Chris Tate-Davies

An archive of helpful tit bits of information for development, and probably some stuff that is incomplete, wrong or boring…

ThreadSMS – Review

My Nokia doesn’t have threaded SMS view – and its very annoying. So, after searching about for a suitable application for this, I came across ThreadSMS by eHandySoft (http://ehandysoft.com/threadsms.htm) Functionality: Quick to load, and quick to navigate. On my N97 mini the scrolling was very smooth and precise. The threads are loaded with contact pictures [...]

Reading the MySQL binary log

Having MySQL dumping out binary logs is a very good failsafe for backup redundancy. But, how do you get any of the information out of them? If you know a time span that you need to investigate, then you can easily use the mysqlbinlog utility: mysqlbinlog –start-datetime=”2010-07-27 14:30:00″ –stop-datetime=”2010-07-27 15:00:00″ > backup.txt This will export [...]

Accessing the Zend_Application from a page

If, like me, you need to access some Zend_Application resources (such as multidb resources) – then you need a reference to the Zend_Application and the bootstrap. I use this: if (null == $this->_application) { $this->_application = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance() ->getParam(‘bootstrap’); }

  • Chris Tate-Davies

    Hello there. This is my little "repository" on the world wide web. Its for nothing more than documenting things that I might need again in the future. You could describe it as an extension to my memory.

    Also an online collaboration of my thoughts through the day. I'll try to keep the real random stuff out and keep the blog on course.

    Thanks for stopping by... Hope you find what you're looking for...

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