MySQL 5.7 and Wordpress problem
If you upgrade to MySQL 5.7, you may encounter bugs with legacy software. Wordpress, which I also consider some kind of legacy software, does not handle this...
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sysadmin
Adding newlines in a SQL mysqldump to split extended inserts
The official mysqldump supports more or less two output styles: separate INSERTs (one insert statement per row) or extended INSERTs (one insert per table). E...
GlusterFS performance on different frameworks
A couple months ago, I did a comparison of different distributed filesystems. It came out that GlusterFS was the easiest and most feature full, but it was sl...
LAMP Cluster — Distributed filesystem
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
LAMP Cluster — Choosing an Operating System
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
LAMP Cluster — Comparison of different hosting platforms
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
Generating a unique node id per hostname in Puppet
To generate a unique integer ID in Puppet, we can use the hostname and convert is to base 10 using a erb inline template.
Fixing permissions using inotify and ACLs
I was working on a shared hosting project and I noticed the permissions were getting a bit complicated.
Run a script with lowest priority
When doing low-priority tasks like backups are fixing permissions on a cronjob, it is a good idea to modify the niceness of the script. By using ionice and r...
Choosing the best wireless router for a small office
At my office, we needed a new router. With more than 50 devices that are quite heavily using the network, we we crushing our basic personal router.
Varnish 3 configuration
Shared caches are pretty strict when it comes to caching or not a request. This is good, otherwise it would cache requests that are not meant to be cached.
Simple templating system using Bash
I often have to deploy several config files that are very similar. Things like Apache VirtualHost and PHP FPM pools. The solution to this kind of problem is ...
Batch update modules or themes of Drupal 6/7 in command line
To update Drupal modules, you need to download manually all modules and this can quickly become tedious. Especially if you have multiple modules and Drupal i...
Verifying DNS propagation
When changing DNS settings, the propagation can take from 15 minutes to two days. Clients and bosses are usually not very fond of this principle so it is oft...
Protect Webserver against DOS attacks using UFW
Ubuntu comes bundled with UFW, which is an interface to iptables. This is basically a very lightweight router/firewall inside the Linux kernel that runs way ...
Generate missing Nginx mime types using /usr/share/mime/globs
Nginx comes with a rather small set of mime types compared to a default Linux system
Configure ElasticSearch on a single shared host and reduce memory usage
ElasticSearch is a powerful, yet easy to use, search engine based on Lucene. Compared to others, it features a JSON API and wonderful scaling capabilities vi...
Introducing Dotfiles Builder
Managing bashrc sucks
PHP
Preventing cache stampede when using Doctrine Cache
Wikipedia has short and clear article on the matter, cache stampede can be quite deadly, especially when you are rebooting your server, clearing your cache o...
Load Doctrine Fixtures when using Migrations in Symfony
Using app/console doctrine:migrations:migrate is really easy and trouble free for everybody, but those tables are often empty and they need some data to be o...
Using PHP’s mb_detect_encoding to cleanup your data
Ever heard of iso-8859-1 ? Yeah… that nightmare… With it, my name ends up more often than not… Sébastien. The computers gurus came up one day with UTF-8 and...
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
PHP Document Root, Path and URL detection
PHP has no built-in base URL variable. In all the mess that is the $_SERVER variable, there is nothing that will tell you the base URL for your website. Thi...
Track your time working on PHP projects
Have you ever had a project manager? You know, the kind of person that comes to bug you about your timesheet not being properly done and how important it is?...
How to properly create and destroy a PHP session
When working with shared caches like Varnish or Nginx, cookies will kill everything you are trying to do.
Generate Lorem Ipsum using loripsum.net API
loripsum.net describes itself as “The ‘lorem ipsum’ generator that doesn’t suck”. It is the same text you are used to see over and over except that it is dec...
Automatic LESS compilation using mod_rewrite and lessphp
I have been using LESS (and before SCSS) and I enjoy it, but I have to admit that I was spoiled by Symfony, Twig and Assetic that compile them automatically ...
Automatic cache busting using Git commit in Symfony2
Cache busting
bcrypt with ircmaxell and how to use it
It is common knowledge that md5 is not secure for password hashing. It is almost worst than plaintext because it may falsly induce the impression of security...
