Secret Ninja

A Collection of Markdown files containing useful links and information related to web development with a strong focus on php.

Misc

http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-big-and-little-endian-byte-order/

SSL

• http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TRM/GC32-1323-00/en_US/HTML/handshak.gif Basics of SSL handshake

DNS

• Authoritative vs Recursive DNS Servers - http://www.noip.com/blog/2013/11/22/authoritative-dns-vs-recursive-dns-work/

HDD

Random vs Sequential IO

• http://www.violin-memory.com/blog/understanding-io-random-vs-sequential/

Understanding HDD workings

• http://www.overclockers.com/hard-drives-explained/

Http Header Statusses

• http://www.emanueleminotto.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/http-headers-status1.png

HTTP Caches

• http://tomayko.com/writings/things-caches-do

General Sql

• 10 easy steps to a complete understanding of sql http://tech.pro/tutorial/1555/10-easy-steps-to-a-complete-understanding-of-sql

Virtualization

• Memory efficient VMs in Ubuntu https://coderwall.com/p/a56j3w

Frontend Performance

• http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/front-end-performance-for-web-designers-and-front-end-developers/

Ubuntu

Security

• http://plusbryan.com/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essential-security-for-linux-servers

Message of the day

• http://www.howtogeek.com/104708/how-to-customize-ubuntus-message-of-the-day/

Monitoring/ Troubleshooting

• http://aarvik.dk/linux-monitoring-tools-suggestions-from-hacker-news/ - Linux monitoring tools suggestions from hacker news

Web Application Security

• http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/netsparker/ Netsparker
• http://www.openvas.org/ OpenVAS
• http://w3af.org/ W3af

Logstash

• http://semicomplete.com/presentations/logstash-scale11x/#/1 - Scaling Logging
• http://kibana.org/intro.html - Kibana UI for logstash
• http://jablonskis.org/2013/elasticsearch-and-logstash-tuning/

Custom Terminal Prompt

• http://mediadoneright.com/content/ultimate-git-ps1-bash-prompt

PHP, Apache2 and PHP-FPM

Running php with apache over fastcgi using php-fpm

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10678542/php5-fpm-children-and-requests
• https://alexcabal.com/installing-apache-mod_fastcgi-php-fpm-on-ubuntu-server-maverick/
• http://whocares.de/fastcgiexternalserver-demystified/all/1/
• http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/5/19/configuring-the-apache-mpm-on-ubuntu Configuring the apache mpm on ubuntu
• http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/5/19/apache-configuration-on-ubuntu-part-1
• http://articles.slicehost.com/2010/5/19/apache-configuration-on-ubuntu-part-2

Apache

• http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/188 - Basic tweaking

Python

• http://www.diveintopython.net/toc/index.html
• http://www.toptal.com/python/why-are-there-so-many-pythons#!

Montoring and Metrics

• http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/
• http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/12/08/track-every-release/
• http://www.slideshare.net/postwait/monitoring-and-observability

Chef

• http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+on+Debian+or+Ubuntu+using+Packages Installing chef via apt-get
• http://vagrantup.com/v1/docs/provisioners/chef_solo.html Testing Chef recipes with vagrant
• http://acrmp.github.com/foodcritic/ A lint tool for your Opscode Chef cookbooks.

Git

• http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-the-Server - Setting up a basic git server with ssh access

Ruby

• http://guides.rubygems.org/make-your-own-gem/ - Creating a Ruby gem

MySQL

• http://www.tokutek.com/ - High Performance, Scalable alternative to Innodb engine.
• http://komlenic.com/244/8-reasons-why-mysqls-enum-data-type-is-evil/ - 8 Reasons Why mysql enum data type is evil
• http://www.jonathanlevin.co.uk/2012/04/mastering-mysql-indexing.html - Mastering mysql indexing (nice examples of using percona toolkit for analyzing query behaviour)
• http://www.dbasquare.com/2012/04/04/how-important-a-primary-key-can-be-for-mysql-performance/ - How important a primary key can be for mysql performance

MySQL and NoSql alternatives

• http://www.memsql.com/

Mobile Web

Frameworks

• http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/features/ - Sencha Touch
• http://jquerymobile.com/ - jQuery Mobile

Databas Versioning

• http://www.liquibase.org/ - Liquibase

Hubot

• http://chanux.posterous.com/installing-githubs-hubot-on-ubuntu - Installing hubot on ubuntu

Node js

• https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation - How to install

Samba Share On Linux

• http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-samba-server-on-ubuntu/ - Install a samba server on Ubuntu

AWS

• http://wblinks.com/notes/aws-tips-i-wish-id-known-before-i-started/ - AWS tips I wish I'd known before I started
• http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/GettingStartedGuide/Welcome.html?r=3947 - Getting Started
• http://aws.amazon.com/free/ - Free EC2 tier
• http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/gettingstarted/latest/awsgsg-freetier/deploy-sample-app.html - Sample application and deployment

