Installing PHP on RHEL 4

Had to install PHP5 with SOAP support on a server. The server was a fresh RHEL4 edition. It’s been a while I setup PHP on a server and our sys admin was on leave, so I decided to do it. My experience in installing PHP on a server has been this: no matter how many […]

Keyword Generator

Here’s another Logic Builder! Write an application that will take a block of text as input and generate a list of keywords from it. You can make the app as simple or as complex as you want. A few notes: You can remove words with less than 3 characters You can remove common words You […]

ffmpeg – mov uploaded from mac

Facing a strange problem! I have a few mov files that I want to convert to SWF. Have a web interface to upload the files, and then php calls ffmpeg to do the conversion. This thing works fine if I upload files from Windows. But if I upload an mov from Mac, it processes most […]

FDS install woes – space broke it?

This may not be relevant, but it’s something we struggled with FDS so I will share. We had CF running on the machine, setup FDS and the built in JRun server. Made all the changes to the .xml files. The java-dao examples worked well, but when we moved to CF, it started giving weird problems. […]