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[
  "United States"                                => "us",
  "Afghanistan"                                  => "af",
  "Albania"                                      => "al",
  "Algeria"                                      => "dz",
  "American Samoa"                               => "as",
  "Andorra"                                      => "ad",
  "Angola"                                       => "ad",
  "Anguilla"                                     => "ai",
  "Antarctica"                                   => "aq",

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I recommend using Gulp, instead of a PHP package, to compress the HTML that gets generated by your Blade template files. It works very well and is very configurable. It uses [gulp-htmlmin](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/gulp-htmlmin), which uses [html-minifier](https://github.com/kangax/html-minifier).

### Create a new task in your `gulpfile.js`

```javascript
var htmlmin = require('gulp-htmlmin');
var gulp = require('gulp');

gulp.task('compress', function() {
    var opts = {

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*This post is also on [my blog](http://www.samselikoff.com/blog/preparing-for-ember-2.0/), since Gist doesn't support @ notifications.*

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Components are taking center stage in Ember 2.0. Here are some things you can do today to make the transition as smooth as possible:

 - Use Ember CLI
 - In general, replace views + controllers with components
 - Only use controllers at the top-level for receiving data from the route, and use `Ember.Controller` instead of `Ember.ArrayController` or `Ember.ObjectController`
 - Fetch data in your route, and set it as normal properties on your top-level controller. Export an `Ember.Controller`, otherwise a proxy will be generated. You can use Ember.RSVP.hash to simulate setting normal props on your controller.

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#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
if (!$argc) die('This file is not viewable from the web');
$pdo = new PDO('sqlite:' . __DIR__ . '/registry.sq3');
$query = 'create table if not exists registrants(first TEXT, last TEXT, registered_timestamp INTEGER);';
$success = $pdo->exec($query);
if ($success !== false) {
    print "Database create command executed successfully\n";
} else {
    sprintf(

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Using phpMyAdmin with Homestead box

Once the Homestead vagrant box is installed successfully, we can add phpMyAdmin and config it to run with Nginx.

Install phpMyAdmin

• SSH into Homestead vagrant box with vagrant ssh and type the following command:

    sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin