junkystu

# The idea of this deployment script is to create a deploy copy of your website and handle
# Git and Composer updates in there. Aferwards, it just renames that deploy copy to become the 
# live website. We then run the database migrations and take the application out of maintenance mode.

# Obviously, you will have to replace all instances of {{ websiteName }} with the name of your website and
# {{ branchName }} with the name of the branch you would like to pull changes from. This is usually the master branch.

# Start by checking for for old deployment folder and remove it if we have one.
if [ -d "/home/forge/{{ websiteName }}-deploy" ]; then
  rm -Rf /home/forge/{{ websiteName }}-deploy

jrmadsen67

Quick tip for handling CSRF Token Expiration - common issue is when you use csrf protection is that if 
a form sits there for a while (like a login form, but any the same) the csrf token in the form will 
expire & throw a strange error.

Handling it is simple, and is a good lesson for dealing with other types of errors in a custom manner.

In Middleware you will see a file VerifyCsrfToken.php and be tempted to handle things there. DON'T! 
Instead, look at your app/Exceptions/Handler.php, at the render($request, Exception $e) function.

All of your exceptions go through here, unless you have excluded them in the $dontReport array at the 

tott

/**
 * Check if a given ip is in a network
 * @param  string $ip    IP to check in IPV4 format eg. 127.0.0.1
 * @param  string $range IP/CIDR netmask eg. 127.0.0.0/24, also 127.0.0.1 is accepted and /32 assumed
 * @return boolean true if the ip is in this range / false if not.
 */
function ip_in_range( $ip, $range ) {
	if ( strpos( $range, '/' ) == false ) {
		$range .= '/32';
	}

dominicsayers

1. sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
2. wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/s3tools/s3cmd/1.5.0-alpha1/s3cmd-1.5.0-alpha1.tar.gz
3. tar xvfz s3cmd-1.5.0-alpha1.tar.gz
4. cd s3cmd-1.5.0-alpha1
5. python setup.py install
6. s3cmd --configure

oodavid

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

hughsk

var shuffleAndValidateFiles = function(files) {
	var F = new Array();
	while (files.length > 0) {
		var N = Math.floor(Math.random()*files.length);

		if ((files[N] instanceof File) && !files[N].hidden) {
			F.push(files[N]);
		}

		files.splice(N,1);