I regularly process presentation recordings and encode them into streaming formats. I have repeatedly run into the problem of the near impossibility of converting the gotomeeting WMV format. GoToMeeting seems to be able to record presentations in two variations: the Continue reading
If you use DirectoryPress 7.0.9 you may have noticed that the CSV export function isn’t working properly. This is going to be a quick “edit this here” fix. Edit the admin-save.php file in your /wp-content/themes/directorypress/admin directory. Find around line 1105 or so. Continue reading
I’m working with a large dataset. One of the columns is set as an INT(8) but not all of the values are 8 digits. I need to run a query that will sum values and group by the first two Continue reading
I was following the instructions here to install memcache on a CentOS 6 server that I’m currently configuring. I was able to install the base memcache rpm, but had trouble when installing the PECL extension for PHP. The first error Continue reading
I just encountered an unexpected error while creating a portable development server on a USB stick using the latest version of XAMPP portable. This particular application runs on the CakePHP framework and was copied directly from another functioning Windows based Continue reading
One of my current projects requires extremely heavy use of very large data sets housed in sever MySQL databases and spread across several servers. This data feeds various web apps, business processes, and fulfills many requests. It is data that Continue reading
I was doing some work on one of the development servers today and ran across the need to restart the MySQL server after making some configuration changes. This is the command I ran: user@machine:/etc/mysql$ service mysql restart And this is Continue reading
I recently set up a development server in a VirtualBox VM running Ubuntu server 11.04. My plan was to move a development database and website to this VM and migrate away from a local XAMPP installation on a Windows box. Continue reading
I just realized that none of the recent orders in one of the Virtue Mart installations I manage were showing up. It looks like the most recent one was….three months ago. But when I search for a more recent order Continue reading
Ok, so a ton of people keep asking me about how to order child products in the dropdown list. I don’t develop with VirtueMart much anymore so the suggestions I give here are mere suggestions and have not been tested Continue reading