ipbastola

Safest way to clean up boot partition - Ubuntu 14.04LTS-x64, Ubuntu 16.04LTS-x64

Reference

Case I: if /boot is not 100% full and apt is working

1. Check the current kernel version

$ uname -r 

michaelstivala

<?php

namespace App\Elastic;

use Elasticsearch\Client;

class Elastic
{
    protected $client;

folivares

Nginx Server Blocks configuration to run more than one Laravel 5.1 web-app off of a single Linux server

Prerequisites

• PHP package: php5-fpm php5-mcrypt php5-mysql
• Laravel 5.1
• Nginx 1.8

Default Server Block

hewerthomn

Remove old PostGIS Installation

The first step is to remove older version of PostGIS if any.

sudo apt-get purge postgis

Setup repository

wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ trusty-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/postgresql.list'

jbinfo

Multiple PHP version under Ubuntu 14.04

Update your machine

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Install some dependencies

apt-get install build-essential

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: