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Create a self signed ssl certificate QUICK!!

If you’re using IIS7, or newer, you should be able to create a self-signed cert within the IIS manager. Look for that option on your right hand side. For *nix users, run the following command. openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -days 365 -nodes -x509 -keyout server.key -out

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[git] Package only the changed files for deployment

Recently, i have to deploy changes from a git repo to a very secure windows server of a client, so i can’t use the regular git-push and git-pull deployment method. And i can’t use the git-ftp plugin to automate the deployment as well, because there is no ftp/sftp

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ToDo: Guzzle

reminder to myself, needs to read and test this library this week. this package seems like a good “modern” replacement to the old snoopy project and the http_client pear package. if you need to ask me why don’t use curl() function library, I need to have the

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Code snippets for installing all dependencies of phing

in phing’s official download site, it mentions you can install all dependencies using the –alldeps options in pear; however, it’s only partially true. phing depends on a few third party (non standard pear) packages which you need to setup the channels properly using the channel-discover command. to

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Add a swap file or expand exisitng swap space in Ubuntu

This is only a tech note reminder for something i need to do later today. step 1. create a dummy block storage sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=2048 that’s 2048 * 1M = 2G step 2. format the block storage as swap. sudo mkswap /swapfile step 3.

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