PHP Coding standards
For more than a year, some influent PHP programmers of the most active of the most active projects in the community have been working on coding standards.
Reducing the load of all those social plugins
Some javascript libraries are big and they pose a stress on the browser when they are loaded all at the same time.
Generate a random string of non-ambiguous numbers and letters.
I needed to generate a unique code, suitable for URLs and somewhat short so it doesn’t scare the user.
Writing a PHPUnit test for Symfony2 to test email sending
The idea is to test that an email is sent by a contact form by inspecting the SwiftMailler Collector.
Validating emails using SMTP queries
Email validation are traditionally done in three flavors. They have pros and cons but they are widely spread; let us go through them.
Bash
Fixing permissions using inotify and ACLs
I was working on a shared hosting project and I noticed the permissions were getting a bit complicated.
Run a script with lowest priority
When doing low-priority tasks like backups are fixing permissions on a cronjob, it is a good idea to modify the niceness of the script. By using ionice and r...
Simple templating system using Bash
I often have to deploy several config files that are very similar. Things like Apache VirtualHost and PHP FPM pools. The solution to this kind of problem is ...
Batch update modules or themes of Drupal 6/7 in command line
To update Drupal modules, you need to download manually all modules and this can quickly become tedious. Especially if you have multiple modules and Drupal i...
Introducing Dotfiles Builder
Managing bashrc sucks
Use credentials in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf to export MySQL database
Quite a usual task is to dump a database to do backups. You may even want to do this in a cronjob to snapshots, etc.
PHP script to replace site url in Wordpress database dump, even with WPML
Wordpress has the nice habit of storing every URL with its full path in the database. You sure can hardcode the HOME_URL and SITE_URL in the wp-config.php bu...
Apache VirtualHost Template with variable replacement
This is in no way a robust solution for deploying a real web hosting infrastructure, but sometimes, you just need basic templates. I use this simple template...
Remove temporary and junk files from Windows and OS X
One of the most annoying things with being able to see all files in the terminal is that… you see all the files. That includes backups, swap and temp files.
Symfony2
Override Doctrine ODM mapping for Symfony FOSUserBundle
In Symfony Cookbook How to Override any Part of a Bundle, it is written that you cannot override entity mappings and only attributes can be modified in super...
Load Doctrine Fixtures when using Migrations in Symfony
Using app/console doctrine:migrations:migrate is really easy and trouble free for everybody, but those tables are often empty and they need some data to be o...
GlusterFS performance on different frameworks
A couple months ago, I did a comparison of different distributed filesystems. It came out that GlusterFS was the easiest and most feature full, but it was sl...
Tips for an efficient interview
I have only been in the Web industry for 5-6 years but I am already a bit sceptical when giving an interview. Some people are so good at talking about stuff ...
Automatic cache busting using Git commit in Symfony2
Cache busting
bcrypt with ircmaxell and how to use it
It is common knowledge that md5 is not secure for password hashing. It is almost worst than plaintext because it may falsly induce the impression of security...
Writing a PHPUnit test for Symfony2 to test email sending
The idea is to test that an email is sent by a contact form by inspecting the SwiftMailler Collector.
Apache
Secure your SSL/TLS server
Heartbleed
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
PHP Document Root, Path and URL detection
PHP has no built-in base URL variable. In all the mess that is the $_SERVER variable, there is nothing that will tell you the base URL for your website. Thi...
Protect Webserver against DOS attacks using UFW
Ubuntu comes bundled with UFW, which is an interface to iptables. This is basically a very lightweight router/firewall inside the Linux kernel that runs way ...
Make your dev machine public using a VPN and a proxy
There is many reasons to be needing a machine available publicly:
Apache VirtualHost Template with variable replacement
This is in no way a robust solution for deploying a real web hosting infrastructure, but sometimes, you just need basic templates. I use this simple template...
Document Root fix in .htaccess when using VirtualDocumentRoot
CMS often come with a .htaccess that has a RewriteRule like this:
CSS
Simple custom CSS checkboxes with Font Awesome
Browsers make it notoriously hard to modify the default form elements like dropdowns and checkboxes. For ages, the only way to add a custom style was to use ...
