Longest Common Prefix Between Two Strings
While working on a “for fun” side project I needed to get the longest common prefix of two arbitrary strings.…
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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…
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…
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…
php open locking daemon
Don’t you hate that… When it’s 2:00am… and you really should be in bed… But your mind has hold of…
Bigger Aint Always Better
Recently I was troubleshooting some inefficiencies with the jobs systems locking and fetching queries at work. Like a good little…
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…
random php… a multi-channel chat rooom class using memcached for persistence
why? i dunno… just because… just a toy… no sql, no flat file, no write permissions required anywhere, no fuss…