repetitive tasks

PHPmaster.com has a new introductory tutorial for those just starting out with PHP (or with programming really) talking about using looping structures for sets of data - for, while/do-while and foreach.

Creating shell scripts is the lazy (smart) system administrator's way to automate and build intelligence into repetitive tasks. Continue reading →

On the ServerGrove blog there's a recent post looking at an interesting combination of technologies that could allow you to deploy your Symfony applications easier and more quickly - Capifony (Symfony+Git+Capistrano).

New from the Nefarious Designs blog today is a comprehensive post on using make to create automated website builds.

He looks specifically at how to manage and build the Javascript and CSS portions of a site (but parts of it could be applied to just about any files you might want to automate).

Technology Floss: "I didn't want to spend the next month checking each compressed file to see if my target file was there. So I made a one-liner that did the whole thing for me."