Organizing Javascript and CSS assets for optimal loading
On Reddit, I recently stumbled upon DynoSRC which allows to serve only a differential Javascript file to your users. The concept is pretty amazing, but I fin...
Responsive menu in pure CSS
Having menus that gracefully adapt to the size of your screen can be troublesome. Inspired by the collapsible menu of Bootstrap, here is a pure CSS implement...
Automatic LESS compilation using mod_rewrite and lessphp
I have been using LESS (and before SCSS) and I enjoy it, but I have to admit that I was spoiled by Symfony, Twig and Assetic that compile them automatically ...
The little quirks of using Twitter Bootstrap
Twitter Bootstrap is awesome to get started quickly on a custom layout. It had a lot of features that are very good best-practices like intuitive colours for...
Using a public CDN versus hosting custom libraries
The plus side of using a public CDN
WebPlatform.org – When giants get together
Starting to build websites can be very hard, keeping up with the technology is a must and building cross-browsers is a daily crisis. A lot of great resources...
MySQL
MySQL 5.7 and Wordpress problem
If you upgrade to MySQL 5.7, you may encounter bugs with legacy software. Wordpress, which I also consider some kind of legacy software, does not handle this...
Adding newlines in a SQL mysqldump to split extended inserts
The official mysqldump supports more or less two output styles: separate INSERTs (one insert statement per row) or extended INSERTs (one insert per table). E...
Converting MyISAM to InnoDB, keeping FULLTEXT
I was working with a Percona XtraDB Cluster and I noticed that even though it supports MyISAM replication, it is statement based so the PRIMARY KEY is not pr...
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
MySQL becoming more and more closed source, thanks to Oracle
As highlighted on Slashdot and Hacker News, the tests suites and the commit log of MySQL are not bundled with the opensource distribution.
Use credentials in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf to export MySQL database
Quite a usual task is to dump a database to do backups. You may even want to do this in a cronjob to snapshots, etc.
Wordpress
MySQL 5.7 and Wordpress problem
If you upgrade to MySQL 5.7, you may encounter bugs with legacy software. Wordpress, which I also consider some kind of legacy software, does not handle this...
GlusterFS performance on different frameworks
A couple months ago, I did a comparison of different distributed filesystems. It came out that GlusterFS was the easiest and most feature full, but it was sl...
Wordpress MU-Plugins subdirectory loader
Wordpress’s Must Use Plugins are an easy way to include quick pieces of code that will always be included.
bcrypt with ircmaxell and how to use it
It is common knowledge that md5 is not secure for password hashing. It is almost worst than plaintext because it may falsly induce the impression of security...
PHP script to replace site url in Wordpress database dump, even with WPML
Wordpress has the nice habit of storing every URL with its full path in the database. You sure can hardcode the HOME_URL and SITE_URL in the wp-config.php bu...
Performance
Preventing cache stampede when using Doctrine Cache
Wikipedia has short and clear article on the matter, cache stampede can be quite deadly, especially when you are rebooting your server, clearing your cache o...
GlusterFS performance on different frameworks
A couple months ago, I did a comparison of different distributed filesystems. It came out that GlusterFS was the easiest and most feature full, but it was sl...
Organizing Javascript and CSS assets for optimal loading
On Reddit, I recently stumbled upon DynoSRC which allows to serve only a differential Javascript file to your users. The concept is pretty amazing, but I fin...
Using Edge Side Includes with Varnish to cache partial pages
Caching full pages with Varnish can be hard, most applications use sessions, which sets a Cookie, which makes Varnish ignore all caching.
How to properly create and destroy a PHP session
When working with shared caches like Varnish or Nginx, cookies will kill everything you are trying to do.
hosting
MySQL 5.7 and Wordpress problem
If you upgrade to MySQL 5.7, you may encounter bugs with legacy software. Wordpress, which I also consider some kind of legacy software, does not handle this...
GlusterFS performance on different frameworks
A couple months ago, I did a comparison of different distributed filesystems. It came out that GlusterFS was the easiest and most feature full, but it was sl...
