Timothy Bowler

Ubuntu 8.04 does not have sendmail installed by default. This was annoying when some of the php web apps that I created rely on sendmail to send out email notifications. But before going ahead and installing sendmail, I thought that I would try exim4. Installing on Ubuntu is very straight forward:

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I was refactoring a few developers code today, and one thing I see time and time again is two queries in favour of a left join, . The problem is symfony makes result set retrieval so easy (thanks to propel of course).

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A slight performance increase for Apache is to turn off the per-directory configuration files (.htaccess), and insert them into the virtual hosts configuration file. For each Symfony project that I set up the vhost file looks something like:

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The majority of the sites which I work on incorporate some pagination. Therefore I thought it was time to create a partial for the templates. This is the very first version. I have included a link to the file at the bottom. I’m in the process of setting up a public SVN repro so please bare with me.

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I couldn’t figure out why the same same project that was checked out of svn on my latop and on my desktop failed to build on my desktop. The solution was simple, yet lead me to believe it was due to the the package=”lib.model” attribute missing in the schema.xml file.

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