As I was poking around the Packagist website this morning I found that Stash has reached 40k downloads through composer! What’s really exciting is that 2,135 of those downloads were just in the last 10 days. This is an exciting milestone for me. Stash has been in active development since 2009, but was only moved to…
Building an Email Testing Environment with Vagrant, Dovecot and Travis-CI
In my previous post I introduced the testing suite I created for Fetch. Here I want to go through exactly what needed to be done to put that together. This post is a bit longer, and you really don’t need it to take advantage of this package, but it may provide some insight to anyone…
Announcing a New Continuous Integration and Email Package using Travis-CI and Vagrant
Years ago I wrote a library, Fetch, which was designed to read email using the PHP IMAP Extension. At the time I did not expect it to get much reuse so I skipped out on much of the test suite- if I’m going to be perfectly honest here though I have to admit that a…
WordPress Syntax Highlighting for YAML
I was writing up a new blog post that had some Yaml config files in them. I’ve been using the Syntaxhighlighter Evolved plugin for this, which has worked remarkably well. Unfortunately it seems that Yaml is not one of the supported languages, and I couldn’t find much about it. Luckily for me the author wrote…
PHP IMAP Script
As part of maintaining Fetch I have to install the php imap extension quite a bit. Although this is pretty trivial on most variants of linux it’s kind of a pain for OSX- you have to find a few dependancies, compile the imap c library from source, create the extension against your currently installed version of…
Planning to Go Down, HTTP Edition
Whether it’s from a planned upgrade or a blown RAID, your site is going to go down eventually. This was brought to light for a lot of people by a recent outage on Hacker News- an outage that was made worse by HN responding with 200 Status Codes. During the subsequent discussion I posted a…