So looking through the Doctrine ODM docs on Query Building, I didn’t see anything that lent itself to a like query such as that is found in MySQL. There isn’t a like, option, but using Regular Expressions will work just fine for me. $queryBuilder->field(’title’)->equals(new \MongoRegex(’/keyword/i’)); That will perform a case-insensative query for the term ‘keyword‘… Read more »
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Thoughts on Zend Framework & Doctrine 2 Design
I usually structure my Zend Framework projects like the image on the right. This comes almost straight from the ZF documentation for recommended project structures http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/project-structure.project.html I’ve been stressing using PHPunit more and more in my projects and endevour to include tests for all my classes. When you are connected to a DB, it’s harder to… Read more »
The continuing Saga of Lion
Should you upgrade to OS X Lion??? Meh…. it’s presented more problems than previous upgrades.
Maybe I should have waited until 10.7.1, so this is my punishment for being bleeding edge.
Another issue I saw was the continual nag when I opened some apps (Billings and Cyberduck) that “This program was downloaded from the Internet… blah blah blah” This normally happens once for a program then goes away after you say “OK”, but this was happening everytime I opened those two programs.
The solution.
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Billings.app
This shut the bugger up.
Resources
https://discussions.apple.com/message/6930135#6930135
Unlocking iPhone 2G for Apple Firmware 3.1.2
Here are some instructions for unlocking the Apple iPhone 2G model with firmware version 3.1.2. I ran into a few problems, but having unlocked dozens of these from day one, I’ve yet to brick one.
- Download the firmware version from apple. You want the 3.1.2 version 250MB
- Connect the phone to iTunes
- Hold down the OPTION button and click the “Restore” button. This will prompt you for a firmware file, located the file you just downloaded
- Sometimes the upgrade gives an error message after its done, I’ve yet to have a problem so you can safely ignore it if you get one.
- Download blackra1n by geohot
- Unzip and run blackra1n with the iPHone plugged into the computer. It only takes a minute and after it reboots the iPhone will be jailbroken with a new app on the springboard
- Run blackra1n on the iPhone and install Cydia
- Run Cydia… it will update it self several times, you just want graphical mode and essential updates
- When this is done you’ll want to install BootNeuter using Cydia
- Run the BootNeuter app and you’ll see this screen, then click ‘flash’. When I performed this, the phone seemed to freeze. I tried rebooting the phone, but it became 100% unresponsive. After 5 minutes it rebooted and it seems it worked.
Italic fonts in Firefox Interface [solved]
A coworker had this problem. After installing a plugin-update, the fonts on her Firefox interface were all italic. We combed over the preferences to no avail, then a simple Google search revealed the answer.
- Open Font Book
- Find Lucida Grand Regular
- Right Click > Reveal in Finder
- Delete it. AAHHHHH!!!! Yes, I’m sure, delete it,
- Witness the true power of a fully operational Mac Station, it suddenly recreates the font for you. Amazing
Now of course you need to restart Firefox, and everything was cool.
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Rebuilding the iPhoto library
The number of photos I have in iPhoto is around 10,000. I like the new faces feature, but it just kept grinding my CPU for hours and hours and days and days. I stumbled on a way to rebuild the iPhoto library, but it’s really hidden and I’ve never run across this type of a setup from Apple Software.
Essentially you need to hold down Option + Command while starting iPhoto and keep them held down until you get a window asking you what you want to rebuild. Interesting.
Time Machine Network Backup
Fate has not blessed you with a tower of money such as Uncle Scrooge, so a Time Capsule is not an option, but you have a network share either at work or home you can. Enter the Time machine hack that will let you backup your Mac to a network share.
Pros
- No need to plug in an external drive to your Macbook Pro
- You can back up multiple computers to the same file server
- Utilize the power of Wifi
Cons
Color Picker Application for Apple Mac OS X
To create websites and graphics being able to pick colors is important. Many times you see a great color and you want to sample and get the [HEX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Hex_triplet “Web colors – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”) number of the color to use. In the past I’ve used the [ColorZilla](http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/ “ColorZilla Extension for Firefox and Mozilla”) extension for [Firefox](http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ “Firefox web browser | Faster, more secure, & customizable”).
