Shell tricks (1)

Some shell tricks, most of them interesting for deploying and handling your files:
find files recently modified (say in the last 2 days, -mtime 1):
1find . -type f -daystart -mtime 1
synchronize an entire directory to a remote server (overwrites everything, remote server has to have rsync installed too):
1rsync -avzpog yourdir you@remotebox:/remotedir/
other way around:
1rsync -avzpog you@remotebox:/remotedir/* yourdir/
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The Yii Framework- one to watch

There is a kind of descendant of the PRADO framework in the making, dubbed Yii.
A quote from Charlie Xue, PRADO founder:
Since 2008, the developer team of PRADO has shifted focus to developing Yii. PRADO will continue to be maintained and some features of Yii will be back-ported to PRADO.
As mentioned here, they take and [...]

The Birth of Enterprise PHP

You here and read things like this:
PHP is ready for the enterprise
almost daily the last few months. I have some second thoughts on this: I don’t think PHP is ready for the enterprise right now, in my opinion this was allready the case when PHP 5 was released (2004) and maybe even before that. Yahoo! [...]