Hide Folders in PhpStorm Project Pane
How can I hide a directory in a PHPStorm project, for example .sass-cache I just asked myself this morning. Searching online didn’t reveal it to me and there are numerious options that were close but...
View ArticleKubuntu Default Browser
The system-settings don’t reflect the whole picture in Kubuntu. Settings can be done via the command-line. Here exemplary to chromium: gvfs-mime --set x-scheme-handler/http chromium-browser.desktop...
View ArticleThe SimpleXMLElement Magic Wonder World in PHP
PHP’s Simplexml ships with a lot of magic to simplify access to an XML documents element and attribute node values. Some criticize this and suggest to use the DOM library instead. The DOM library on...
View ArticleLinting PHP Files in Parallel on Travis
With PHP 7 around the corner here is a small tip how you can at least lint the code in your project to be PHP 7 syntax compatible. That allows you to easier obtain forward-compatible PHP code with...
View ArticleHistory of the PHP date timezone settings warning
Now with the newborn elefant PHP 7 in the herd, there is a lift on the date timezone settings warning: it has just been removed. That means, it’s now that you need to take care in the server’s...
View ArticleMake any Composer Command Segfault
This is from the shock your co-worker department: There is an easy one-liner to make any composer based project spit “Segmentation fault (core dumped)” regardless of the Composer command entered:...
View ArticleLazy Loading in PHP Object Composition
When it comes to nicely performing PHP scripts (yes in PHP these are all scripts as PHP code is run-time) there is a nice addition since PHP 7 named the Null coalescing operator which plays very well...
View ArticleUsing Assertions with (Legacy) PHP Code
While it was not much advised to use assertions (the assert PHP language construct) prior to PHP 7 due to the fact that it actually eval’ed a string’ed code, these days are gone. This is probably a...
View ArticleGit – Set the Author Date to The Committer Date of a Recent Commit
Ah gosh that one commit has the author date just too far off, but if it would be the same as the committer date, that would be fine… Locate the commit when rebase interactively and mark for edit. Then...
View ArticleSpeedpills 4 Linting PHP Files in Parallel
Quite some time ago I’ve already written about linting PHP files in the shell / build. Even though parallel linting is fine, when the code-base is growing larger and larger, the build becomes slower...
View ArticleDocker Run without “docker run”
So there was this one question on Stackoverflow in which the OP was linking an .htaccess tester for Mod-Rewrite-Rules. Despite this being all fine I was asking myself what about really(tm) testing...
View ArticleExpect more from you Linux Command Line
Just stumbled over two nice written articles about command line usage on Linux by Robert Elder: Don Libes’ Expect: A Surprisingly Underappreciated Unix Automation Tool (Dec 2016; by Robert Elder) An...
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