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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 [...]

I normally post tutorials, how-tos or the likes. This post is a little bit different than the others. It’s more like a thought that I came across when I finally decided to use PHP’s exception handling.
Here’s the basic form of PHP’s exception handling.

try {
// Do something
} catch (DataErrorException $e) {
// Handle data error here
} catch [...]

I have no idea why I would want to solve sudoku in PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL. My guess would be just for the fun of it. I’m also hoping that it can serve as a tutorial example in programming PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL.
So what is sudoku? It is basically a number puzzle where the objective is to fill 9×9 [...]