Monthly Archives: January 2011

Talking at the PHP Benelux 2011

January 23, 2011
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Talking at the PHP Benelux 2011

As you might know, the PHPBenelux Conference 2011 is right around the corner. Happy to inform you that not only will I attend, but also will be speaking at this event. My talk will be about the awesome things you can do with Sed & Awk. Not necessarily a talk you would expect on a…

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Using syslog for your php applications

January 12, 2011
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Linux, and other unices have an excellent system to centralize log events. This is done through syslog. This system removes the need for every application to maintain their own log files and let the syslog server handle all the events. Depending on the type of event that is logged, it can take additional action like…

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PHP 5.4: RegexIterator::getRegex()

January 6, 2011
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Recently, my colleague Jeroen van Dijk needed to extend (or better yet: override) the accept() method for the RegexIterator. Turns out this wasn’t as easy as it might sound in practice. So after extending and overriding multiple methods he found an acceptable solution. But there is room for improvement. And starting from PHP 5.4, this…

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12 tips for securing your linux systems

January 5, 2011
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From time to time I get amazed how people can setup their production servers. At the smallish development companies there is no real system administrator available to setup the systems and to keep them up to date. Now I’ve seen systems that have been setup ranging from “somebody with sufficient knowledge” to “this-was-setup-by-the-janitor” and everything…

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