Recently I’ve been working with PHP applications in varying states of modernity/antiquity, and very regularly have to switch the current PHP version to accomodate the PHP flavors of the day. Homebrew un/link commands are super simple and at this point all I want is to be able to switch the PHP version with a single command. With a little bit of searching, I found a script that comes pretty close to what I need:...
Since Hubot ships with a Redis Brain by default, I decided to use this as an opportunity to learn some Redis. While reading through Redis documentation, I came across Redis Mass Insertion, which sparked an odd curiosity (twinkle twinkle). The main crux of Redis Mass Insertion is a recommendation to write large data sets to a Redis instance using the Redis protocol with redis-cli --pipe rather than pushing data through a Redis client....
Part of the process of migrating new customers to Acquia Hosting involves adding (or verifying the presence of) three Drupal modules: Acquia Network Connector: get status and recommendations from Acquia Insight Fast 404: reduce the cost of 404s Memcache API and Integration: improve performance by moving cache data into memory Manual?! Awe shucks… Verifying, adding, and committing these modules manually generally takes about five to ten minutes and can be error-prone....
I made a bunch of big changes to the GoAccess shell plugin including improved argument handling, greater agnosticism, and greater configurability with time filtering. I converted the plugin from sourced script to regular bash script. This meant the script components had to be ordered into a sequential configuration, but this also makes the script more portable and easier to fire up. The script options now support short and long call values, courtesy of Stack Overflow....
With analyzing data sets and performing repetitive (and tedious) tasks, piping streams in the terminal can save a ridiculous amount of manual labor and time. Following are a few examples that I use in diagnosing and resolving various types of problems with web applications. Assuming log entries in the following format: 1.1.1.1 - - [24/Aug/2013:12:55:30 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 2227 "-" "USER AGENT STRING" vhost=vhost.example.com host=example.com hosting_site=docroot request_time=5640229 Number of Requests $ for i in {0....