Compile PHP 5.3.11 on Debian Squeeze

by Andrzej Ośmiałowski on May 2, 2012

Personally, I don’t like installing web servers, PHP, database engines from repository. Installing latest version released requires adding third part repository (DotDeb.org on Debian or EPEL on CentOS). You may basically don’t want to add any third party repository on your production server. Alternatively, in some cases, it may cause some dependency problems. In this post, I’ll describe how to compile PHP 5.3.11 (the latest release from 5.3 branch) on Debian Squeeze (steps are identical in every Linux distributions).

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Change timezone on OpenVZ virtualization container

by Andrzej Ośmiałowski on May 1, 2012

Virtual Private Servers are quite popular nowadays – having one allows the owner to have a container with dedicated resources, install own software. Sometimes you may need to adjust the timezone on the server. This post will show you a fast way to do that.

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Troubleshooting #2: PDO + SQLite = Unable to open database file

by Andrzej Ośmiałowski on September 11, 2011

Recently I was working on a system where SQLite database was used as data storage engine. There were some problems with the development version of the application but was resolved very quickly. However I faced one problem that took over 20 minutes to get resolved.

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Troubleshooting #1: Symfony 2 + FOSUserBundle: Confirmation email issues

by Andrzej Ośmiałowski on August 30, 2011

New posts series on my blog. It’s called Troubleshooting. There will be short posts that will help users solve uncommon problems they may face in web development.

On Stack Overflow, Symfony discussion board I recently saw questions about FOSUserBundle confirmation issues. Basically emails are not being sent. This post will help you solve that “issue”.

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Blog. Reactivation.

by Andrzej Ośmiałowski on May 15, 2011

After some time of inactivity I’ve made a decision to reactivate my blog. Why? There are many reasons – one of them is need to share my knowledge with the community. There are many blogs when you can find useful informations, but there are many blogs when you can find only useless “top 10″ posts.

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Essential Web Development Security Tips

by Andrzej Ośmiałowski on September 15, 2010

Security is one of the most important aspects of web development. Your website can be attacked using multiple methods, with human or automated attacks. From the other hand, website visitor can destroy your app unconsciously, for example by putting some characters in the form input. That’s the reason why you need to pay attention to create secure code. By applying only few advices you may make your website more secure. In many web tutorials you can find: “add security later”, “input needs to be escaped”. Leaving security aspects of coding it’s a really bad habit. You need to think about securing your app at the begining of the development stage.

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