Gearman 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
PHP 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
PHP 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
PHP 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
PHP 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
PHP 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
PHP 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
PHP 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