Today I learned

[dalecosp]

On a somewhat related note: Today I was attempting to use some CLI tools I've written on a web page, calling exec(), or shell_exec(), or using backticks, or whatever. Some of them worked, and some didn't.

After a good deal of head scratching, the problem became apparent. The failing tools were calling PHP or Python via env, thus:

#!/usr/bin/env python2
# Python code here

Since the Apache server doesn't have many environment vars to speak of, PHP couldn't find python2 (or even the CLI version of itself) if it was called with env. The quickest fix was to modify the tools to use /usr/local/bin/python2 or /usr/local/bin/php directly:

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
<?php
// do PHP stuff

[cluelessPHP]

Today I learned gmagick is not the same as imagick

[cluelessPHP]

So I woke up early and I'm sitting looking through reddit

Today I learned Americans like biscuits and gravy, is that actually true?...

[Weedpacket]

cluelessPHP
American biscuits are more like savoury scones. I guess they soak up the gravy. I use dumplings for that myself.

[cluelessPHP]

Weedpacket Ahhh I was thinking along the lines of McVities or something lol

[NogDog]

Weedpacket
Also...

• British biscuits == American cookies
• British crisps == American chips
  🙂

[cluelessPHP]

NogDog Our chips are thicker (judging by McDonalds at least)

[NogDog]

cluelessPHP
Oh, that's another one:
British chips ~= American (French) fries, though "steak fries" probably are closer in terms of size?

[cluelessPHP]

NogDog a little smaller we have steak chips/fries too, I guess in the middle sort of range

My brother's over there he keeps telling me to go over but I'd die lol

[cluelessPHP]

Today I learned I might be getting funding from UK gov to keep working on my little site

[dalecosp]

I hope your funding goes well. I'm learning about meetings, budgets and capital improvement plans, as well as a little more Microsoftie things these days.

American "French Fries" are an interesting story. They came from Belgium instead of France. And we have "steak fries", large and flat, a couple or three different sizes of "french fries", including very small ones often called "shoestring potatoes", a la Freddy's in the South/West or Steak 'n Shake, as I recall. McDonald's are fairly small compared to some but much larger than shoestring fries.; I remember when Braum's stores had larger ones and went to a smaller size more like McDonald's, although both of their styles have been "crinkle cut". Wendy's does about the same size as McDonald's but "natural", which means they don't peel the potatoes before they cut the fries. And then there's "curly" fires, which look like they sound but are some in some places battered and fried, so you get that doubled-up-coronary-infarction goodness!

[cluelessPHP]

dalecosp thanks 🙂

Just working on it more now, it let's you add home screen buttons to your android and iPhone now, feel free to join up and review it or give suggestions lol

Belgium is an odd country, the history is all over the place

[Weedpacket]

cluelessPHP B*****m is an odd country

You mind your language!

[cluelessPHP]

Weedpacket I will when they figure out what one they are going to use lol, as one of their politicians once said "the only thing holding the country together is beer and football"

[Weedpacket]

TIL that while PCRE has conditional subpatterns ((?(expr1)expr2), which tries to match expr2 only if expr1 matches), it also has a built-in ?(DEFINE) condition that always fails to match (unless you've named a subpattern DEFINE somewhere).

Sounds useless? With it you have a place to stuff named subpatterns for later re-use without having to have them match something in your string; in the "real" pattern you can then refer to a subpattern by name without having to clutter up the expression by its definition.

From the pcre documentation:
/ (?(DEFINE) (?<byte> 2[0-4]\d | 25[0-5] | 1\d\d | [1-9]?\d) )
\b (?&byte) (\.(?&byte)){3} \b
/x

That matches ipv4 address dot-quads. The "real" pattern is the bit between the \b boundaries; the first line doesn't match anything but creates the byte subpattern that gets used later.

Basically we're talking subexpressions as macros.

This is going to make this parser I'm writing here a lot more legible...

[NogDog]

Weedpacket

PCRE is like it's own (very terse) programming language. 🙂

[cluelessPHP]

Today I learnt to integrate Facebook and Google logins onto my site

[cluelessPHP]

Today I learned from Reddit In the US it is customary (if not required) to send a "thank you for taking the time to speak with me" email after interviewing via phone or in person.

[cluelessPHP]

Today I learned how to set up daily emails and use Putty (kind of use Putty)

[cluelessPHP]

Today I learned you need to use safe thread for Apache