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Download Font Awesome (source)
Take the file sass/font-awesome.sass and put it in your octopress sass folder
Rename it to _font-awesome.sass
Create a directory 'octpress/source/fonts' and put there the 4 font files (ttf, svg, eot and woff).
In your stylesheet:

$fontAwesomePath: "fontawesome-webfont"
@import font-awesome

Done !

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

Why objects (usually) use less memory than arrays in PHP

This is just a small post in response to [this tweet][tweet] by Julien Pauli (who by the way is the release manager for PHP 5.5). In the tweet he claims that objects use more memory than arrays in PHP. Even though it can be like that, it's not true in most cases. (Note: This only applies to PHP 5.4 or newer.)

The reason why it's easy to assume that objects are larger than arrays is because objects can be seen as an array of properties and a bit of additional information (like the class it belongs to). And as array + additional info > array it obviously follows that objects are larger. The thing is that in most cases PHP can optimize the array part of it away. So how does that work?

The key here is that objects usually have a predefined set of keys, whereas arrays don't:

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Resize a Hard Disk for a Virtual Machine

Our Virtual Machines are provisioned using Vagrant from a Linux base box to run using VirutalBox. If the Hard Disk space runs out and you cannot remove files to free-up space, you can resize the Hard Disk using some VirtualBox and Linux commands.

Some assumptions

The following steps assume you've got a set-up like mine, where:

	#!/bin/sh

	###
	# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
	# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
	###

	# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
	# on the web, most from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# Install MySQL server
	#
	# Author:
	# Colovic Vladan, First Beat Media
	#

	download_dir=/srv/tmp/download
	download_url=https://dl.dropbox.com/u/191471/FirstBeatMedia/mysql-5.6.11-debian6.0-x86_64.deb

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	echo ">>> Starting Install Script"

	# Update
	sudo apt-get update

	# Install MySQL without prompt
	sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password root'
	sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password root'

	# Compiled source #
	###################
	*.com
	*.class
	*.dll
	*.exe
	*.o
	*.so

	# Packages #