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I’ve recently run into deployment scenarios where I need to have a unprivileged user account execute something privileged like restarting nginx. Sure, I could just do things with the root account, but most of my deployments are done via SSH…
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How to reverse a string with PHP
Reversing a string in most languages is a pretty trivial task. In PHP we have a dedicated strrev function to do so: $string = ‘This is my awesome string!’; $reverse = strrev($string); But what if this function didn’t exist? How…
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Blogging from your phone
Why an I blogging from my phone? Well it’s been a very busy weekend and I wanted to give this a shot. It’s amazing that we have the technology to be able to do what I am doing right now.…
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How to generate a date range with PHP
From time to time I need to loop through a date range. One approach is to generate a start date and an end date and then add 1 day to the start date until it reaches the end date (or…
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Node.js on the command-line
To start, let me put it out there that I’ve drank the kool-aid and have been doing a ton of hacking with Node.js (and soon enough, IO.js). I’m going to save the details for another post though. So an observation…
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How to convert a string to an array with PHP
Converting a string to an array is a pretty common task when programming in PHP. If you don’t know much about PHP you could easily fall into a situation where you’re manually looping through each character in a string checking…
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Get out of your own way
It happens to the best of us, you’re faced with a seemingly simple problem and you can’t figure it out to save your life. On the surface it’s easy but you start to get wrapped up in hypothetical situations and…
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Sort an array in reverse order with PHP
Arrays are a great way to store / work with data. In PHP, arrays are one of the most powerful data types of available. From time to time, you need to sort an array in reverse order. Of course, PHP…
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The cost of convenience
Convenience is rarely economical. Shredded cheese tends to be more expensive than a block of the same type. Pre-chopped vegetables are the same way. But when you spend that little extra, you gain that back in time that you don’t…
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Pull random values from an array with PHP
Like most things, you can solve this problem with a number of different approaches. Without knowing about array_rand in PHP, you could end up doing something like this to pull a random value from an array: $array = [‘one’, ‘two’,…