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When PHP Simply Stops

Posted by mike on August 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

A lot of people have problems with PHP the language, but I’ve never come into this problem involving Apache PHP module before. A long time customer got back in touch with me.  A web app he’s been working on was getting ready to go prime time and they ran a security audit on the server. That audit found several things wrong, and strongly recommended an upgrade to PHP 5.2.10.  As of this writing, PHP 5.2.10 was very new and Debian testing didn’t even have a package... Read More

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Tweeting from the command-line

Posted by mike on March 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

As you can see on the sidebar, I use Twitter.  I think it’s cool but I know that it took me a while to “get it” and I know many people who still don’t get it.  But I can’t explain what “it” is. I tweet pretty much from the command line.  A simple google search will help you figure it out, but for the impatient, I do: curl --basic --user username:passwd --data status="my update" \ http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml Of course, I... Read More

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