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Install PHP 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 with Gearman support

PHP 7 has been out long enough now that it has seen a couple of patch releases, which is about the time I will start evaluating an upgrade. PHP 7 can have some

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Globally install Composer on OS X 10.11 El Capitan

Update: this also works as expected with macOS Sierra. The El Capitan release of OS X introduces a more strict security model around the concept of root level access to the underpinnings of

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Alias a version for Composer

I previously published instructions on using a specific commit hash for Composer. This is a quick and useful way for referencing the most recent version of our work during the development process. In

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GZIP BSON in MongoDB with PHP or Node.js

I recently needed to store a large number of files (300M, 3-4TB GZIP) on a distributed number of systems, while maintaining index information about each file in MongoDB. Accessing and modify large blocks

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PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 with PPA

PHP 5.6 has been in the wild for about a month now. As of October, the major version has received its first patch release 5.6.1 to address several bugs detailed

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First look: Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS

I'm always excited to kick the tires of a new supported release (LTS) of Ubuntu. In most cases I will be using the LTS image for 2-3 years to come, possibly longer. Stateless

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Using a specific commit hash for Composer

The way Composer handles versioning with package links is incredibly flexible for managing dependencies in the various stages of development. If we are releasing updates to a shared library or service, we may

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PHP one-line optimizations with Apache on Ubuntu

There are a couple changes I immediately make to the default php.ini configuration when setting up an application server. Before making any modifications, we should backup the package maintainer's version of the

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