Utoxin's Random Insanity » Linux

CakePHP + Symlinks = Pain

Utoxin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:07:45 +0000

Now that I’ve had a day or so to recover, I’m going to tell you about what I just spent 2-3 weeks trying to resolve. By way of explanation, our main product at work is a CakePHP based CMS application. …

Screening files on push in a git repo

Utoxin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:14:22 +0000

I recently had the need to make sure that files that were pushed to a git repository had a required string in them. It took a few hours, but here’s what I came up with to do it: #!/bin/sh …

Randomized .signature file

Utoxin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:27:26 +0000

Here’s a quicky. I like to have a random quote in my signature, but most mail clients only read a static file, and trying to fool them with a command pipe socket is tricky, and often has other issues. So …

CakePHP mod_rewrite optimization

Utoxin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:46:52 +0000

CakePHP is great, but the default installation has a performance issue that is very easy to resolve, and should be fixed in any production installation of a CakePHP application. The solution is very simple. In the default install, there is …

Gnome still wins

Utoxin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:53:34 +0000

One of my friends convinced me to try out KDE again. I’ve never been real settled on a window manager for Linux, alternating between Gnome, KDE, and other random ‘lightweight’ WMs. But, I figured I’d give KDE another shot since …