The Diary of a Private Developer

I'm stupid at times. Bad word for starting something publicly available for reading. lol. Anyway, weeks ago I brought down my server and I was deep-down wishing no one would notice. Well, some clients are peculiar. Walijua.  All good now. I updated that stupid thing with a new set of open source s/ware that now works like dope. Yeah...awesomely. Swap - Check. Mails - Check. FTP - Check. Firewall - Check. Lots of stuff to say here... All good though. Can now sleep. Thank God for the Terminal.

Our client is a leading tea blending, packaging and marketing company with a countrywide distribution network known for household quality tea brands and purified drinking water.   They are looking to hire a  Systems Administrator.  Reporting to the ICT Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for the development and support of all Systems including the ERP and Online Systems.  Job Purpose The job holder will be responsible for reviewing, analysing and occasionally modifying systems including encoding, testing, debugging, installation and support of new and...

I like development more when I know my application will be subjected to a bigger audience either for tests or use. I bet every developer likes this at some point. I hate large numbers during development when the project itself is behind schedule though...because this is when you complete modules for ticks & gram and not fun.  Sucks. So, networking...I liked it also because of exposure. Was exposed to this environment so much. I did lots of it. Later found out I was working with less and less materials. I had nothing, in terms...

I have data in a mysql field saved as ' {"0":"43","1":"34","2":"67"} ', where 43,34 and 67 are ID values. I want to use the Ids later, via a query using SQL IN Operator. How do I implement that?

Good Code Been long since I wrote about good practices. Good development practices. If you aint doing what I'll mention here, you need to evaluate how you do stuff. I'm not the best adviser out there, but I know what I did and turned around my productivity. The things I'll advice you to do here, are the things I used not to do, inturn spending the whole night doing almost nothing. I mean, spending the whole night for a bug not worth it. Will expound on each. 1. Always have a local copy Basically, have a copy of your project in your machine. The best way to have this is to clone it in your machine if you're developing from online. I use lamp stack, so, I have a copy at www directory, which serves as a go-to for references incase of anything, and also for adding new stuff to the project. 2. Test Environment This is an online copy just for tests. This is important for examining how the system behaves while hosted. This copy is located at the production env...

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