I work a lot with terminal windows, and on my MacBook Pro I use iTerm2 for this. But a lot of tabs can be confusing. Unfortunately, there is no simple GUI for setting tab names in iTerm2 (that I have found). After a quick question, Joshua Thijssen found the answer on how to do this through a simple command.
posted on January 26, 2012 - 2 comment(s) - tags: iterm2, osx, bash, shell scripting, automationToday I needed to get a client application up and running on my local system. This application uses the Geoip PECL package, so I needed to get this up and running. This turned out to be slightly more difficult than just a PECL install, as you're missing some libraries by default, so here is my log of things to do to get it up and running.
posted on January 11, 2012 - 5 comment(s) - tags: pecl, geoip, zend server, php, i386, re2c, communityRight, end of the year, time to look back. Let's have a look at the things that have happened this year. If you've read my PHP|architect column in the december issue, you might've already read some things, but my annual "looking back" post here is based more on my blog. So, let's have a look.
posted on December 31, 2011 - 5 comment(s) - tags: php, symfony, 2011As the year ends, we're looking back at an interesting year. More of that you'll also find in the PHP|architect december community column, which I've written looking back at the year a bit. But that is about the PHP community, not about the global community. We should be grateful for living "in the west", where despite economic issues, we live a good and usually healthy life. And if we're ill, we can get treated. And depending on social system and insurance, we still get paid, even if we can't work for a while. There are places in the world where this isn't the case. I personally believe we have a responsibility to support those that don't have all the opportunities we have.
posted on December 29, 2011 - 23 comment(s) - tags: php, symfony, kiva, micro-financing, pfcongresWhat to do when you want to migrate to Symfony2, but can't invest the time into rewriting your whole application at once? I get this questions sometimes, and I've asked myself as well for some time already. Talking to other people, I found I was not the only person struggling with this issue. Wrapping Symfony2 around your old application is one option, and I've found this works well in some situations. To automate this, I wrote a very simple wrapper bundle: IngewikkeldWrapperBundle.
posted on December 21, 2011 - 6 comment(s) - tags: symfony, Symfony2, php, bundle, open source, migration
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