for good! This is just a quick note to let you know that there's new VPS hosting service launching and it requires your input. Webbynode is giving out free beta accounts for Ruby on Rails, Django and PHP (and more!) applications. I have a couple of drafts ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/11/09/beta-webbynode-vps-provider/ For a couple of months I've been developing some Adobe AIR applications - all of them require local SQLite databases. To get the job done I needed an application that would ease SQLite DB management. After some googling SQLite Manager poped up. It's a pretty easy yet powerful tool - can ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/09/17/tool-sqlite-manager/ My current Ruby on Rails project requires SEO-friendly URL-s. I've installed acts_as_slugable plugin, but soon I found out that all my slugs contained Polish characters (in UTF-8). After some googling (Polish Ruby on Rails forum) and some more sips of coffee I came up with some modifications to acts_as_slugable. Here's lib/acts_as_slugable_ascii.rb: ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/05/05/hint-discarding-non-ascii-characters-in-ruby-on-rails/ For the last couple of weeks I've been working on a small Ruby on Rails application (and learning both Ruby and Rails in the same time). Since everyone's talking about the one-and-only Rails way, I wanted to make my little app as Rails as possible. That means that you have ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/04/08/hint-nice-urls-with-observe_field/ So, you have a nifty Ruby on Rails application, got yourself a cheap Dreamhost account and you want to give Capistrano a try. And what do you get - errors. This occurs if you have Ruby gems installed in your home directory (probably ~/.gems/). I'm assuming that you already have your ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/03/24/hint-deploying-ruby-on-rails-applications-on-dreamhost-with-capistrano/ For a couple of months I've been developing a Firefox extension called BlipFox - an interface to Blip, Polish way-better-than-the-original-Twitter-clone. With Firefox 3 coming soon I had to get my extension ready for the final release. Due to some chrome changes and bugs I had to update some code related to ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/03/20/hint-detecting-firefox-3-in-extensions/ Since sometimes I'm awfully lazy - I got myself a second keyboard, just for the sake of not having to carry one to office and back. At home I use my beloved Apple Keyboard, while at work - a crappy, no-name, ten-bucks-a-piece one (it does it job, though!). However, since at ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/03/18/hint-using-windows-keyboard-in-os-x-leopard/ For quite a few weeks I've been using Fluid with Google Reader - having a standalone WebKit based application with dock notification works great for me. However, one thing has been bothering me - Fluid never clears the dock badge when all the items are read. I've just posted a ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/03/01/release-fluids-google-reader-fix/ Ext has it's up and downsides, but is indeed a great framework if you need out-of-the-box set of tools for complex layout development. However we've noticed that Ext's HtmlEditor has problems with content that is pasted into the textarea (we used Firefox 2.0 on both Linux and Windows - never ... http://filiptepper.com/2008/02/01/hint-pasting-content-into-exts-111-htmleditor/