Monthly Archives: July 2010

Zend Alternatives

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 29, 2010

When most people think of PHP they think Zend, but did you know that Zend isn’t the only company that makes a PHP engine? There are many competing compilers and interpreters for PHP, each with their own slightly different take on the PHP language. Facebook’s HipHop HipHop takes normal PHP code and transforms it into [...]

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Fixing Git

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 26, 2010

I use git as my version control system for all of my sites. It helps to reduce disk usage by occasionally running git gc. Last night when I went to run git gc on one of my sites, I received a message I had never seen before telling me that my git repo was corrupt. [...]

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DoS using a single client

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 23, 2010

Have you ever heard of Slowloris? It has been around for a little over a year, but fortunately I have never had the “pleasure” of dealing with it. This short Perl script (less than 350 lines of actual code) is capable of turning your lowly desktop computer into a server killing monster. Traditional denial of [...]

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meld > diff

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 22, 2010

I recently was assigned a task at work that required finding the differences between one directory full of configuration files and another directory full of configuration files. Normally I’d use diff to look at the differences between the files, and figure out what has changed. With a directory of over 100 files, this wasn’t really [...]

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All The Domains in the World

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 15, 2010

After waiting months I’ve finally been given access to the .com TLD zone file! (And the .net, but who cares about .net, right?) So what is a zone file, you ask? Basically this file keeps track of how to access every .com domain name in the entire world. Well, technically not all of them, just [...]

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