When viewing your SSL certification details in Chrome you may notice an annoying yellow warning icon with the error message “Your connection had to be retried using SSL 3.0 This typically means the server is using very old software and may have other security issues” This warning technically doesn’t affect or hurt anything but of [...]
Install Image Magick for PHP on OSX
These instructions will install the ImageMagick binaries as well as the PHP extension for the default OSX Apache/PHP setup. If you prefer not to use MacPorts there are binaries available, however you may have to deal with some dependencies and configuration on your own. 1. Install ImageMagick sudo port install ImageMagick 2. Install imagic module [...]
Installing LAMP Stack on OSX 10.7 Lion
This is a follow-up to my previous article on installing a LAMP Stack on Snow Leopard and explains the steps that you need to get Lion up and running for LAMP development. (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP in case you don’t already know). Lion comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP 5.3.6 so you only need [...]
Working with dates in Flex AIR and SQLite
UPDATE 3/25/09: Paul Robertson from the AIR team stopped by and writes that declaring your SQLite column affinity (ie column type) as “DATE” will instruct AIR to handle all date conversions for you automatically. The problems I experienced mainly surfaced in a DataGrid when using a DateField and I have not had a chance to [...]
Installing PHP To Run on Both IIS and Apache on Windows
Installing PHP to run on Windows through IIS is pretty simple because there is an installation wizard that does everything for you. But, those of us who also have Apache running for development need to have Apache process PHP pages too. This is a walkthrough to get both running. This will run PHP in CGI [...]