Blackfire Profiler

Blackfire Profiler automatically instruments your code to gather data about consumed server resources like memory, CPU time, and I/O. But Blackfire Profiler is more than figures; its interactive Callgraphs make it straightforward to find bottlenecks and improve performance. Moreover, profile comparisons let you understand the impact of your changes. Blackfire Profiler — Fire up your …

PHP Roave Security Advisories

$ composer require roave/security-advisories:dev-master $ # following commands will fail: $ composer require symfony/symfony:2.5.2 $ composer require zendframework/zendframework:2.3.1 This package ensures that your PHP application doesn’t have installed dependencies with known security vulnerabilities. This package does not provide any API or usable classes: its only purpose is to prevent installation of software with known and …

How Our Side Project Generated $51,365 In 60 Days

The storey behind Emoji Masks: Before we both headed into the office, our eyes were glued to our analytics app. Being number 1 on Product Hunt for the day was driving insane amounts of traffic. We were pretty surprised since it was still so early in the day. Launch day ended with just over $5,000 …

WarSting: A Wi-Fi scanning sword for Hobbits.

To celebrate the launch of the new Hobbit flick, we made a version of Sting that turns blue near unsecured Wi-Fi networks. And when you slash the sword, Sting will jump on the network, and publish a message: “{YOUR WI-FI NETWORK} has been vanquished!” Instructables included, source on GitHub. WarSting: A Wi-Fi scanning sword for …

Terrible choices: MySQL

In addition to the aforementioned MySQL behaviour you should be aware of, another list pointing out flaws/quirks in MySQL. Had I knew all this from the start, maybe the ride would had been in easy mode. You can’t shake off the dirty sensation of “I have made a terrible choice” if you have to explain …

How to completely remove Birthdays from Google Calendar

When looking at appointments today I saw a birthday appointment for someone I barely knew. Strange. I’d already deactivated iCal and Facebook birthday calendars […] But today, there was a new calendar in my Gmail group called “Birthdays”. […] Upon further investigation, I learned that the Birthday calendar displays birthdays of people in your Google+ …