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Recently we started working with Apple Swift language. It’s pretty simple but very power full language. Learning curve is hard – because it’s pretty new language, but from the other hand it’s good – because there is a lot of freshmen questions on StackOverflow and plenty of articles .

Because most of the stuff is related with REST communication with APIs core of my software works with JSON objects. In general we are looking also something for HTTP communication, uploading files and so on.

Installation of go library is pretty simple: go get github.com/garyburd/redigo/redis From time to time, you want to get fresh version of it. If you run that command again it will NOT update the library – because it’s already there. To update it you need to use the -u switch: go get -u github.com/garyburd/redigo/redis

VIPS s a free image processing system (library) – in comparison to similar libraries is super fast, and does not neet much memory. Checkout this speed memory usage . In most cases you can install it by using this handy script:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lovell/sharp/master/preinstall.sh | sudo bash -

In some cases you have to install it from source.

Quick tutorial how to setup proper unit testing with PHPUnit and CodeIgniter 3.0. We need couple elements CodeIgniter – we are working with version 3.0rc3 PHPUnit – latest one If you don’t have phpunit installed globally, you can go with composer, just add section to your composer.json { "require-dev": { "phpunit/phpunit": "4.1.*" } } and then composer.phar install and after while we have ./vendor/bin/phpunit working phpunit. let’s create phpunit.xml.dist next step will require create separate bootstrap file for PHPUnit.

Short Video about Apache Configuration with PHP on OS X Yosemite.

Useful libraries for SWIFT beginners

How update Go library

VIPS on Amazon Linux AMI

PHPUnit and CodeIgniter 3.0

PHP 5.5 and Apache on OS X Yosemite