LAMP Cluster — Distributed filesystem
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
LAMP Cluster — Choosing an Operating System
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
LAMP Cluster — Comparison of different hosting platforms
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Development tool
Load Doctrine Fixtures when using Migrations in Symfony
Using app/console doctrine:migrations:migrate is really easy and trouble free for everybody, but those tables are often empty and they need some data to be o...
Starting a text editor from inside a Virtual Machine
Using Vagrant, Docker or other virtual development environment is becoming quite popular. However, a drawback of this is that you cannot start a visual text ...
Track your time working on PHP projects
Have you ever had a project manager? You know, the kind of person that comes to bug you about your timesheet not being properly done and how important it is?...
Make your dev machine public using a VPN and a proxy
There is many reasons to be needing a machine available publicly:
Nginx
Secure your SSL/TLS server
Heartbleed
Protect Webserver against DOS attacks using UFW
Ubuntu comes bundled with UFW, which is an interface to iptables. This is basically a very lightweight router/firewall inside the Linux kernel that runs way ...
Generate missing Nginx mime types using /usr/share/mime/globs
Nginx comes with a rather small set of mime types compared to a default Linux system
Make your dev machine public using a VPN and a proxy
There is many reasons to be needing a machine available publicly:
Javascript
Organizing Javascript and CSS assets for optimal loading
On Reddit, I recently stumbled upon DynoSRC which allows to serve only a differential Javascript file to your users. The concept is pretty amazing, but I fin...
Optimizing page loads by reducing the impact of Javascript initialization
So you combined all your Javascript files in the hope it will speed up page loads ? Well for sure the download will be faster, but the browser still needs to...
Using a public CDN versus hosting custom libraries
The plus side of using a public CDN
Testing your Regex skills
Regular expressions are powerful, yes. They should not be used for everything, especially not HTML. HTML is not a regular language. As soon as you need some ...
Caching
Preventing cache stampede when using Doctrine Cache
Wikipedia has short and clear article on the matter, cache stampede can be quite deadly, especially when you are rebooting your server, clearing your cache o...
Organizing Javascript and CSS assets for optimal loading
On Reddit, I recently stumbled upon DynoSRC which allows to serve only a differential Javascript file to your users. The concept is pretty amazing, but I fin...
Using Edge Side Includes with Varnish to cache partial pages
Caching full pages with Varnish can be hard, most applications use sessions, which sets a Cookie, which makes Varnish ignore all caching.
How to properly create and destroy a PHP session
When working with shared caches like Varnish or Nginx, cookies will kill everything you are trying to do.
GitHub
Simple templating system using Bash
I often have to deploy several config files that are very similar. Things like Apache VirtualHost and PHP FPM pools. The solution to this kind of problem is ...
Reducing the load of all those social plugins
Some javascript libraries are big and they pose a stress on the browser when they are loaded all at the same time.
Introducing Dotfiles Builder
Managing bashrc sucks
Interesting
Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
Two scientists at the Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored a 700TB of data in DNA.
Is the online ad industry a fraud?
As highligthed by MacLeans, the Advertising Research Foundation did an experiment showing that:
Solving complex network problems using… fungus
Here is a part of a documentary on decay that aired on BBC.
VPS
LAMP Cluster — Comparison of different hosting platforms
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Protect Webserver against DOS attacks using UFW
Ubuntu comes bundled with UFW, which is an interface to iptables. This is basically a very lightweight router/firewall inside the Linux kernel that runs way ...
Configure ElasticSearch on a single shared host and reduce memory usage
ElasticSearch is a powerful, yet easy to use, search engine based on Lucene. Compared to others, it features a JSON API and wonderful scaling capabilities vi...
Drupal
GlusterFS performance on different frameworks
A couple months ago, I did a comparison of different distributed filesystems. It came out that GlusterFS was the easiest and most feature full, but it was sl...
bcrypt with ircmaxell and how to use it
It is common knowledge that md5 is not secure for password hashing. It is almost worst than plaintext because it may falsly induce the impression of security...
Batch update modules or themes of Drupal 6/7 in command line
To update Drupal modules, you need to download manually all modules and this can quickly become tedious. Especially if you have multiple modules and Drupal i...
