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MongoDB and PHP Primer
January 8, 2015 - Categories: IT/Software Projects,How-to Guides
I recently used MongoDB in the Share Your Salary app and had a few hiccups as I tried to blunder my way through learning how to use it. MongoDB, like many NoSQL document databases, uses JavaScript Object Notation or JSON to represent the objects/documents. JSON is great, especially when you're using JavaScript in conjunction. PHP, however, doesn't 'speak' JSON natively; it uses arrays instead, and this makes for some less than intuitive interactions. This post will go over some of the basic CRUD operations using PHP against a MongoDB.
Introduction to OpenShift
January 3, 2015 - Categories: How-to Guides,Utilities And Other Useful Things
OpenShift is a Platform-as-a-Service offering provided by Red Hat. It's built on top of Linux containers (which they refer to as 'gears') hosted in Amazon's Amazon Web Services (AWS). They offer many different platforms such as PHP/Apache, JBoss, Tomcat, NodeJS, Python, Ruby-on-Rails, and many more. OpenShift refers to these pre-built platforms as 'cartridges.'
Download All Files From A Site With wget
December 2, 2014 - Categories: How-to Guides,Utilities And Other Useful Things
I recently got a membership to a site hosting a boatload of private label rights (PLR) material (IDPLR.com). 99% of PLR items are scams, garbage, or are outdated, but if you have the time or tools to dig through it you can find some gems. (Just so we're clear, I'm not running any scams, I was just looking for some content for another project). Anyway, I got access to the site that had thousands of zip files but obviously didn't want to download them one by one. Administrator wouldn't give me any way to download the files in bulk either, so I was left with no choice but to automate...
Who’s that person in that thing? App
July 28, 2014 - Categories: IT/Software Projects
I've been looking for an API project for awhile now, either to write an API service or a client/app that consumes one. Then I finally thought of a use case - an app that would allow you to find an actor based on two movies they've been in, using only JavaScript and APIs. It took me awhile to find a movie API service that was free and suited my purposes, then I found TheMovieDB (which has a pretty sweet API actually and is free to use). Check out the demo and grab the source from GitHub if you want to do something similar.
HTML Resume Template
July 21, 2014 - Categories: Utilities And Other Useful Things
I'll keep this short since it's not a proper how-to post or lengthy tutorial. I recently discovered a resurgence in the concept of HTML resumes and was thoroughly impressed. As always, I recklessly decided I should take a stab at it myself even though I knew I was out of my depth. Ended up with a half-decent HTML5/responsive/mobile-friendly resume using Bootstrap 2.3 and wanted to share it with the masses. Check out the demo and if you want to build on it, grab the source. Enjoy.