Mariano July 24th, 2008
Its important for programmers to be able to quickly identify all usage of a function. Knowing where and how a function is called helps greatly in understanding the intent of the code and allows the programmer to refactor with confidence.
There aren’t any tools for PHP that identify function usage, the way one might do with Java using Eclipse. The recent release of Zend 6 for Eclipse comes closer with its refactor feature, but only refactors within a single file and not across a project.
I solve this need with a handy grep call. The following grep finds all usage and definitions of a PHP function, and omits results from .svn directories. Just replace FUNC_NAME with the name of the function you’re investigating.
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Mariano July 18th, 2008
This is the 50 mile cycling route I rode with Lan, Dennis, and Jill during the “Bike for Breath” event on July 12, 2008. The route consists of moderate rolling hills, with the only steep climb being the short jaunt up Edgewood. The official ride map indicates 1,887 ft. of climbing - not much for a 50 mile route.
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Mariano July 17th, 2008
I recently setup a new MacBook Pro for web development. While trying to mount a samba share I discovered MacFusion, an application that lets you treat various remote storage mechanisms as if they were folders on your local hard drive. MacFusion is built on top of MacFuse, which is the OSX port of the Linux based FUSE that facilitates building filesystems that run in userspace.
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Tags: fuse, macfusion, osx, samba
Mariano July 9th, 2008
I’ve been investigating how to send notification emails when changes are committed in a Subversion repository. Two interesting options I found are svnnotify and svnmailer.
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Tags: svn