Joined March 2012
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[PHP] String Length, The Right Way
over 1 year
ago
Take a look at the mbstring.func_overload
php.ini setting too: http://us1.php.net/manual/en/mbstring.overload.php
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Generate a .gitignore file right from the command-line
over 1 year
ago
You mentioned github, anyone working on a project they're going to host on github you should know that when you create a new repository, you can create it with a .gitignore
file that you select for the particular language/platform you're going to use.
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Reuse parts of previous command
over 1 year
ago
Awesome, I didn't know about that. I also recently discovered that there's even a var that gets set: $_
is set to the last arg of the previous command.
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'git pull' is evil!
over 1 year
ago
Thank you @jugyo and @nevir - git pull
is hardly evil if you use it properly.
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Only digits: Regex and filter_var
over 1 year
ago
$simpler_regex = preg_replace( '/\D/', '', $str);
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Random string generator, Bash
over 1 year
ago
Found I needed LC_ALL on bash v4.2 in OSX Terminal
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