Migrating a PHP application to Ruby on Rails

Being primarily a PHP / Python developer, I decided to tackle something new and take on ruby on rails. It's been quite a whirlwind, and one of my exersizes was to attempt to migrate a pre-existing PHP application, that already has its database defined, some HTML and so on... to a rails application. This article … Continue reading Migrating a PHP application to Ruby on Rails

Nugget Post : Setting LDAP connection timeout for PHP

Problem : in some scenarios, for example running a periodic health check on an LDAP / AD server, you may want to set a low timeout so that if a server does not answer LDAP bind requests, a user is notified in a reasonable amount of time. Also, if your PHP code is blocking, a … Continue reading Nugget Post : Setting LDAP connection timeout for PHP