Monthly Archives: March 2012

PHPShout : a shoutcast streamer in PHP: Part 4

March 24, 2012
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PHPShout : a shoutcast streamer in PHP: Part 4

In the last post, we created a template extension for our shout class. Next up, we need to do the actual implementation.

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PHPShout : a shoutcast streamer in PHP: Part 3

March 24, 2012
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In the last post, we started with the implementation of the constructor and one method. Next up, let’s do a bunch more.

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PHPShout : a shoutcast streamer in PHP: Part 2

March 24, 2012
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In the last post, we created a template extension for our shout class. Next up, we need to do the actual implementation.

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PHPShout : a shoutcast streamer in PHP: Part 1

March 24, 2012
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PHPShout : a shoutcast streamer in PHP:  Part 1

To continue our journey in pointless, but nevertheless fun things to create, I’ve created a simple PHP extension that allows you stream music data to an IceCast server in pure PHP. For this I’m using the libshout3 library which can stream both MP3 or OGG/Vorbis data to multiple stream servers (including IceCast, ShoutCast etc). In…

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PHP has moved to git!

March 19, 2012
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PHP has moved to git!

Good news everybody! PHP has (finally) moved their version control from subversion to git and placed their repository on github. Meaning it just got easier to maintain PHP  but also it makes it easier for external contributors (without any write-access) to create patches and for contributors to merge them. Hopefully this will mean the end…

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Ideas of march

March 15, 2012
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Yes, I’m a lemming. If a see a group of people jumping off a cliff, I will follow blindly. If somebody calls for more blogposts in the world, I happily write a blogpost for it. But, being the subordinate lemming I like to pretend I am, I don’t completely see myself in the situation that…

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Why putting SSH on another port than 22 is bad idea

March 12, 2012
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I see a lot of companies and users moving their SSH port to a non-privileged port like 2222 or even 36797. Now, there are few reasons why people would do this, all of them incorrect and dangerous. Some of those reasons I will not even mention, just to protect the people who actually use them…

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Freelancing: episode 1

March 4, 2012
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A few months ago, I decided to quit my current job and start with freelancing. Or actually, only the “quit my job” part I knew for sure, on the freelancing part I was still wondering if I should make that step. However, a few month later, I decided to share with Google^WInternet on how I’m…

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