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My little cron Bash framework (locking and logging)
Thursday 24 July 2008, 10:21
Occasionally, I have a maintenance task for one of my programs: something has to be done in the background every so often.
From rsyncing content between servers to importing data received from external parties into my application.
Most of the products we make run on Linux servers, so I use cron to make scripts run every x amount of minutes/hours/days/etc.
With ... read more »
From rsyncing content between servers to importing data received from external parties into my application.
Most of the products we make run on Linux servers, so I use cron to make scripts run every x amount of minutes/hours/days/etc.
With ... read more »
About Open Source software projects
Monday 21 July 2008, 11:23
I have been involved in several Open Source projects, some of which have been successful and some... less successful. I really enjoy starting new projects but absolutely hate maintaining and documenting the old ones, to the extent that someone even implied that I am allergic to documentation.
There are a few ingredients that make a project successful, the most important being a good idea. An idea can be a tool or a library that you need and think others might find useful; a new... read more »
There are a few ingredients that make a project successful, the most important being a good idea. An idea can be a tool or a library that you need and think others might find useful; a new... read more »
Wow, this is so cool!
Thursday 17 July 2008, 10:34
This week it was finally delivered and I had the honor to receive the first copy of the book in our office. I'm talking about php|architect's "Guide to Enterprise PHP Development" written by my dear colleague Ivo Jansch. Last year he confided in me, said he wanted to write a book. And he actually did, within the year, 275 pages describing the complete development life cycle. For each phase in the development cycle,... read more »
T minus one
Tuesday 08 July 2008, 19:00
It's July the 8th.
Today I realized that we're exactly one month away from 8-8-8, the final blow to PHP4.
Last december, the community already stopped support for PHP4, but until the 8th of August, at least security fixes would still be done. If nothing has changed in the meantime, and I didn't read any evidence to the contrary, in 31 days from now,security fixes will no longer be provided for PHP4.
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Today I realized that we're exactly one month away from 8-8-8, the final blow to PHP4.
Last december, the community already stopped support for PHP4, but until the 8th of August, at least security fixes would still be done. If nothing has changed in the meantime, and I didn't read any evidence to the contrary, in 31 days from now,security fixes will no longer be provided for PHP4.
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