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How to copy Vagrant boxes (or duplicate them)

Copy vagrant box & compress it Making a real 1:1 copy of a Vagrant box is really easy ! Simply 

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PHP, Ubuntu
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How to install latest PHP 5.4.x on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

Disclaimer: Currently 5.5 is the very latest version of PHP, but the common way to install PHP 5.5 has a 

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Soundcloud’s “VP of Engineering” about using SSDs

Excellent [german] statement from Alexander Grosse (Soundcloud’s Vice President of Engineering) about using SSDs for the main application (music data 

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PHP
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How to install the mcrypt php extension (to use Laravel 4)

When installing Laravel 4 on a fresh Ubuntu or Debian system, you’ll probably get this error message: “Laravel requires the 

phpstorm-8
Git, Local Development, PHP, PHPStorm
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Ignore .idea folder from git in PHPStorm

By default (?) PHPStorm will create a hidden folder named .idea directly within your project, containing user-specific stuff like chosen 

phpstorm-8
Local Development, PHP
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A PHPStorm shortcuts cheat sheet (for Windows, Mac OS and Linux)

Shortcuts that will make you life so much easier! Please note: Frontend Devs might be irritated by the weird CTRL-Y-shortcut, 

set up a local virtual machine for development with vagrant and puphpet / puppet (and ubuntu, linux, php, apache, mysql)
Linux, Local Development, Modern PHP, Vagrant, Virtual Machine / VM
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A list of downloadable Vagrant boxes (CentOS 5.9 / 6.4, Ubuntu 12 / 13, Debian 6 / 7 / 7.1 / 7.2)

Offical boxes (directly from Vagrant) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box   Boxes from puppetlabs.com Seems 

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Modern PHP, PHP
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12 tools for better PHP quality

Nice selection of 12 tools every PHP developer should bookmark. I totally love how the PHP community becomes some kind 

hiphop php
HipHop, Modern PHP, PHP, PHP-compiling
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PHP’s HipHop outperforms PHP 5.5 with Zend OPCache and Nginx by 15-20 times

A very interesting benchmark on www.alexfu.it shows excellent comparisons of plain PHP on Nginx (PHP 5.3 I think) PHP on 

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HipHop, Linux, Local Development, Modern PHP, PHP, PHP-compiling, Ubuntu, Vagrant, Virtual Machine / VM
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A preinstalled Vagrant box with PHP HipHop / HHVM and Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

This is the same post like this one, but this time with Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. If you need to 

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[Link] Retinafy your Site / Device by Nijiko Yonskai

A simple one-page Gist with all the information you need to make your sites retina-ready: Nijiko Yonskai – Retinafy your

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The SSL Heartbleed bug explained in 30 seconds

Another excellent comic by xkcd (a site that publishes dev/op/web-related comics, usually nailing things right to the head): This time

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PHPStorm 8 has just been released

The excellent PHP IDE PHPStorm just had a major release these days: Version 8 is out, coming with latest PHP

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Which PHP-framework to learn in 2014 ? PHALCON, by far the fastest ever!

Hey guys, just a short little article between the years: If you have the possibility to learn and use a

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Learn AngularJS in 20 (or 90) minutes with Dan Wahlin

Definitly two of the best and most up-to-date short-introductions into AngularJS: Dan Wahlin shows how to build a full little

DEF CON 18 – When your computer got stolen and you can still SSH into it: “Pwned by the 0wner” (22min conference talk)

A fantastic masterpiece of a conference talk: Mac got stolen. Bummer! Two years later: owner SSHs into it (!), installs

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How to install php-login-minimal on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

In this article I’ll show you how to install the minimal version of the php-login.net‘s login script (see the GitHub

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[Link] How to set up HipHop, Nginx and Laravel in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (in a Vagrant box)

This is probably the most useful tutorial in 2014 so far. An excellent post by Chris Fidao, explaining how to

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PHP Opcache Explained by Julien Pauli (video from PHP UK Conference 2014)

The title says it all. A VERY deep explanation on how OpCache works. If you never heard of this excellent

[Link] Improving Smashing Magazine’s Performance: A Case Study

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