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OSX: How to take a screen shot
There are several ways to capture your screen on OSX. Find below the key sequences to the most used screen capture commands. Entire display screen shot This takes an screenshot of your entire display. CMD+SHIFT+3
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Posted in Mac OS X
Tar and compress in one easy step
When taring files and directories the chances are you will want to compress the archive as well. Here’s how to do it quickly, in a single command: tar -czvf archive.tgz directory
Posted in Linux
Executing a command with input from find output
Files on Linux can be found in quite a few different ways, two of the more common commands are find and locate. Personally I tend to use find more so over locate due to the higher search-ability and actions available …
Posted in Linux
List the last 10 files in a directory and order
Listing of files is a common procedure day in day out when on the command line and more often than not you will want to list the last X amount of files. Doing so is pretty simple: ls -ltr | …
Posted in Linux
How to clear your DNS cache on OS X
When a DNS change has occurred on your network, unlike what seems to be believed, you do not need to reboot your Mac.
Posted in Mac OS X
Debugging methods for PHP
I recently read an article about the most commonly used PHP functions and while reading I was thinking about the most useful functions I tend to use day in, day out when debugging.
Posted in PHP
7 tips to prevent PHP running out of memory
Is the following error familiar to you? Fatal error: Allowed memory size of XXX bytes exhausted It is to me and recently I’ve written an import script that reads the contents of 10 XML files. These files accumulate a total …
Posted in PHP
symfony 1.2+ tasks: The “default” context does not exist
If you happen to run into the error ‘The “default” context does not exist’ when running a custom symfony task the chances are you’re using a method of an object which utilizes sfContext. It seems symfony does not create an …
Posted in PHP
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