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Journal from the Terminal

For years, I've employed a very simple log file to track upgrades and significant configuration changes to my server: one update per line, starting with the output from date(1).

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Defining INI Entries for PHP Scripts

Mostly useful to passing PHP INI settings to wrapper scripts like phpcs and phpunit.

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Level Up

Archived here, for posterity: repeating the last command you typed into bash.

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Filesystem Events on Mac OS X

inotifywait is a Linux thang, but if you need similar functionality on Mac OS X, check out wait_on. Available via homebrew.

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mysqlhotcopy: error 24

What does it look like when you try to mysqlhotcopy, but don't have a high enough open files ulimit?

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Installing CPAN Modules without Root

Today I needed to run mysqlhotcopy, but it was failing "undefined symbol: mysql_init" in DBD::mysql. My Perl is rusty at best, and I finally resorted to reinstalling DBI and DBD::mysql using the local user.

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Makefile for CSS and JS Minify/Compress

I've had an ever-growing need to automate the minification and compression of CSS and JavaScript files on my web server, and while I'd written some rudimentary Makefiles in the past, I finally found time to write a kick-ass general purpose Makefile that can be applied to any project with very little modification.

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Appify: Wrapping Shell Scripts as Applications in Mac OS X 10.6

Today I'm publishing appify, a shell script that turns any other non-interactive shell script into a double-clickable Mac OS X application bundle.

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Bash Completion

It would be difficult to not like bash's programmable completion. It's too bad I've had such a hard time wrapping my head around the programmable completion toolkit.

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Google Search Options

Google search options sidebar

Google has added some search options to pages, including date-based searches, a variety of ways to find related information, and more options for displaying images with your results. Good stuff.

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Abusing screen(1)'s Default Shell

Three other people will find this useful.

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Merging PDFs in Linux

And it all comes together.

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Taming Google

Down, boy.

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Python as Calculator

Quite handy, I say.

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Firefox Packages on Slackware

A time saver, for sure.

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Bash Tips: Set Remote Variables

Seldom necessary, always difficult.

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Dockadd, Revealed

Hey, there it is.

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Subversion Wiki Updates

I've updated the Subversion page on my wiki with instructions for ViewCVS.

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Thursday Miscellaneous

Been blogging only lightly these past few days.

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MySQL Backups with Subversion

Server administration while you sleep.

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Bash Tips: Giving Feedback

Be nice to your users.

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Bash Tips: SCP Compatibility

Where am I? Where are you?

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Bash Tips: Wildcards

Use them constantly.

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Bash Tips: Testing Arguments

Ever want to test command line arguments in bash, mixing arguments and execution options? I have. Here's one way to do it.

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Bash Tips: Automatically Go Root

I did some scripting for work yesterday, and came up with this little snippet to ensure important scripts will run as root.