Microshell

While this brain teaser can be applied to more than programming, I think it’s a very nice one to sharpen our problem-solving solution required to do a good programming.
There were 2 people, A and B. They joined together to have a meal. Person A brought 3 loafs of bread. Person B brought 5 loafs of [...]

It has been almost 1.5 years since I wrote my originalarticle. While I’m still cheap (read: always try to get the best deals out there) but other things have changed — especially in the built-in support of virtualization on some Linux distributions.
My new (used) server
So this time, I got my server Sun Fire v40z off [...]

Recently, I am in need to use SFTP on one of my PHP script. Fortunately, PHP does support it through SSH2 binding. Unfortunately, however, MAMP doesn’t come with SSH2 extension. So it looks like I have to recompile myself.
Adding SSH2 extension to your MAMP the easy way
I’ve compiled SSH2 extension for Mac. Note that it [...]

I encountered a situation at work that I feel would be a good brain teaser. I was working on a project and needed a way to swap values from 2 different rows in a SQL table. Obviously I can do it on client side (like PHP) to do it; but that wouldn’t be a good [...]

I’ve posteda while back. Now I’m getting tired of these bozos trying to hack my system in vain, wasting my bandwith and driving up fake page views on my StatPress. So I decided to patch wp-ban to include what I considered bad URLs.
Since I’ll be using wp-ban, it should go without saying that you need [...]