I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a presentation given by whurley at a refreshBCS meeting a long time ago. He gave his presentation on Open Source Software, only SLIGHTLY an era of his expertise (just in case you can’t tell, that was sarcasm) and raise an interesting point.
He talked about how when BMC Software [...]
Tower Of Power
Bugs
OSS Bugs Are Features
Weird errors and XDebug to save the day!
I had an interesting (and by interesting I mean completely mindbogglingly frustrating) error that I cannot summarize.
To start things off I notice to my dismay visiting a specific page on my website would result in a white screen (as would be expected for a fatal PHP error with error_reporting turned off). Problem is I have [...]
Updates and ::’s
In my previous article (Microsoft Access and PHP), I discussed getting mdbtools setup and dynamically interacting with a instance of mdb-sql. Well it turns out somewhere in the pipeline (probably mdb-tools), we’re either not getting an EOF or reading an EOF right and as such I can read lines from the program’s STDOUT stream, but [...]

