Christopher Craig

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Looking at PHP5’s DateTime and DateTimeZone

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undocumenting php: it’s about time
Missing documentation for PHP’s new DateTime object. Finally support for dates after 2038.

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I stumbled across this little gem of knowledge a few weeks ago. Who knew that a command as simple as mkdir could be this useful? I’m just starting a new web development project, and I was setting up my directory structure which involved sub-directories inside sub-directories. That’s a lot of typing (I [...]

I’ve been playing around with Subversion for the past couple of weeks. It’s a version control system similar to CVS. I use it to keep track of the software I write. So, at any time, I can go back and check out the state of a project from any day. It’s [...]

I spent about 4 hours last night finalizing my backup solution for my home network. That is, at least until I set up a raid 5 in the new year.
I already had my server backing up my music every night to a 40 gigger I had lying around, but I also wanted to backup [...]

A while ago, I installed Fedora Core 5 on my server. The only problem I had was that my gigabit ethernet card wouldn’t work for some reason. It was really frustrating because my Mac has a gigabit controller, and I wanted to be able to transfer files between the two really fast. [...]

I’ve been using a web-based torrent manager called TorrentFlux-b4rt for the past few weeks. It’s a great script that allows me to manage my downloads from any computer with an internet connection. Also, I can place a torrent file in a folder on the server and TorrentFlux will pick it up and start downloading [...]

Well, work was slow today, so I finally decided to figure out how to use ssh keys. I already understood the basic idea of a public/private key pair, but I’d never used one like this before.
Basically, I put my public key on any server I want to access to (and have an account on), [...]

Well, it was a lot of work, but with Geoff’s help, I finally got Linux installed on my server. I now have all my drives consolidated under one logical volume, so effectively, I have one drive with over 600GB of space :).
Unfortunately though, I couldn’t get my gigabit ethernet card to work. After [...]

I’ve been holding off putting linux on my laptop for quite a while because it was difficult to get WPA encryption working. There was never any native support for it, and I didn’t want to use WEP because it doesn’t provide any security.
Recently though, a package was released that handled WPA properly, and it’s [...]