What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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How to Create a Zend Framework Project that Uses Modules

If your website can be logically split into a number of different functionalities, it makes sense to group those functionalities accordingly. In Zend terminology we are talking about modules, literally the folder splitting of logically grouped pieces of functionality. However, by default a generated Zend Framework project isn’t modular and to get the thing properly modularized, here’s what you have to do.
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How to Create a Zend Project from the Command Line with zf
To generate an empty project shell using the Zend Framework is pretty easy thanks to the powerful zf command line utility.
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How to Start or Stop MySQL Server on Ubuntu via the Command Line

To stop a MySQL server instance on an Ubuntu linux install via the command line is as simple as entering: Continue reading
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Tagged command line, Linux, mysql, mysql server, restart, start, stop, terminal, Ubuntu
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Ubuntu Terminal: How to Quickly Create a SQL Dump File from a MySQL Database

Backing up your MySQL database or generating a copy of it to shift around is quite a simple affair thanks to the powerful mysqldump command that ships with MySQL. Continue reading
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Tagged backup, command line, database, Linux, mysql, sql dump, terminal, Ubuntu
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Ubuntu Terminal: How to Quickly GZip a File

File archiving is a particularly simple affair and there are quite a few different archive algorithms to pick and choose from. GZip (.gz) has for long been associated with Linux as one of its main archiving algorithms and so today’s quick command line tip highlights how to quickly create a zipped file on your system. Continue reading
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Tagged archive, command line, gzip, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu, zip
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