Monthly Archives: March 2010

Homebrew Primer

By Mark | Published: March 30, 2010
I started my first batch of homebrew in 2002 in a big house on the Danforth. We were a poor students looking for cheap beer, with nothing but Google and our own resourcefulness to get us started. We bought some basic brewing equipment and it took a few tries, but within several weeks we were [...]
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PHP GD Library on Snow Leopard Macports

By Mark | Published: March 29, 2010
I recently went through a hellish upgrade to Snow Leopard and had to reinstall all my macports. When I emerged all the graphic imaging functions in a PHP project had died… no warnings, no error messages. After experimenting a bit I realized that the standard GD library wasn’t installed. Apparently in Snow Leopard macports, GD library doesn’t [...]
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Google Data API integration with CakePHP 1.2

By Mark | Published: March 28, 2010
I’ve been working on a social media mash-up which requires me to pull content out of Blogger and Youtube. Google obviously has a mighty API, and they’ve released an extensive client library which you can use to connect to their services. Alas the PHP client is designed for the Zend framework, whereas my project was [...]
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