Taylor Otwell on Laravel

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I promised myself never to release Laravel until I had great documentation, and I never release a new version until the documentation is totally up to date. Any PHP programmer can pick up Laravel and start using it in a matter of minutes. The expressiveness of the code itself and the great documentation truly make coding enjoyable. http://taylorotwell.tumblr.com/post/21038245018/why-laravel

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Using files or Semaphores for long running process locks with PHP

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Last week I spoke at SydPHP, which was hilariously horrible due to my lack of public speaking skills. During my Introduction to Laravel & Composer there was a very interesting question posted asking about an issue that he came across while developing a cron that was running on his server. The process was set to […]

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Nagios plugin for checking the status of supervisord processes

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If you have never used it before, supervisor is an application that runs on your server to monitor a number of different applications. With supervisord, you get all of the benefits of turning long-running applications into daemons without all the extra code required to make that happen natively. The configuration for supervisord is extremely flexible, […]

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WordPress 3.5 is almost complete

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I am writing this blog article to you on the new WordPress 3.5. The updates since 3.4 are really nice. I am especially enjoying the new media manager, with it’s easy to use ‘Drop files anywhere to upload’ screen.  According to their Trac install, there is only six issues left to fix before they release […]

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Strict Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in ..lib/Zend/Db/Select.php on line 216

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Having problems with your (older) Magento install on your (newer) PHP? Some versions of Magento have been using the ‘current‘ function incorrectly. If you experience the following error: Strict Notice: Only variables should be passed by reference in ..lib/Zend/Db/Select.php on line 216 A simpler fix may just be to change two files: File One: lib/Zend/Db/Select.php […]

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Holiday mode started early?

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Looking at my emails, I just realised that I forgot to pay for Drupal Downunder. -.-“

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PHP Fog gets $1.8m in funds

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PHP is one of the most popular web development language in the world, with millions of active developers and tens of millions of PHP-based sites already in deployment. A new company on the PHP scene has been created to service the hundreds of thousands of application developers who work with PHP on a daily basis. […]

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A new PHP Asterisk Gateway Interface

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In my random searches of the Internet, I have found on Github a new PHP AGI framework. Incase all of that sounded like gibberish: AGI == Asterisk Gateway Interface. Asterisk == VoIP Server. VoIP Server == “Press 1. for”, PHP Framework == “if ($key->pressed == “1”) {” 🙂 This framework (nicely named just PAGI) is […]

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Virtuozzo module for WHMCS

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I have written a module for WHMCS for Virtuozzo. If you have any Virtuozzo servers that you would love to have integrated with WHMCS, read the instructions I have posted on the WHMCS forum and download the module.

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