There is absolutely no official documentation available, so this guy just saved me many hours of tedious reverse engineering. I found this gist looking for instructions on replacing a PEAR-installed PHPUnit package with the latest code available on GitHub. Symfony2's internal tests target the current development version, and it took me a long minute to figure that out in the first place.

I’m in love with GitHub and I don’t mind paying a few bucks a month to host private code repositories there. It’s not without its issues though, and I’ve often had trouble getting others to collaborate with me via GitHub for one reason or another. Desiring more control, I was thrilled when GitHub:FI was announced. Unfortunately, the licensing fees are staggering and put the service far out of my reach. Recently, my buddy Marcus Whitney had been messing around with Redmine and my interest was piqued by his results. I decided to jump in head first and try to build a reliable GitHub:FI alternative using an Ubuntu VPS, Git, Gitosis, Gmail (or Google Apps for Domains), and Bitnami’s Redmine Stack.

I have a check written out to me from a local Nashville company, drawn on their Bank of America account. I no longer have a personal BOA account (thankfully) but I’ve never had a problem cashing a BOA check at a BOA branch, since that’s a pretty standard transaction. Regions is notorious in my mind for charging $5 per-check if you don’t have a Regions account, which they upped to $7 about a month ago. This whole concept of charging a fee to cash checks drawn on their customers’ accounts is fairly new, and many bank customers don’t understand that their own checks are potentially costing their payee money. I for one would be enraged if I found out my bank was stealing money intended for the person to whom I wrote a check, but that’s just me.

Convenient for when your web server and terminal user must modify the same files, as in the Symfony 2 cache and log directories.

Requires flac command line tool, available at the FLAC home page.

Doctrine uses an ANSI colored formatter for its command line interface by default. The Zend Server CE package for OS X doesn't include the required extensions for outputting this formatted text making the Doctrine CLI unusable. This replacement script works from within a Zend Framework application and correctly registers a compatible non-colored output formatter with the Doctrine CLI. The linux Zend Server CE packages may require this change as well in some configurations.

I've been using this script since last August, and it really comes in handy in at the most random times.

The HTML source code is parsed with a regex replacement which updates the "href" attribute of all links whose URL begins with the base URL, adding the given data to the URL in the form of GET parameters.

Wow, GitHub just got even cooler with this feature. Plus changelog generation and 3 in-the-wild examples of a "topic branch" workflow using the new Compare View.

Gold in yo mouf. HEY GET YOUR PANTS OFF THE GROUND!

Wenbert Del Rosario explores what seems to be the "new way" of defining Zend Framework models. I've abstracted this functionality out into a model base class, and it's eliminated a TON of boilerplate already. When I decide what standard features to use, the base model will be indispensable for my Zend apps in the future.

I finally found a reasonable way to tie form media in to Zend forms. Exciting!

Finally got around to doing this.

I'm seriously considering jumping on this deal. $9.99/month for *unlimited* usenet? You can't beat that.