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This is a quick guide on installing HTTPie for Mac OS X systems. This is also useful if you want the python package management utility pip. An installed copy of Homebrew is a prerequisite.

The easy way

brew install httpie

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# Last updated May, 2024 for Apple silicon Macs
# Install Homebrew if you don't already have it: https://brew.sh

# install nano from homebrew
brew install nano nanorc

# update your nanorc file
echo 'include "'"$(brew --cellar nano)"'/*/share/nano/*.nanorc"' >> ~/.nanorc

# close and re-open your terminal and you'll have syntax highlighting

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<?php

$data = range(0, 1000000);

echo sprintf('%02.2f', (memory_get_usage() / 1048576))." MB of memory used\n";

// output: 137.92 MB of memory used

foreach ($data as $key => $val) {
    //echo "key: ".$key." value: ".$val."\n";

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#!/bin/bash

# Generate a changelog between the v1 and v2 tags

# See the "pretty formats" section of the git manual if you want to customize the output: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-log.html

git log --no-merges --format="%an: %s" v1..v2

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<?php

foreach (hash_algos() as $algo) {

    $start_time = microtime(TRUE);

    for ($index = 0; $index <= 500000; $index++) {
        $hash = hash($algo, $index);
    }

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# Install IUS and EPEL yum repos
wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
wget http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/CentOS/5/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-11.ius.centos5.noarch.rpm
rpm -i ius-release-1.0-11.ius.centos5.noarch.rpm epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

# make sure your system is up to date for good measure
yum update

# Install the required packages
yum install libgearman-devel php53u-devel gcc

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Saw this interesting PHP Challenge. 

Replace SOMETHING so that the output is Hello World. 

if (SOMETHING) {
echo "Hello";
} else {
echo "World";
}

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wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS/gearmand-1.1.8-2.el6.src.rpm

yum install rpm-build libuuid-devel boost-devel boost-thread sqlite-devel tokyocabinet-devel libevent-devel libmemcached-devel memcached gperf postgresql-devel gperftools-devel

rpmbuild --rebuild ~/gearmand-1.1.8-2.el6.src.rpm

rpm -Uhv ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/*.rpm

service gearmand start

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// This script loops though the list of collection names in a MongoDB and runs the compact operation on them
// Simply paste this into the Mongo shell

use testDbName;
db.getCollectionNames().forEach(function (collectionName) {
    print('Compacting: ' + collectionName);
    db.runCommand({ compact: collectionName });
});

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<?php

# /app/start/global.php

/*

This results in several dated log files

/app/storage/logs/log-apache2handler-2014-02-02.txt
/app/storage/logs/log-apache2handler-2014-02-03.txt