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Reading this weekend about a backdoor introduced to the open source xz project.…

A while back, I wrote about dealing with the Apache / FastCGI error 'Primary sc…

For some reason, the Homebrew version of composer hasn't been working recently,…

This past weekend, I started playing with GitHub Pages for the first time. It …

PHP's defacto package manager, composer, has long required large amounts of mem…

I recently needed to sort query results to match the order of IDs passed to it …

At Cogneato, we use symlinks to point the web server to different versions of o…

Deploying updates to my site with a composer lock file seemed slower since updat…

I see that composer has released its 2.0 version. Nice. My biggest hope of imp…

I recently had the need to take a name from a form submission and use it as the…

In PHP scripts that run queries to a MySQL database over a long period of time,…

I recently needed to programmatically import SQL files containing database dump…

I'm kind of excited that we moved the first site onto a new server setup at Cog…

Today I learned that PHP's mkdir() with the octal permission argument apparently…

If you're routing requests for script file names through FastCGI, and don't hav…

We were getting errors on our server where certain pages or even sites would oc…

In versions of PHP before 5, constructors were functions with the same name as …

I recently got h2 (HTTP 2.0) running on my server. The new protocol should spe…

I've finally updated my server to Ubuntu 18.04 using do-release-upgrade. It to…

My 10k Apart entry was finally deployed and can be seen at its Azure URL, thoug…

Recently, I needed to strip some HTML tags from some data. The goal was to mak…

I recently had to set up a PHP script to send an email with an attachment. Wit…

Normally globbing for the wildcard * will find all files in a directory except …

Dreamhost now has PHP 7, so I've switched my main sites to it. Seem at least sl…

I got PHP 7 working locally finally. It worked for CLI just fine when I first i…

Until recently, I had no experience working with sites behind load balancers. …

I will be talking about using namespaced PHP classes with static properties for…

With rebuilding my website with WordPress, I have made progress on the WordPres…

At Cogneato, we are using Symfony's PHP templating engine to render our views f…

At Cogneato we've had a CMS that has been built up over more than a decade. We…

For lists of narrow pieces of content, it can make sense to put them in multipl…

A while back, I wrote about using the JSONesque literal value parameters in Jav…

I've been working on my own site a bit since getting out of school. I've been …