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When unique isn’t really unique
24 Nov 2009Sometimes, an auto-generated number isn’t enough and what you really need is a unique identifier. Several people have different techniques for generating their unique identifiers. My favorite has been generating a random number and then hashing it through the md5 hash generator. Here’s an example I was once using: <?php $unique_identifier = md5(rand(100000, 999999)); ?> [...]
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Using git hooks to check syntax errors
25 Sep 2009Git is currently my favorite source code versioning tool and while I used Subversion, I knew about something called hooks that I never used. Essentially, hooks allow you to execute custom scripts when you perform certain actions on your repository like committing files, pulling updates and so on. This is a very useful as you [...]
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