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

1. CodeIgniter – we are working with version 3.0rc3
2. 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. Just copy cp index.php tests/Bootstrap.php
We have to make 2 small amends.

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

It’s my third post in “alternatives” series – this time i looked for something nicer then Angular . Apparently Angular went the same path like all good and slim solutions. It’s getting slower and bigger. With this type of framework we have at least couple of options: