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Using iWatch to Automatically Run Unit Tests (Linux)

By On February 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

iWatch is a perl script that uses inotify to monitor files directories. It’s similar to the watch tool, which can do all sorts of stuff if the files or directories it’s watching are modified or affected in pretty much any way at all.

Install iWatch

apt-get install iwatch

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Setting Up Default Cron Path

By On September 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’ve run into a ton of issues working with crons, mostly with the $PATH variable screwing things up. Scripts work when run manually on the command line, but fail when run in cron. Very annoying.

I’ve asked a bunch of Linux sys admins how to fix this – and the answer is always “put the [...]

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UIS PHP53, DOM Parsing, PHPUnit, Puppet Config Solution

By On July 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’m using PHP53 package from the IUS Community repository. I’ve been trying to get phpunit to install, but it gives an error that it needs DOM install. It took me a little bit to figure this out, but I finally got it working. What you need is the php53-xml package. You can install it [...]

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Working with DOM in PHP – Looking at a PHP HTML Parser

By On June 6, 2010 · 7 Comments

So, lets assume you’ve got a PHP project where you’re scraping pages and trying parse fields out of the DOM.  Up till now, I’ve just used regular expressions because they’re easy.  I avoided trying to parse html as xml using SimpleXML because there’s just to many cases where it would fail due to invalid tags.

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Geek Links

By On April 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment

PHP Quick Profiler

This looks like a pretty cool tool to get a good idea of what’s going on in your PHP script without having to install tools like XDebug and Webgrind / KCacheGrind.

Apple files patent for browser specific volume

I’m not sure how this is anything new, tons of [...]

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Quickly Check every PHP file in your project for errors

By On December 16, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here’s a quickie – make sure every PHP file in your project parses correctly.

find . -name ‘*.php’ -exec php -l {} \; | grep “Errors parsing”

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VMWare, Losing Time, and Sessions

By On May 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I’ll keep it short. In the last few days, login on our dev server broke. We hadn’t changed anything related to it, and everything looked good code wise. What we finally figured out was that our session cookie was set to expire 2 days into the future, and our VMWare image had lost 2 days [...]

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PHP Warning: Memcache::set(): Failed to extract ‘connection’ variable

By On April 16, 2008 · 3 Comments

I got this today. Solved by restarting the Memcached server. Move along.

Edit: this is actually a reoccurring bug we’re seeing with the memcache 2.2.3 stable build on 2 different boxes
2nd Edit: Actually it was a bug in my code. I wasn’t setting the server and ip correctly, there was a typo in [...]

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How curl_exec and urlencode killed my single sign on

By On April 16, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you do any work with single sign on, you’ll be familiar with the concept of exchanging tokens and validating against the authentication server using that token. One of the issues I’ve just run into which resulted in a huge headache is with urlencoding the result of a curl_exec that had a line ending. It’ [...]

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Executing multiple curl requests in parallel with PHP and curl_multi_exec

By On February 20, 2008 · 78 Comments

Let’s get one thing out in the open. Curl is sweet. It does it’s job very well, and I’m absoutely thrilled it exists.

If you’re using curl in your PHP app to make web requests, you’ve probably realized that by doing them one after the other, the total time of your request is the sum [...]

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