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David
Strauss

Co-Founder and Web Chef Emeritus

David Strauss

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By David Strauss

Drop that cron! Use Hudson instead

For years, I used cron (sometimes anacron) without asking questions. The method was simple enough, and every project requiring cron-related capabilities documented the setup. There is a much better way, and it involves Hudson.

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Initial impressions of HipHop PHP and porting Pressflow

I spent most of the weekend porting Pressflow to HipHop PHP. Josh Koenig from Chapter Three was also kind enough to spend much of his Saturday working with me. Pressflow doesn't quite run on HipHop yet, but we're working on it. Building HipHop PHP and Pressflow Getting a good build of HipHop was quite a challenge. However, if you're on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10, you just have to follow our build instructions.

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