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ImageMagick == Installed (But limited PHP Extention Support)

By Xeon Xai  |  2008/09/24 19:27 Posted in PHP  |  Comments (0)

I have ImageMagick installed on both my MacBook and Mac mini. Oddly enough I was only able to get imagick (pecl) to install and run correctly as an extension to PHP on the Mac mini.  Odd, very odd, as the Mac mini is only my backup system.

ImageMagick works prefectly from the terminal command line on both systems. Though, only the Mac mini has the ability to load the php extention. Hopefully I can figure out what is wrong and why Entropy PHP 5.2.5.6 won’t load the PECL imagick extension the same on both systems, running the same steps.  The only one able to load the imagick extension was of course the PowerPC system, and not the Intel system.

Hopefully, Entropy will begin including an updated binary build package of ImageMagick and PHP for Mac OS X Leopard that will support MagicWand PHP and IMagick PHP together.  So this won’t be so difficult to configure.

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PHP Job Interview

By Xeon Xai  |  2008/08/21 10:28 Posted in Job Interviews, PHP  |  Comments (0)

Job interview for a PHP developer in 20 minutes. Not sure if I will get the job, but if I don’t I hope less recruiters call me. As I don’t want to be bothered with job offers I won’t get. It wastes my time more than I want it to. Also, I wish people would stop calling me to ask if I can program in ASP, .NET, and JSP. I don’t know them and I don’t wish to learn them.

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Sonic The Hedgehog Styled Hangman

By Xeon Xai  |  2008/08/15 15:59 Posted in PHP  |  Comments (0)

While being recruited for a possible job as a PHP developer, I was asked to take a test. The test was to create a hangman game according to specs in a word document.

Since a few days ago when I created it, I’ve made some modifications, emptied the words table they gave me, and inserted some Sonic the Hedgehog words into the table. Also, used some animated sprites of Sonic the Hedgehog to give it a nicer feel.

Seeing as how I didn’t want to make this test become just some random boring thing that meant nothing to me, I decided to spice it up, and put it online. So I’m giving away the source code for free.

Link: Sonic The Hedgehog Styled Hangman by Xeon Xai

Changes I made from the initial version:

  • Allows for word strings with spaces.
  • Uses graphics instead of ascii art.
  • Based the maximum level on overall rows in the words table.
  • Reduced redundancy in parts of the code.

Have fun with it.

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2 + Me = Team

By Xeon Xai  |  2008/08/14 21:40 Posted in PHP  |  Comments (0)

I have asked 2 friends to learn to make dynamic web applications to assist me in future projects. Hopefully inside of 6 months, they will have a productive understanding of the following:

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Apache
  • CSS
  • XHTML
  • Javascript
  • XML
  • AJAX
  • Flash
  • PHP Extensions: curl, soap, gd.

Once they are comfortable with at least the top half of the list, they will become valuable to the team effort, and can assist in making my dreams of code become reality of income. All while allowing me to also keep my pink mohawk for a very, very, very long time.

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