Varnish
Using Edge Side Includes with Varnish to cache partial pages
Caching full pages with Varnish can be hard, most applications use sessions, which sets a Cookie, which makes Varnish ignore all caching.
Varnish 3 configuration
Shared caches are pretty strict when it comes to caching or not a request. This is good, otherwise it would cache requests that are not meant to be cached.
How to properly create and destroy a PHP session
When working with shared caches like Varnish or Nginx, cookies will kill everything you are trying to do.
Linux
LAMP Cluster — Distributed filesystem
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
LAMP Cluster — Choosing an Operating System
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
Doctrine
Override Doctrine ODM mapping for Symfony FOSUserBundle
In Symfony Cookbook How to Override any Part of a Bundle, it is written that you cannot override entity mappings and only attributes can be modified in super...
Preventing cache stampede when using Doctrine Cache
Wikipedia has short and clear article on the matter, cache stampede can be quite deadly, especially when you are rebooting your server, clearing your cache o...
Load Doctrine Fixtures when using Migrations in Symfony
Using app/console doctrine:migrations:migrate is really easy and trouble free for everybody, but those tables are often empty and they need some data to be o...
Writing a PHPUnit test for Symfony2 to test email sending
The idea is to test that an email is sent by a contact form by inspecting the SwiftMailler Collector.
Validating emails using SMTP queries
Email validation are traditionally done in three flavors. They have pros and cons but they are widely spread; let us go through them.
Regex
Testing your Regex skills
Regular expressions are powerful, yes. They should not be used for everything, especially not HTML. HTML is not a regular language. As soon as you need some ...
Validating emails using SMTP queries
Email validation are traditionally done in three flavors. They have pros and cons but they are widely spread; let us go through them.
mod_rewrite
Automatic LESS compilation using mod_rewrite and lessphp
I have been using LESS (and before SCSS) and I enjoy it, but I have to admit that I was spoiled by Symfony, Twig and Assetic that compile them automatically ...
Document Root fix in .htaccess when using VirtualDocumentRoot
CMS often come with a .htaccess that has a RewriteRule like this:
Cleanup
PHP Coding standards
For more than a year, some influent PHP programmers of the most active of the most active projects in the community have been working on coding standards.
Remove temporary and junk files from Windows and OS X
One of the most annoying things with being able to see all files in the terminal is that… you see all the files. That includes backups, swap and temp files.
Computer Science
Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram
Two scientists at the Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored a 700TB of data in DNA.
Solving complex network problems using… fungus
Here is a part of a documentary on decay that aired on BBC.
Meta
Track your time working on PHP projects
Have you ever had a project manager? You know, the kind of person that comes to bug you about your timesheet not being properly done and how important it is?...
Going further
So, 4 years and a half after having started my bachelor degree at the University of Montreal in Computer Science, I am done. It has been a long and painful p...
HTML
Responsive menu in pure CSS
Having menus that gracefully adapt to the size of your screen can be troublesome. Inspired by the collapsible menu of Bootstrap, here is a pure CSS implement...
WebPlatform.org – When giants get together
Starting to build websites can be very hard, keeping up with the technology is a must and building cross-browsers is a daily crisis. A lot of great resources...
Git
Hosting a Composer repository for private Gitlab projects
Small script that loops through all branches and tags of all projects in a Gitlab installation and if it contains a composer.json, adds it to an index.
Git tutorial and global configs
I was searching for inspiration for a good Git tutorial and I stumbled across a wonderful resource.
Security
Secure your SSL/TLS server
Heartbleed
bcrypt with ircmaxell and how to use it
It is common knowledge that md5 is not secure for password hashing. It is almost worst than plaintext because it may falsly induce the impression of security...
jQuery
Using a public CDN versus hosting custom libraries
The plus side of using a public CDN
Mind blowing jQuery plugin: Scroll Path
Joel Besada (@JoelBesada) did a jQuery plugin that lets you define custom scroll paths, including rotations and custom scrollbars.
CDN
Organizing Javascript and CSS assets for optimal loading
On Reddit, I recently stumbled upon DynoSRC which allows to serve only a differential Javascript file to your users. The concept is pretty amazing, but I fin...
