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In PHP we have the for and foreach loops, which are both handy, but there is a case where a 3rd type of for loop would be handy: Iterators.

With 5.5 it became super easy to use Iterators, by simple creating a Generator. While working on my itertools port to PHP (here), I found a situation where both the for and foreach constructs fell short.

Example

I had created counter Generator which just creates an Iterator that starts at a given number and counts indefinitely. Then, I wanted to create a version of range which used an Iterator. Now, I could do this with a few for loops like in the PHP docs, but I wanted to use my new fancy counter function, so I started with a for loop:

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.
Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

This document details how to add the background mode of fetch into the Titanium SDK. It is important to note that once these updates are performed you will be able to attach a listener to be called when the fetch background mode is triggered.

After the below updates are made, you can clear your Titanium project and run this sample app.js to view how it works.

TiBase.h and TiBase.m updates

The first step in adding the fetch background mode is to create the const values that will later be used when adding or listening to notification center.

To do this first open the TiBase.h file and add the const of

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.
Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

	#!/bin/bash

	# SSH into a Vagrant VM, forwarding ports in a way that allows node within Vagrant to be debugged by a debugger
	# or IDE in the host operating system. Don't know why, but Vagrantfile port forwarding does not work.
	# (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vagrant-up/RzPooJ0dp6Q)

	/usr/bin/vagrant ssh-config > $TMPDIR/vagrant-ssh-config
	ssh -F $TMPDIR/vagrant-ssh-config -L 5858:127.0.0.1:5858 default
	rm $TMPDIR/vagrant-ssh-config

	/*
	* Copyright (C) 2006, 2008 Valery Kholodkov
	* Client body reception code Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Igor Sysoev
	* Temporary file name generation code Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Igor Sysoev
	*/
	#include <ngx_config.h>
	#include <ngx_core.h>
	#include <ngx_http.h>
	#include <nginx.h>

	/*
	* ActionBar Helper Class for Appcelerator Titanium
	* Author: Ricardo Alcocer
	*
	* Licensed under the MIT License (the "License");
	* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	* You may obtain a copy of the License at
	*
	* http://alco.mit-license.org/
	*

	#!/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'

	<?php

	/**
	* Intention:
	*
	* "testing" environment has a SQLite database configured
	* Run migrations against --env=testing
	*
	* Separate seeds run here per test method will delete the SQLite
	* code tables, and re-create them with codes that fit the needs

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Bash script to automate Vim+Tmux install as written about here:
	# http://fideloper.com/mac-vim-tmux

	# Test if Git is installed.
	# Installing Git is not the job of this script
	git --version 2>&1 >/dev/null
	GIT_IS_INSTALLED=$?