Enabling MYSQL_CLIENT_INTERACTIVE with Doctrine 2 on Rackspace Cloud Database
Long-running PHP scripts dropped by the MySQL wait timeout on Rackspace, fixed by subclassing the Doctrine MySQLi connection to pass a flag.
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Orienteering
Step-by-step how-tos. Pick up the map and follow along.
Installing PECL extensions for Zend Server 6
Why PECL extensions fail to build on Debian and Ubuntu under Zend Server 6, and which source and build packages you need to install first.
Better Output for MySQL Select Command Using \G
End a MySQL command-line SELECT with backslash-G instead of a semicolon to get readable row-per-column output rather than a mangled table.
Glorious Gluster - How to setup GlusterFS on Rackspace Cloud and Ubuntu 12.10
Building a replicated GlusterFS distributed filesystem on Rackspace Cloud and Ubuntu 12.10: server setup, formatting bricks and mounting it.
Docblock, Oh Docblock, wherefore art thou Docblock (hint: Zend Optimizer Plus lost them)
Zend OptimizerPlus strips PHP docblocks when it caches bytecode, which quietly breaks Reflection, Doctrine and ZF2. How to get them back.
Our Redmine install died, We all cried!
A fresh Redmine 2.x install on Ubuntu 12.10 with Ruby, Apache, Passenger and MySQL, written after an upgrade went comprehensively wrong.
Debug PHP CLI on Remote Server with Xdebug and PHPStorm
Remote-debugging a PHP CLI script on a LAMP virtual machine from PHPStorm: server path mappings, Xdebug settings and the environment variables.
Quick and easy setup of and connection to NRPE on Ubuntu
Installing and configuring NRPE on Ubuntu so an existing Nagios or Icinga server can run remote checks, including custom command definitions.
Compiling Apache 2.4 on Ubuntu 12.04
Compiling Apache 2.4 from source on Ubuntu 12.04 when no package exists: the configure flags, the event MPM, and the bits that bite.
Compiling PHP 5.4 on Ubuntu 12.04
A reference recipe for compiling PHP 5.4 from source on Ubuntu 12.04: the full apt dependency list and the complete configure line.