Last night I was trying to setup a @mail server but the installer kept choking when attempting to connect to my local database. I am posting here my quick workaround in case you too, dear reader, get a dreaded “PDO” error message complaining about your attempt to “connect to unix://“ Here is I how I solved the issue for @mail: [...]

For my new projects, I have decided to use PHP5, mostly because at least a couple projects will be worked on by a team and the learning curve is fairly forgiving. I decided, however, to follow the model offered by Rails. I looked into a few PHP frameworks, such as Akelos, but realized that they were too constraining for our [...]