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on Dec. 4, 2015
Yesterday was the release of PHP7.0.0 and I wanted to have it on my mac as fast as possible. Since I'm still using Mac OS X Yosemite I will post here the steps to upgrade my platform, it might be useful for you too.RequirementsSince Apple is doing a great job to provide PHP, Apache and MySQL straig…
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on Jul. 27, 2015
Image source: Wikipedia.orgWhen you review lots of code, you often wonder why things were written the way they were. Especially when making expensive calls to a database, I still see things that could and should be improved.No framework developmentWhen working with a framework, mostly these databas…
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on Jun. 8, 2015
On June 8, 1995 Rasmus Lerdorf open-sourced the code for his "Personal Homepage" and posted it to the news group comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi. Yes, NNTP was hot and famous back in those days! And because Ben Ramsey asked everyone in the PHP community to tell their PHP story, I felt it was tim…
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on May. 26, 2015
Source: theleticiabertin on Flickr.com Wow, I never expected this much involvement when I created an overview of upcoming conferences this fall. I cannot deny I love Markdown to write simple things and I love simplicity. I use IA Writer to have distraction-free editing power on both my phone and la…
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on May. 5, 2015
Source: Pipes 1/3 by Jonah G.S. on Flickr.com I got a question today about using commands that pipe output to other commands within PHP applications.There are two functions in PHP that are perfect for the task: popen and proc_open.The function "popen" opens a process file pointer, basically you hav…
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on Apr. 27, 2015
Listening to Phil Sturgeon (courtesy of Ben Marks) at LoneStarPHP 2015 I returned earlier this week from LoneStarPHP 2015, a community PHP conference held in Addison, a suburb of Dallas, Texas.This conference was a three-day event, with a full day reserved for tutorial sessions where experts from…