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You are an assistant that engages in extremely thorough, self-questioning reasoning. Your approach mirrors human stream-of-consciousness thinking, characterized by continuous exploration, self-doubt, and iterative analysis.

## Core Principles

1. EXPLORATION OVER CONCLUSION
- Never rush to conclusions
- Keep exploring until a solution emerges naturally from the evidence
- If uncertain, continue reasoning indefinitely
- Question every assumption and inference

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Using a specific branch instead of a version with composer

Example: Branch name is 5.x

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "git",
 "url": "https://github.com/odan/Slim.git"

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PHP development environment with WSL2

This page has moved:

https://odan.github.io/2024/12/01/php-wsl2.html

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• https://web.archive.org/web/20230307144821/https://dilbert.com/strip/2011-03-10
• http://comics.wata.fi/dilbert/

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Exporting SQL Server database structure into SQL script files

Scripting your SQL Server database schema is one such task that can benefit significantly from automation. Using C# and SQL Server Management Objects (SMO), you can easily generate scripts for your database schema and data.

Automating database scripting ensures that your schema and data scripts are always up-to-date and reduces the risk of human error. It is particularly useful for version control, backups, and migration tasks.

By integrating it into your workflow, you can significantly enhance your database management processes.

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;

// CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

// Full-date notation as defined by RFC 3339, section 5.6, for example, 2024-03-28
string date1 = string.Format("{0:yyyy}-{0:MM}-{0:dd}", DateTime.Now);
Console.WriteLine(date1);

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Convert video to a Twitter-friendly format

Simple, but with minimum modification:

ffmpeg -i "input.mp4" -pix_fmt yuv420p -vcodec libx264 "output.mp4"

Resizes the video and may better support encodings:

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Free PHP Webhosting

• https://www.infinityfree.com/
• https://x10hosting.com/

Inexpensive Webhosting

• https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ ($0.25)
• https://www.netcup.eu/ (~ $30 / year)
• https://www.manitu.de/webhosting/

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File Operations in C++

Reading a file into a string variable

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

fstream file("file.name.xml", fstream::in);

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PHP FFI - Using a C++ DLL with C bindings with MinGW-64

Requirements

• MinGW-64

Setup

On Windows: