Microshell

On my previous article, I’ve discussed two ways to For most situation, one of those two solutions should be sufficient. There are times, however, that you need more features than the default and therefore need to customize one or more components of your MAMP stack.
For me, the need comes when I need PCNTL extension for [...]

This article will focus on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I have no access to earlier versions of Mac OS X, so I’m afraid I can’t help you much more than providing this link.
There are many ways to enable MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) stack, but the best way, I think, is to use [...]

There are times when you want to alter schema for all tables in the database. For example, let’s say in your project you have multiple databases with multiple tables on each of them. Suppose that you have columns within that table defined as DECIMAL(11,6). What it means is that the column will have 11 digits [...]

One of the “problem” in using SVN with branches is that you have to figure out which revisions to apply. In most cases, one could not simply take the HEAD version and simply merge that to a branch or TRUNK.
On this page, I’ll attempt to explain why we can’t simply merge the HEAD version. On [...]

I’ve known the concept of PHP’s variable-variable from when I start working with PHP years ago. I thought it’s a neat feature that I’m not sure what, if any, it is useful for. Just recently, I found that it’s actually useful for me while generating XML using SimpleXML. If you’ve never heard about variable-variable, then [...]