Category Archives: Tools

Expect more from you Linux Command Line

Posted on 24 Nov 2019 by hakre

Just stumbled over two nice written articles about command line usage on Linux by Robert Elder: Don Libes’ Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool (Dec 2016; by Robert Elder) An Introduction To Data Science On The Linux Command Line (Oct … Continue reading →

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Docker Run without “docker run”

Posted on 23 Oct 2019 by hakre

So there was this one question on Stackoverflow in which the OP was linking an .htaccess tester for Mod-Rewrite-Rules. Despite this being all fine I was asking myself what about really(tm) testing this? So I remembered the rewrite-log from the … Continue reading →

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Speedpills 4 Linting PHP Files in Parallel

Posted on 20 Oct 2019 by hakre

Quite some time ago I’ve already written about linting PHP files in the shell / build. Even though parallel linting is fine, when the code-base is growing larger and larger, the build becomes slower and slower. A slow build sucks. … Continue reading →

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Install / Update Dbeaver Community on Ubuntu

Posted on 27 Feb 2019 by hakre

Update: Turns out I was too eager to get the command line running. While it’s fine to have it perhaps for some systems, it is actually the case that Dbeaver has both a Debian repository and an Unbuntu PPA as … Continue reading →

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Using Assertions with (Legacy) PHP Code

Posted on 4 Sep 2017 by hakre

While it was not much advised to use assertions (the assert PHP language construct) prior to PHP 7 due to the fact that it actually eval’ed a string’ed code, these days are gone. This is probably a lesser known fact with … Continue reading →

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Lazy Loading in PHP Object Composition

Posted on 15 Aug 2017 by hakre

When it comes to nicely performing PHP scripts (yes in PHP these are all scripts as PHP code is run-time) there is a nice addition since PHP 7 named the Null coalescing operator which plays very well with the basic nature … Continue reading →

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Make any Composer Command Segfault

Posted on 14 Mar 2017 by hakre

This is from the shock your co-worker department: There is an easy one-liner to make any composer based project spit “Segmentation fault (core dumped)” regardless of the Composer command entered:

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Linting PHP Files in Parallel on Travis

Posted on 10 Nov 2015 by hakre

With PHP 7 around the corner here is a small tip how you can at least lint the code in your project to be PHP 7 syntax compatible. That allows you to easier obtain forward-compatible PHP code with ease. So … Continue reading →

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Commandline Source Fixes Foo

Posted on 20 Jun 2014 by hakre

From time to time I need to cleanup source trees. Today I needed to do that again, here are some command liners to get some work done. If you’re on Windows, all you need to do to get these running … Continue reading →

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part III and End

Posted on 10 Jul 2013 by hakre

The previous two parts (Part I; Part II) did outline PHP’s standard behaviour when JSON encoding a SimpleXMLElement with json_encode(). As outlined this does not always fits the encoding needs and for some potential problems some workarounds have been showed. … Continue reading →

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part II

Posted on 9 Jul 2013 by hakre

In the previous post (Part I) I was giving a little overview for common woes turning a SimpleXMLElement into JSON when XML structural information is available that JSON is not capable to encode easily. The explanations given there were intended … Continue reading →

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SimpleXML and JSON Encode in PHP – Part I

Posted on 9 Jul 2013 by hakre

With SimpleXMLElement it is often easy and looks like a very quick way to turn some XML into JSON. But not everything in PHP that has an easy interface works out of the box. In this three part series I’ll … Continue reading →

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PHP: XPath on HTML and XHTML

Posted on 21 Jun 2013 by hakre

Christan Weiske has published a nice summarizing article with the same title. It contains some detailed information I haven’t found so far on the web so worth the link: PHP: XPath on HTML and XHTML. It also reminds me of … Continue reading →

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PHP on Google App Engine – Quick First Review

Posted on 18 May 2013 by hakre

This is fresh out of the news (Ars; Wired; WHIR; VB), and what Google wants to offer looks like a very cool package. So if you hadn’t had the time to view the video, here is a quick summary and … Continue reading →

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Event-driven PHP – Igor Wiedler

Posted on 27 Apr 2013 by hakre

Nice talk by Igor at TakeOff 2013: Event-driven PHP – Igor Wiedler.

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Getting the Vagrant in the Box (Fedora 17)

Posted on 8 Nov 2012 by hakre

This post is about installing a useful development tool to play with systems and configurations in a virtualized environment on your fingertips. Want to test your WordPress with a completely differnt web- and database server? Maybe running a proxy in … Continue reading →

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Web3tracer a XHProf derived PHP Profiler / Tracer

Posted on 29 Oct 2012 by hakre

“web3tracer is a PHP profiler / tracer derived from XHProf; it is a PHP module written in C allowing you to profile php scripts performance with minimum overhead.” License: LGPL 3.0 Read On: Pinba – Realtime Monitoring and Statistics Server … Continue reading →

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Hidden Features of PHP – Ilia Alshanetsky

Posted on 6 Jun 2012 by hakre

Ilia put the slides of his talk on 06 Jun 2012 in Toronto named “Hidden Features of PHP” online. He lists features, functions and extensions he thinks are hidden gems and shows examples of them. Slides are available at http://ilia.ws … Continue reading →

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Mosh (mobile shell), sort of client / server type of screen.

Posted on 19 May 2012 by hakre | Leave a comment

DataCleaner – Data quality, profiling, cleansing and matching utility

Posted on 30 Apr 2012 by hakre

DataCleaner – Open source data quality, data profiling, data cleansing, data matching (via Cubrid)

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