PHP Document Root, Path and URL detection
PHP has no built-in base URL variable. In all the mess that is the $_SERVER variable, there is nothing that will tell you the base URL for your website. Thi...
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Track your time working on PHP projects
Have you ever had a project manager? You know, the kind of person that comes to bug you about your timesheet not being properly done and how important it is?...
Generating a unique node id per hostname in Puppet
To generate a unique integer ID in Puppet, we can use the hostname and convert is to base 10 using a erb inline template.
Fixing permissions using inotify and ACLs
I was working on a shared hosting project and I noticed the permissions were getting a bit complicated. For each website: Each user must have read/write pe...
Run a script with lowest priority
When doing low-priority tasks like backups are fixing permissions on a cronjob, it is a good idea to modify the niceness of the script. By using ionice and r...