sstephenson

#!/bin/sh

branch=$(git branch 2>/dev/null | grep ^\*)
[ x$1 != x ] && tracking=$1 || tracking=${branch/* /}

git config branch.$tracking.remote origin 
git config branch.$tracking.merge refs/heads/$tracking

echo "tracking origin/$tracking"

pklaus

#!/usr/bin/env python

# found on <http://files.majorsilence.com/rubbish/pygtk-book/pygtk-notebook-html/pygtk-notebook-latest.html#SECTION00430000000000000000>
# simple example of a tray icon application using PyGTK

import gtk
 
def message(data=None):
  "Function to display messages to the user."
  

loonies

PHPUnit API reference

• version 3.6

TODO

Check those constraints:

$this->anything()

ziadoz

Awesome PHP

Awesome PHP has been relocated permanently to its own Github repository. No further updates will made to this gist.

Please open an issue for any new suggestions.

jsor

<?php

namespace Jsor\MysqlAsync;

use React\EventLoop\LoopInterface;
use React\Promise\Deferred;

class Connection
{
    private $loop;

igorw

Go read the blog post.

nikic

Why objects (usually) use less memory than arrays in PHP

This is just a small post in response to [this tweet][tweet] by Julien Pauli (who by the way is the release manager for PHP 5.5). In the tweet he claims that objects use more memory than arrays in PHP. Even though it can be like that, it's not true in most cases. (Note: This only applies to PHP 5.4 or newer.)

The reason why it's easy to assume that objects are larger than arrays is because objects can be seen as an array of properties and a bit of additional information (like the class it belongs to). And as array + additional info > array it obviously follows that objects are larger. The thing is that in most cases PHP can optimize the array part of it away. So how does that work?

The key here is that objects usually have a predefined set of keys, whereas arrays don't:

Blackshawk

In the comments from my last post and on Twitter I noticed a lot of people who had something to say about PHP. The comments were varied but they usally sounded something like this (sorry @ipetepete, I picked yours because it was the shortest).

...the little bits of soul from all of us who've had to work on, and or maintain large PHP applications. – ipetepete

In Pete's defense, he did go on to say that rest of the stack I was using was a "smorgasbord of awesome". Thanks, Pete. I agree!

I would, however, like to take a little time to correct a misperception in the developer community about PHP. I recently got into this same... discussion... with Jeff Atwood, and I seem to be running into it more and more. So here goes. Please bear with me as I cover a little history further on.

Pete, and everybody else, _you're exactly rig

krakjoe

Multi-Threading in PHP with pthreads

A Brief Introduction to Multi-Threading in PHP

• Foreword
• Execution
• Sharing
• Synchronization
• Pitfalls

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.