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Building Kick SaaS Installation Profiles

Submitted by Nick Vahalik on Fri, 09/16/2016 - 20:36

So back in April of this year, I gave a talk at Texas Camp entitled Building Kick SaaS Installation Profiles.

The slides are over there, but I'm uploading a local copy of them here—just in case!

Note: no audio is available, but the slides might be pretty handy!

Tags: 
drupal

How to monitor any text file import

Submitted by Nick Vahalik on Fri, 07/08/2016 - 15:18

So as I was sitting here just now waiting for an 80+ MB import to process over an SSH connection, I began wondering to myself if there was some way to monitor the progress of an import. Percentage—or even throughput—of the file being sent over the pipe.

Turns out that there is a way!

Enter the command pv.

Tags: 
cli

Taking a look at output buffering in PHP

Submitted by Nick Vahalik on Sun, 06/26/2016 - 23:19

Output buffering in PHP isn't new. It was introduced in PHP 4 and for the most part, it's one of those things that unless you're not using a CMS or a framework, you'll never really need to mess with it much.

However, today I was playing around with doing client-side redirections in JavaScript and wanted to see first-hand how they worked. Modern browsers begin parsing the HTML before it is completely delivered and once the <script> tag is parsed, it is executed immediately.

Tags: 
php