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Burn exif meta data to photos

People always ask me "what were your camera settings for that photo", so I wrote some bash functions to burn the relevant data to the bottom of the image. The following bash functions assume a few things: you are on a Mac or Linux systemYou know how to modify your

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Netcat Tar Pipe

Lets face it, sometimes we need to move massive amounts of data between servers. wouldn't it be great if it wasn't so darn slow? In some cases rsync would do the job just fine, but it gets slowed down when it has to do checksum checks before and after a

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Apache Multi Instance & Simultaneous PHP Versions

There are plenty of reasons you might want to use multiple versions of PHP on a server. In my case I needed to set up a staging server that will be used to demo various websites and web apps that have different PHP requirements. The following diagram shows the flow

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Omnibus GitLab and additional Nginx virtual hosts

So you have a beast of a machine running GitLab and your like, "Man I feel like this thing could probably host some static websites too". Well, you're in luck. The following procedures will have you running additional virtual hosts with the nginx server that is installed with

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Delete LetsEncrypt Certificate from chain

Ok, so LetsEncrypt is awesome but it has one MAJOR pitfall as of version 0.4.1-1 on Ubuntu, there is no delete option for the cli. There is however a workaround that will allow you to remove the domain from the cert renewal process and the chain. sudo rm

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jQuery animated skill bars for your web resume

To see a working example of the skill bars. Go to Example The HTML Use the following html where you would like to have a skill bar section added.  <a href="javascript:void(0)" class=

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Search for files using google

Searching the Internet for downloadable content is pretty easy since there are a lot of people out there hosting "files" for their personal use. What they don't know/don't care about is that google is indexing their public apache or nginx webroot. We can easily search for the

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Help me \Rhonda

Let's face it. We can all use a little help sometimes. Rhonda Helper was born out of a desire to write less code when developing with PHP. It addresses some common issues and tasks that need to be accomplished when developing in PHP. Check out the Rhonda Helper documentation for

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Google places jQuery plugin

Getting reviews onto your website shouldn't be difficult. I made the Google places jQuery plugin to give a quick path to showing some reviews on a website based on the google place ID. Install it with bower $ bower install google-places Check out the documentation for more details google places plugin

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Website benchmarking with ApacheBench

I was recently introduced to a tool to help with my web development by giving me some benchmark results. This will allow you to emulate multiple users accessing your site and to verify that the load times are acceptable. ApacheBench, which is bundled with the standard distribution of Apache will