Using PHP and OpenSSH with username/password auth
It turns out that this is actually a tricky problem. It’s super easy to use the OpenSSH command line stuff…
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PHP SSH2 code
I’ve had a need to use the PHP SSH2 PECL recently (working on making a product, at work, more efficient)…
Time based bloom filters
I find this concept fascinating and plan to investigate further down this road.
php debugging the really really hard way
If you’re ever in a situation where something is only happening intermittently, and only on a live server, and only…
Howto: Enable regular expression highlighting in LimeChat
in LimeChat.app/Contents/Resources/logrenderer.rb around line 419… WFM. IANAL. YMMV. RTFM. OMGWTF. WTL. GTFO. ETC. words.each do |w| next if w.empty? s…
Quality Time With Your JPEGs
When working with user provided images in PHP you run into a problem. Lets say that you want to generate…
Just because you build it, doesnt mean they will come
Here’s a small bit of advice for all you would-be “cloud storage providers.” Just because you have a buttload of…
Just what you need to know to write a CouchDB reduce function
Lets say you have the CouchDB classes (located here) all compiled together and included into your test.php script. Lets also…
making munin-graph take advantage of multiple cpus/cores
I do a lot of things for Automattic, and many of the things I do are quite esoteric (for a…
Using wait, $!, and () for threading in bash
This is a simplistic use of the pattern that I wrote about in my last post to wait on multiple…