Using a public CDN versus hosting custom libraries
The plus side of using a public CDN
Twitter Bootstrap
The little quirks of using Twitter Bootstrap
Twitter Bootstrap is awesome to get started quickly on a custom layout. It had a lot of features that are very good best-practices like intuitive colours for...
Using a public CDN versus hosting custom libraries
The plus side of using a public CDN
Data Fixtures
Load Doctrine Fixtures when using Migrations in Symfony
Using app/console doctrine:migrations:migrate is really easy and trouble free for everybody, but those tables are often empty and they need some data to be o...
Generate Lorem Ipsum using loripsum.net API
loripsum.net describes itself as “The ‘lorem ipsum’ generator that doesn’t suck”. It is the same text you are used to see over and over except that it is dec...
Management
Tips for an efficient interview
I have only been in the Web industry for 5-6 years but I am already a bit sceptical when giving an interview. Some people are so good at talking about stuff ...
Track your time working on PHP projects
Have you ever had a project manager? You know, the kind of person that comes to bug you about your timesheet not being properly done and how important it is?...
Guide
LAMP Cluster — Choosing an Operating System
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
Ubuntu
Creating a static private network on VMWare Fusion with Ubuntu
This tutorial is using VMWare Fusion 7, Ubuntu 14.04.1 server and OSX 10.9
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
Percona
Converting MyISAM to InnoDB, keeping FULLTEXT
I was working with a Percona XtraDB Cluster and I noticed that even though it supports MyISAM replication, it is statement based so the PRIMARY KEY is not pr...
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
Linode
LAMP Cluster — Comparison of different hosting platforms
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
Filesystem
GlusterFS performance on different frameworks
A couple months ago, I did a comparison of different distributed filesystems. It came out that GlusterFS was the easiest and most feature full, but it was sl...
LAMP Cluster — Distributed filesystem
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
GlusterFS
GlusterFS performance on different frameworks
A couple months ago, I did a comparison of different distributed filesystems. It came out that GlusterFS was the easiest and most feature full, but it was sl...
LAMP Cluster — Distributed filesystem
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
SMTP
Validating emails using SMTP queries
Email validation are traditionally done in three flavors. They have pros and cons but they are widely spread; let us go through them.
PHPUnit
Writing a PHPUnit test for Symfony2 to test email sending
The idea is to test that an email is sent by a contact form by inspecting the SwiftMailler Collector.
SwiftMailer
Writing a PHPUnit test for Symfony2 to test email sending
The idea is to test that an email is sent by a contact form by inspecting the SwiftMailler Collector.
.htaccess
Document Root fix in .htaccess when using VirtualDocumentRoot
CMS often come with a .htaccess that has a RewriteRule like this:
bashrc
Introducing Dotfiles Builder
Managing bashrc sucks
Advertising
Is the online ad industry a fraud?
As highligthed by MacLeans, the Advertising Research Foundation did an experiment showing that:
PHP-FIG
PHP Coding standards
For more than a year, some influent PHP programmers of the most active of the most active projects in the community have been working on coding standards.
PSR
PHP Coding standards
For more than a year, some influent PHP programmers of the most active of the most active projects in the community have been working on coding standards.
UdeM
Convertir le calendrier UdeM au format iCal
Amis de l’UdeM,
Oracle
MySQL becoming more and more closed source, thanks to Oracle
As highlighted on Slashdot and Hacker News, the tests suites and the commit log of MySQL are not bundled with the opensource distribution.
PostgreSQL
MySQL becoming more and more closed source, thanks to Oracle
As highlighted on Slashdot and Hacker News, the tests suites and the commit log of MySQL are not bundled with the opensource distribution.
Opensource
MySQL becoming more and more closed source, thanks to Oracle
As highlighted on Slashdot and Hacker News, the tests suites and the commit log of MySQL are not bundled with the opensource distribution.
VPN
Make your dev machine public using a VPN and a proxy
There is many reasons to be needing a machine available publicly:
Proxy
Make your dev machine public using a VPN and a proxy
There is many reasons to be needing a machine available publicly:
ElasticSearch
Configure ElasticSearch on a single shared host and reduce memory usage
ElasticSearch is a powerful, yet easy to use, search engine based on Lucene. Compared to others, it features a JSON API and wonderful scaling capabilities vi...
