Posts Tagged ‘PHP’

XAMPP 1.6.5, PHP 5.2.5, and Symfony

I am no longer able to re-install Symfony via PEAR today – php.exe would consume 25% CPU (and more and more memory) while spinning in place forever (I aborted after 30 minutes). I suspect it had something to do with yesterday’s reinstallation of PHP 5.2.5 over XAMPP 1.6.4.
Funny thing is, I installed XAMPP 1.6.5 [...]

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PHP CLI crashes on Vista

I had XAMPP 1.6.4 with PHP 5.2.4 on my Vista machine. Every time I ran PHP in command line (CLI) it crashed miserably, though after completing the task at hand. I thought Vista’s User Access Control (UAC) was the culprit, but turning it off did zilch to fix the problem.
Turned out the real [...]

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Gravatar on my blog

Yesterday Automattic, the company behind WordPress the software and WordPress.com the free blog platform, acquired Gravatar and decided to give away premium services for free. Frankly, I had not heard of Gravatar before reading about the acquisition, but the word ‘free’ got my attention and I went ahead and created an account at the site.
Basically [...]

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