For a domain’s cert prior to expiry (within 30 days though), the existing CSR can simply be submitted to the cert provider and payment made etc for renewal if one isn’t changing any cert details e.g. company name etc. Then… Read More
Harnessing the speed of Mysqli Prepared Statements
For a few years, I’ve been using mysqli prepared statements for all php-mysql interations on all of my websites because of the inherent mysql injection protection afforded by the separation of query and data. What I have not done is… Read More
Merging the right way around in Netbeans/Mercurial
I’m new to working with revision control and sometimes get confused with merge terminology resulting in me merging the wrong way. For future reference: To transfer all the latest changes in the main trunk to the development branch, update to… Read More
Netbeans Mountain Lion Mercurial Problems
For PHP development, I use Netbeans with revision control handled by its built-in Mercurial integration. Since installing Mountain Lion the other day, the Mercurial function of Netbeans had not been working. I did not see any errors, just a lack… Read More
Flickering Dell U2412M LCD on certain grays
I’ve had an annoyance with my otherwise fantastic* Dell U2412M LCD where certain greys appear flickery. It happens on both the display port and the DVI input with a dongle from my Macbook Pro. Today I discovered that there is… Read More
RAM hogging mediumtext (MySQL)
Php can easily exceed its maximum allowed RAM allocation when trying to retrieve mediumtext fields from mysql. Background: Through some obscure misunderstanding/bug, I have from time to time ended up with a MySQL database that has mediumtext instead of the… Read More