Install / Upgrade PHP 5.3 on CentOS 5 / RHEL 5
As I was setting up a staging VM (CentOS 5), I quickly realized I could only get PHP 5.1 from the standard repositories. Thanks to this blog post, I was able to quickly get up and running with PHP...
View ArticleQuickly Clean Up .svn Directories Recursively
Did you forget to export your subversion project before copying it? Inheriting a subversion mess? Here’s how you clean it up real quick on Mac and Linux: Change to the root of your target...
View ArticleMeasuring Download Speed from Linux Command Line
I recently needed to test the network speed of the ISP from my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. I was trying to think of a better way to test it than going out to a Linux Distro's web site and downloading an...
View ArticleEncrypting a tar or gz (gzip) File with OpenSSL
When you have sensitive data that you need to transmit but want to make it easy to encrypt and decrypt it, use some standard tools to get the job done! I recently had an issue where a client was using...
View ArticleSimulating Slow Connections in OS X or Linux
Simulating Slow and Laggy Connections Do you want to simulate how it feels to load your site from a mobile connection (If it’s AT&T just turn off your network for an accurate simulation- I kid,...
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