by Kevin Schroeder | 5:36 pm

(Almost) stupid easy PHP integration with Active Directory on Azure

One of the things that I’m doing is looking around at integrations and integration management. As a Linux-based PHP developer I have had a cloudy view of much of the Microsoft server world. I

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by Kevin Schroeder | 12:03 pm

How to work remotely

The ineffable, omnipresent Kalen Jordan (at least according to my Twitter feed) recently posted a Medium article on working remotely where he stated I took the cake for the longest tenure of working remotely

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by Kevin Schroeder | 4:36 pm

How to handle configuration in PHP

(This post is copied from the Magium site) Configuration management hasn’t changed much in PHP for, oh, the last 20 years or so. Basically, all of its life. Configuration file format has changed in

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by Kevin Schroeder | 1:04 pm

I created a super simple SQS to HTTP worker in node.js queue for PHP

Node.js SQS to HTTP worker/daemon/background process Welcome to this silly little utility program. It provides an intermediary link between an SQS message queue and a backend HTTP system. It is very simple. All you

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by Kevin Schroeder | 4:56 pm

I created a super simple SQS to FastCGI broker for a worker queue in PHP

Node.js SQS to FastCGI worker/daemon/background process Welcome to this silly little utility program. It provides an intermediary link between an SQS message queue and a backend FastCGI system. It is very simple. All you

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by Kevin Schroeder | 9:07 am

Really slow git on Windows (aka Windows Antimalware service executable is making it slow)

I was trying to do a git pull from GitHub this morning from the windows CLI (actually, Cygwin xterm) and it was horribly slow.  Most of the time I just CTRL-C out of it and

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by Kevin Schroeder | 5:43 pm

What is your foster/adopt story?

A year or two ago I wrote a blog post on what it is like to be a foster parent.  Given that this is a technical blog that post has surprised me quite a bit.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 11:11 am

Why MySQL is not a queue

I tweeted something a few days ago about queues and MySQL. MySQL is not a data queue. MySQL is not a data queue. MySQL is not a data queue. MySQL is not a data queue.

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by Kevin Schroeder | 6:08 am

Running Selenium server as a CentOS systemd service

… is very easy to do. You need two things.  1) Xvfb for the virtual screen, 2) systemd.  (And the Selenium Server binary, of course) First Xvfb 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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by Kevin Schroeder | 10:30 am

What’s wrong with the sound in movies

My wife and I saw the new Star Trek movie in Imax 3D last night.  It wasn’t too bad.  She complained about it being too loud (fuddy duddy) whereas I was impressed with the

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