Daily Archives: October 6th, 2009

php debugging the really really hard way

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

If you’re ever in a situation where something is only happening intermittently, and only on a live server, and only while it’s under load… Lets say its not generating any error_log or stderr output, and you cant run it manually to reproduce… (we’ve all been in this situation) How do you get any debugging output [...]

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Howto: Enable regular expression highlighting in LimeChat

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

in LimeChat.app/Contents/Resources/logrenderer.rb around line 419… WFM. IANAL. YMMV. RTFM. OMGWTF. WTL. GTFO. ETC. words.each do |w| next if w.empty? s = body offset = 0 # rex = Regexp.new(w, true) # while rex =~ s # begin # left = $~.begin(0) right = $~.end(0) pre = $~.pre_match post = $~.post_match ok = true if exact_word_match [...]

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