I'm Chris Tankersley
Software Engineer Jack of All Trades
While I primarily describe myself as a PHP Developer, I'm a polyglot developer, architect, and developer evangelist. I am the author of "Docker for Developers" and "The Dev Lead Trenches", was the co-host of Jerks Talk Games, and speaker. I am also a core committee member of the PHP FIG.
My Latest Posts
2007-05-22
Ever log into a box, or install a new distro, only to find that the prompt is either just a # or it only provides very minimalistic information? Well, it's easy to change the look of the command prompt by editing the ~/.profile or other appropriate file.
2007-05-21
A downside to any scripted language is that it is recompiled every time that it is run. CPU cycles are wasted compiling both simple and complicated scripts over and over, regardless if the actual output even changes. What can you do to stop this kind of waste? If you are using PHP, there are quite a few caching mechanisms. I spent most of today trying to get a few of them to work with OpenBSD 4.1 with very little success. One that I did get working was APC.
2007-05-20
Funny thing with OpenBSD 4.1 and VMWare ESX Server - they aren't compatible. I tried installing OpenBSD in ESX under both the Other and FreeBSD and both times OpenBSD complained about seeing a duplicate IPv6 address on the network. Everything worked fine downloading packages and SSHing into the box. I set up Apache and started to test it.