SELinux will block PHP/Apache from connecting to PostgreSQL (and probably any other DB) by default on some Linux distributions. If you are trying to get PHP to connect to a PostreSQL DB on a linux box for the first time and you are sure your pg_hba.conf on the target box is setup correctly then try [...]
I just finished testmywireless.com. It is a mobile-targeted website that allows you to test your wireless bandwidth on mobile phones or tablets that do not have Flash support (I.e. iPhone) without installing an app. It is intended to be used as a comparison shopping tool for folks in the market for smartphones and tablets. To [...]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in collaboration with the FCC has published a series of broadband maps on a new site called National Broadband Map (NBM). These maps show what broadband services are available throughout the United States as well as other interesting broadband data. Hit this link and click the “Explorer the [...]
I recently started tinkering with the Appcelerator Titanium Development Platform and have run into a couple quirks. Web Inspector will not Launch If you create a Titanium project on any drive other than C:\ on a Windows system, you will not be able to launch the Web Inspector. This is a apparently a known bug [...]
I recently installed PHP 5.2.14 on a Windows 2003 machine running IIS 6 with FastCGI to do some PHP testing at home. I chose the fast CGI install and added several extensions during the install including Curl and Oracle. When I attempted pull a test page after the install completed, I saw the following php-cgi.exe [...]
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