Mime-Type
Generate missing Nginx mime types using /usr/share/mime/globs
Nginx comes with a rather small set of mime types compared to a default Linux system
iptables
Protect Webserver against DOS attacks using UFW
Ubuntu comes bundled with UFW, which is an interface to iptables. This is basically a very lightweight router/firewall inside the Linux kernel that runs way ...
UFW
Protect Webserver against DOS attacks using UFW
Ubuntu comes bundled with UFW, which is an interface to iptables. This is basically a very lightweight router/firewall inside the Linux kernel that runs way ...
Documentation
WebPlatform.org – When giants get together
Starting to build websites can be very hard, keeping up with the technology is a must and building cross-browsers is a daily crisis. A lot of great resources...
DNS
Verifying DNS propagation
When changing DNS settings, the propagation can take from 15 minutes to two days. Clients and bosses are usually not very fond of this principle so it is oft...
bcrypt
bcrypt with ircmaxell and how to use it
It is common knowledge that md5 is not secure for password hashing. It is almost worst than plaintext because it may falsly induce the impression of security...
jQuery plugin
Mind blowing jQuery plugin: Scroll Path
Joel Besada (@JoelBesada) did a jQuery plugin that lets you define custom scroll paths, including rotations and custom scrollbars.
Frontend
Using a public CDN versus hosting custom libraries
The plus side of using a public CDN
Retina
Generate a multi-resolution favicon using ImageMagick
PNG format for favicons are supported by most browsers, but as you are all aware, the current state of the Web implies we must not only develop for “most bro...
Imagemagick
Generate a multi-resolution favicon using ImageMagick
PNG format for favicons are supported by most browsers, but as you are all aware, the current state of the Web implies we must not only develop for “most bro...
favicon
Generate a multi-resolution favicon using ImageMagick
PNG format for favicons are supported by most browsers, but as you are all aware, the current state of the Web implies we must not only develop for “most bro...
LESS
Automatic LESS compilation using mod_rewrite and lessphp
I have been using LESS (and before SCSS) and I enjoy it, but I have to admit that I was spoiled by Symfony, Twig and Assetic that compile them automatically ...
Lorem Ipsum
Generate Lorem Ipsum using loripsum.net API
loripsum.net describes itself as “The ‘lorem ipsum’ generator that doesn’t suck”. It is the same text you are used to see over and over except that it is dec...
Session
How to properly create and destroy a PHP session
When working with shared caches like Varnish or Nginx, cookies will kill everything you are trying to do.
Google Analytics
Varnish 3 configuration
Shared caches are pretty strict when it comes to caching or not a request. This is good, otherwise it would cache requests that are not meant to be cached.
router
Choosing the best wireless router for a small office
At my office, we needed a new router. With more than 50 devices that are quite heavily using the network, we we crushing our basic personal router.
networking
Choosing the best wireless router for a small office
At my office, we needed a new router. With more than 50 devices that are quite heavily using the network, we we crushing our basic personal router.
backup
Run a script with lowest priority
When doing low-priority tasks like backups are fixing permissions on a cronjob, it is a good idea to modify the niceness of the script. By using ionice and r...
inotify
Fixing permissions using inotify and ACLs
I was working on a shared hosting project and I noticed the permissions were getting a bit complicated.
acl
Fixing permissions using inotify and ACLs
I was working on a shared hosting project and I noticed the permissions were getting a bit complicated.
Puppet
Generating a unique node id per hostname in Puppet
To generate a unique integer ID in Puppet, we can use the hostname and convert is to base 10 using a erb inline template.
Time tracking
Track your time working on PHP projects
Have you ever had a project manager? You know, the kind of person that comes to bug you about your timesheet not being properly done and how important it is?...
