I’ve always wanted to write my own simple shell in php. Call me a glutin for punishment, but it seems like something that a lot of people could use to be able to do… If your web app had a command line interface for various things… like looking up stats, or users, or suspending naughty [...]
We use varnish for a lot of our file caching needs, and recently we figured out how to do something rather important through a combination of technologies. Imagine you have backend servers generating dynamic content based on user input. So your users do something that fits the following categories: is expensive to generate dynamically, and [...]
Andy bogged a piece of advice that I have him which I got from Barry… and if you want to know how to get the true absolute path to the real location of the current script is from inside of it (like phps realpath and __FILE__) I suggest you check it out
I keep marking this as unread in google reader so that Its there when I need it… which probably means I should just blog it… automating firefox via telnet
Lets say you have a relatively complex php web application, like wordpress. You have it running under apache (which is common.) You have good control of your site via .htaccess (which is common — permalinks and all.) And something happens to your blog (e.g. someone is exploiting some unknown vulnerability to compromise your content), which [...]
ack (http://petdance.com/ack/), love it (thanks nikolay)
We’ve been asked how we manage serving files from Amazons very cool S3 service at WordPress.com… This is how. (covering a requested image already stored on S3, not the upload -> s3 process) A request comes into pound for a file. Pound hashes the hostname (via a custom patch which we have not, but may, [...]
for i in $(/sbin/ifconfig | grep addr: | cut -d’:’ -f2 | cut -d’ ‘ -f1 | grep -Ev ‘^$’); do echo -n $i”, “; done | sed -r s/’, $’/”/g; echo
This leaf is capable of running a script on the local server in response to the !deploy channel command. For security you have to authenticate first. To do so you send it a message with a password. it then it http authenticates against a specific url with your nickname and the mesage text as the [...]
This bot is perfect for anything where you need to easily build IRC channel notifications into an existing process. It’s simple, clean, and agnostic. Quite simply you connect to a TCP port, give it one line, the port closes, the line given shows up in the channel. eg: echo ‘hello’ | nc -q 1 bothost [...]