I know there are a load of solutions out there already, but nothing that I could see that were as simple as I needed, or as flexible. In particularly I have one project which uses the core code across three …
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Git with Selenium UI Testing – Unpredictable results
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on June 12, 2013
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A quick, and rather silly one, that has just caught me out a couple of times: Take a situation where you’re working on a site, and want to run some Selenium tests in the background, possibly with a CI server …
WordPress 3.4.1 and AJAX problems
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on July 25, 2012
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Overnight another team member updated the main blogs to the newest version of WP, and subsequently some plugins we use failed to work correctly. The plugins display a list of items which are retrieved via an API call to our …
Handling config files for local development, staging and production in PHP
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on May 17, 2012
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I’ve had a few stabs at this and never been particularly happy with how it works. My last move was to only provide a skeleton config file under versioning, then complete variables like DB user and pass on individual servers. …
Turn PHP Xdebug profiling on and off by BASH script
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on March 3, 2012
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It was bugging me (debugging me?) that Xdebug profiling dragged my development server down so much. So here’s a simple script to place in /usr/local/bin to turn it off and on more easily. Remember to chmod +x it first. This …
Static variables in PHP functions
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on February 22, 2012
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Today I had to pull an identifying array from a DB to be used by an inner loop to apply categories to some book details I was parsing. Clearly I wanted to build this array once so it had to …
Using Fail2Ban to protect WordPress
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on February 16, 2012
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I posted some previous ideas on this that were okay, but they turned out to be less-than-ideal solutions. They work, but one of the blogs I watch over is a bit busy, and having Fail2Ban watching the Apache access.log was …
Separating source code from web root with PHP and NetBeans
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on December 19, 2011
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I recently tidied my server filesystem and ended up making webroot a little more secure by keeping all of my source out of there, and having nothing that I edit directly in place. Mainly this was done to avoid duplication …
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