Changing the GitHub IRC Hooks Notification Events
As joind.in uses GitHub to host its source code, we use the IRC hook to receive notifications to the IRC channel (#joind.in on freenode) when interesting...
View ArticleUse Statements and Code Readability
I was having a discussion on IRC about use statements and whether they improved code readability or not. The choices Consider this hypothetical...
View ArticleSome Notes On Provisioning Vagrant with Ansible
I’ve been playing with Vagrant over the last few days, using Ansible to provision it. These are some notes to remind myself for next time and are very...
View ArticleInjecting Dependencies Into Your ZF2 Controllers
When starting working with Zend Framework 2, it’s common to copy the skeleton and put your controller definitions in module.config.php like...
View ArticleWriting to Vagrant Synced Folders
I had a problem writing to the cache directory in my vagrant project due to file permissions. Fortunately Jeremy Kendall has already solved this problem in his...
View ArticleView Status of All Vagrant Environments
I’ve just upgraded to Vagrant version 1.6, and vagrant global-status is possibly my favourite new feature. This command lists all currently up Vagrant...
View ArticleSetting Up Mailcatcher as a Service in Debian/Ubuntu
I've recently been changing joind.in's Vagrant system to use Debian and one issue I came across was getting Mailcatcher to start on boot and...
View ArticleContext-specific history at the bash prompt
One change I made recently to my .profile is this: # up & down map to history search once a command has been started. bind...
View ArticleGit push to multiple repositories
I have a couple of projects where I need to push to more than one repo all the time. I have been using this command line to do so: git push origin...
View ArticleSetting up PHP & MySQL on OS X Yosemite
It's that time again; Apple has shipped a new version of OS X, 10.10 Yosemite. Apple ships PHP 5.5.14 with Yosemite and this is how to set it up from a clean...
View ArticleProvisioning with Ansible Within the Vagrant Guest
I've been setting up a Vagrant VM for use with some client projects and picked Ansible to do this. Firstly, I played with the Ansible...
View ArticleUsing Phing to SSH into a Vagrant Box
Now that I've started using migrations, I've discovered a minor irritant.I run this project on a Vagrant VM and have discovered that I keep forgetting to...
View ArticleA Few Phing Tips
Following on from my last post, here's a few other Phing things that I've found helps me. Hiding targets from Phing -lI have a number of dependent targets in...
View ArticleRegistering Doctrine Type Mappings for Standalone Migrations
Shortly after starting to use Doctrine Migrations as a standalone tool in my project, I came across this error message: Unknown database type bit...
View ArticleAutocomplete Phing Targets on the Command Line
Shortly after writing my last post, it crossed my mind that it would be nice if I could autocomplete the targets in my Phing build file on the command...
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