I’m in Kota Kinabalu for holiday. Sorry for no updates about PHP Meetup 3.0. ashrufzz has made an interesting review on it.

What I’ve Learned From PHP Meetup 3.0 (Part I)
What I’ve Learned From PHP Meetup 3.0 (Part II)

Thanks goes to ashrufzz. We’re looking forward to conduct grand event for the next meetup. See you [...]

Posted on July 26th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Events | 5 Comments »

Yesterday, The Mambo Foundation announced that they will use CakePHP for the next version of Mambo and at the same day I presented about CakePHP at PHP Meetup 3.0.
You can download my slide here and the announcement is here.

Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: CakePHP, Open Source | No Comments »

PHP Meetup 3.0 will be held on 21 July 2007 at Faculty Information Technology & Quantitative Science (FTMSK), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Selangor. From 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. If you’re interested to come, please put your name & email, here. Speakers list will be updated soon.
See you there!

Posted on July 15th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Events | 1 Comment »

If you would like to read & write to your ntfs partition (windows’s partition), installing ntfs-3g on your machine is a better solution. This is the method I used to install ntfs-3g on my debian etch :
1. Remove old libfuse (if any) :
sudo apt-get remove libfuse2 fuse-utils
2. Get required package:

wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/ntfs-3g_1.328-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/n/ntfs-3g/libntfs-3g0_1.328-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.6.3-2_i386.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2007/04/10/debian/pool/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.6.3-2_i386.deb
3. Install [...]

Posted on July 13th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian | 12 Comments »

In Cakephp 1.1, if you want to display an image with a link, you’ll need to do something like this:

echo $html->link(
$html->image(’myimage.jpg’),
[...]

Posted on July 11th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: CakePHP | 1 Comment »

I had a problem connecting mysql from DBDesigner4. Error occurs :
Connection to database failed.
dbExpress Error: Invalid
Username/Password
Username/Password spelled correctly. The problem is because DBDesigner4 was designed for MySQL 3.x.x. For MySQL 4 and higher we have to do the old password trick. This is the solution which is works fine for me. In your terminal, [...]

Posted on July 9th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Open Source | 2 Comments »

I have been using Eclipse for quite some time now. I prefer Eclipse as development IDE because its ease of use. The overall design of Eclipse keeps the tools you need immediately at your fingertips.
Using APT to install Eclipse on your Debian / Ubuntu machine will give you the old version of Eclipse. I [...]

Posted on July 8th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian, Ubuntu | 24 Comments »

As a PHP Developer, I think it’s time to move forward to PHP5.
Today, I checked GoPHP5.org initiative:
PHP developers cannot leverage PHP 5’s full potential without dropping support for PHP 4, but PHP 4 is still installed on a majority of shared web hosts and users would then be forced to switch to a different [...]

Posted on July 7th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: PHP Programming | No Comments »