If you end up writing better code or learning something new because of us, we are doing something right. This is why we are super excited to announce our latest partnership with KnpUniversity offering the full “Starting in Symfony 2.1″ screencasts to our clients (new or existing). If you are not yet our client and [...]
Category: Tutorials
Creating development environments with Vagrant and Puppet
Vagrant is a powerful tool that simplifies the setup of a development environment by creating a virtual machine on your local machine that can be configured to look exactly like ServerGrove’s production server. With this post you will learn how to configure Vagrant using the same specifications of your ServerGrove VPS. It’s been a few [...]
How to install Zend Guard Loader for PHP on a VPS
In order to install Zend Guard Loader, we need to download the extension from the Zend Downloads Page. It will download a tarball file, that we will have to uncompress. $ tar -xzf ZendGuardLoader-php-5.3-linux-glibc23-x86_64.tar.gz Once we have uncompressed the file, we will proceed with the installation. The extension is already compiled, so we just need to [...]
January 09 / 2013
Dealing with “Too many open files” when running tests with PHPUnit
If you are performing unit tests on large PHP applications with PHPUnit, you may encounter the error “Too many open files”. It happens, don’t take it personally. This error occurs because the OS sets a maximum number of files (also known as file descriptors) allowed to be opened by a process, and inevitably this will [...]
August 17 / 2012
Setting up a Symfony2 project using Mamp
This might be the easiest way to setup a Symfony dev environment. Say what you want of Mamp but it makes it dead easy to setup and manage your localhost server. Mamp is an excellent development environment especially if you are a newbie just starting off, and is definitely the simplest way to setup a [...]
June 01 / 2012
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