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First steps with hhvm

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· 3 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

UPDATE (04/2014): Since Facebook decided to remove the webserver functionality from the "official" binaries this howto will not work anymore! Read here how to set things up with the current version of hhvm.

Migrating from Wordpress to Silverstripe

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· 2 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

A couple of weeks ago we relaunched our new website. In addition to that we decided to relaunch our blog as well. Since we wanted to use Silverstripe as CMS for our main website it made sense to use Silverstripe as a basis for our blog as well. Luckily there exists a blog module for Silverstripe which made it pretty easy to set-up this blog. The migration was no-brainer: Export the existing Wordpress content as XML file and import the XML file into Silverstripe via the wordpressimport module. The documentation of the wordpressimport module said it would be enough to add the following RewriteRule to the .htacess file:

ConFoo 2014 conference

· One min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

Vom 24.02.2014 bis zum 28.02.2014 findet in Montreal die ConFoo 2014 Konferenz statt. Ich bin dieses Mal wieder dabei und kann zwei neue Vorträge präsentieren: Im Vortrag "The seven deadly sins of Dependency Injection" möchte ich darstellen welche Fehler man bei der Verwendung des Dependency Injection Patterns nicht machen sollte. Der Vortrag "The Setup: Composer, Phing, Vagrant, Jenkins" beleuchtet unsere Arbeitsweise mit den genannten Tools soll aufzeigen wie man mit den Tools arbeiten kann (aber nicht muss).

Converting physical disk to Virtualbox image

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· 2 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

A couple of days ago my little Linux router died after serving me fine for more than 13 years. Unfortunately, I had not a recent backup at hand so I was in need to get access to the disk. Since I had no "old enough" hardware available, I was looking for a way to convert the physical disk into a Virtualbox image which in the end turned out to be quite easy. All you need to do is to create an image of the physical disk using dd and convert that to a .vdi image file via the VBoxManage tool that is shipped with Virtualbox:

Composer, Bower and HTTP Basic Auth

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· 2 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

A couple of months ago when we set-up our own internal Satis repository to host our custom Composer packages. We ran into an "unpleasant" issue with Composer that had this PR as an result. To sum things up: We are using HTTP Basic Auth to password-project our Satis repository. There was no way we could switch to an SSL client certificate to allow Composer to authenticate itself automatically without asking for a password. Asking for the password on a developer's machine is no big thing, but it since we need an automated Composer run in our Jenkins environment, there was no way to set things up. Unfortunately the PR is not yet merged in master so we were in need to find a different solution. Luckily my friend Joshua Thijssen pointed me to a tool named expect which could solve this issue easily. Expect is a tool that "talks to other interactive programs according to a script." which sounds pretty awesome and yes it is ;)