Replication
Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Motivations on building on your own hosting
LAMP
LAMP Cluster — Comparison of different hosting platforms
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
cluster
LAMP Cluster — Comparison of different hosting platforms
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
NFS
LAMP Cluster — Distributed filesystem
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Csync2
LAMP Cluster — Distributed filesystem
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
Lustre
LAMP Cluster — Distributed filesystem
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
DRBD
LAMP Cluster — Distributed filesystem
This post is part of: Guide to replicated LAMP stack hosting with failover
MySQL Triggers
Converting MyISAM to InnoDB, keeping FULLTEXT
I was working with a Percona XtraDB Cluster and I noticed that even though it supports MyISAM replication, it is statement based so the PRIMARY KEY is not pr...
MyISAM
Converting MyISAM to InnoDB, keeping FULLTEXT
I was working with a Percona XtraDB Cluster and I noticed that even though it supports MyISAM replication, it is statement based so the PRIMARY KEY is not pr...
InnoDB
Converting MyISAM to InnoDB, keeping FULLTEXT
I was working with a Percona XtraDB Cluster and I noticed that even though it supports MyISAM replication, it is statement based so the PRIMARY KEY is not pr...
ESI
Using Edge Side Includes with Varnish to cache partial pages
Caching full pages with Varnish can be hard, most applications use sessions, which sets a Cookie, which makes Varnish ignore all caching.
Composer
Hosting a Composer repository for private Gitlab projects
Small script that loops through all branches and tags of all projects in a Gitlab installation and if it contains a composer.json, adds it to an index.
Packagist
Hosting a Composer repository for private Gitlab projects
Small script that loops through all branches and tags of all projects in a Gitlab installation and if it contains a composer.json, adds it to an index.
Gitlab
Hosting a Composer repository for private Gitlab projects
Small script that loops through all branches and tags of all projects in a Gitlab installation and if it contains a composer.json, adds it to an index.
Interview
Tips for an efficient interview
I have only been in the Web industry for 5-6 years but I am already a bit sceptical when giving an interview. Some people are so good at talking about stuff ...
Responsive
Responsive menu in pure CSS
Having menus that gracefully adapt to the size of your screen can be troublesome. Inspired by the collapsible menu of Bootstrap, here is a pure CSS implement...
Optimization
Optimizing page loads by reducing the impact of Javascript initialization
So you combined all your Javascript files in the hope it will speed up page loads ? Well for sure the download will be faster, but the browser still needs to...
Bitcoin
Is Bitcoin mining profitable ?
I thought I would go for a change and talk about some Bitcoin mining. There have been some big hype around it. Some large companies are making top dollar wit...
tutorial
Simple custom CSS checkboxes with Font Awesome
Browsers make it notoriously hard to modify the default form elements like dropdowns and checkboxes. For ages, the only way to add a custom style was to use ...
codepen
Simple custom CSS checkboxes with Font Awesome
Browsers make it notoriously hard to modify the default form elements like dropdowns and checkboxes. For ages, the only way to add a custom style was to use ...
checkbox
Simple custom CSS checkboxes with Font Awesome
Browsers make it notoriously hard to modify the default form elements like dropdowns and checkboxes. For ages, the only way to add a custom style was to use ...
UTF-8
Using PHP’s mb_detect_encoding to cleanup your data
Ever heard of iso-8859-1 ? Yeah… that nightmare… With it, my name ends up more often than not… Sébastien. The computers gurus came up one day with UTF-8 and...
VMWare
Creating a static private network on VMWare Fusion with Ubuntu
This tutorial is using VMWare Fusion 7, Ubuntu 14.04.1 server and OSX 10.9
Vagrant
Starting a text editor from inside a Virtual Machine
Using Vagrant, Docker or other virtual development environment is becoming quite popular. However, a drawback of this is that you cannot start a visual text ...
FOSUserBundle
Override Doctrine ODM mapping for Symfony FOSUserBundle
In Symfony Cookbook How to Override any Part of a Bundle, it is written that you cannot override entity mappings and only attributes can be modified in super...
Mongo
Override Doctrine ODM mapping for Symfony FOSUserBundle
In Symfony Cookbook How to Override any Part of a Bundle, it is written that you cannot override entity mappings and only attributes can be modified in super...
Social Media
Reducing the load of all those social plugins
less than 1 minute read
Some javascript libraries are big and they pose a stress on the browser when they are loaded all at the same time.