CI and PHP

• http://jenkins-php.org/ - Jenkins PHP Template
• http://travis-ci.org/ - For opensource projects on github
• http://www.devopsy.com/blog/2012/01/20/continuous-deployment-to-heroku-with-jenkins/ - Jenkins with heroku deployment
• http://about.travis-ci.org/blog/announcing-pull-request-support/ - Travisbot supports PRs
• https://github.com/github/janky - Github, Hubot and Jenkins integration opensourced by Github.
• http://markunsworth.com/2012/02/11/setting-up-a-jenkins-build-server-on-ec2/ - Running Jenkins on Amazon EC2
• http://abhirama.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/apache-mod_proxy-in-ubuntu/
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Installing+Jenkins+on+Ubuntu

Heroku

Php on Heroku

• http://hakre.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/php-on-heroku-again/
• https://github.com/winglian/Heroku-PHP/tree/master/conf

Composer support

Using Composer in heroku ing custom build packs:

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks
• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpack-api
• http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/using_composer_to_manage_dependencies_in_heroku_php_apps/

Might be able to use custom build pack to set the webroot directory to */public for zf2 applications: Fork https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-php and change settings. (Would be awesome to have composer support as well.)

Composer code for buildpack:

• https://github.com/bergie/heroku-buildpack-php/blob/master/bin/compile#L49

Php Benchmarking

• http://www.phpbench.com/

Nginx

• http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/11/a-faster-web-server-ripping-out-apache-for-nginx/ (be sure to note the over friendly php error)
• http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Pass_Non-PHP_Requests_to_PHP.

Capistrano

Introduction and Tutorials

• http://guides.beanstalkapp.com/deployments/deploy-with-capistrano.html
• https://help.github.com/articles/deploying-with-capistrano

Cleaning Logs and Strucuture

• http://jondavidjohn.com/blog/2012/04/cleaning-up-capistrano-deployment-output
• http://guides.beanstalkapp.com/deployments/deploy-with-capistrano.html

Excepting parameters

• http://archives.ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/6/22/using-command-line-parameters-w-rake-and-capistrano
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/capistrano/BYklL6-QMOc%5B1-25%5D

Usefull Reading

• http://www.claytonlz.com/2008/08/php-deployment-with-capistrano/
• http://capitate.rubyforge.org/recipes/deploy.html
• Wiki page https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki
• Release paths https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/capistrano/TKoy4it9w-c
• http://brighternet.com/articles/deploying-static-sites-with-capistrano/

Github stuff

• https://github.com/blog/470-deployment-script-spring-cleaning
• http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html Github Workflow.

ZF 2

• http://framework.zend.com/zf2
• http://akrabat.com/
• http://blog.evan.pro/
• http://mwop.net/blog.html
• http://ralphschindler.com/
• http://modules.zendframework.com/

Configuration

• http://www.spiffyjr.me/2012/06/17/how-does-configuration-work-in-zf2/

JSON ViewStrategy

• http://akrabat.com/zend-framework-2/returning-json-from-a-zf2-controller-action/

Example Applications

• https://github.com/akrabat
• https://github.com/akrabat/ZF2TestApp

Event Manager

• http://akrabat.com/zend-framework-2/an-introduction-to-zendeventmanager/
• http://mwop.net/blog/266-Using-the-ZF2-EventManager.html

DIC

• http://ocramius.github.com/blog/zend-framework-2-controllers-and-dependency-injection-with-zend-di/

Exception- and Errors handling in Php

• http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV2/Proposal+for+Exceptions+in+ZF2
• http://www.php.net/manual/en/spl.exceptions.php
• http://mwop.net/blog/on-error-handling-and-closures.html

Mocking and PHPUnit

• http://www.slideshare.net/sebastian_bergmann/phpunit-best-practices

Stubbing/Mocking Hardcoded Dependancies

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2031385/phpunit-stub-methods-undefined
• http://sebastian-bergmann.de/archives/885-Stubbing-Hard-Coded-Dependencies.html

GWT

• http://code.google.com/p/gwt-platform/wiki/GettingStarted#Browsing_the_Javadoc
• http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/2012/06/11/7-tips-for-exception-handling-in-gwt/ Exception Handling.

Compiling

• https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideCompilingAndDebugging#DevGuideCompilerOptions - Compiling from command line

How to handle sessions in GWT(P)

• http://zawoad.blogspot.com/2009/12/session-management-set-and-get-data.html
• http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit-incubator/wiki/LoginSecurityFAQ
• http://code.google.com/p/gwtsecurity/wiki/designConsideration
• http://varuntayur.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/session-management-in-gwt/

RESTful Service in GWT

• http://blog.furiousbob.com/2011/03/27/putting-your-gwt-service-to-rest/
• http://restygwt.fusesource.org/documentation/restygwt-user-guide.html

Cross Browser Testing Tools

• https://browserlab.adobe.com/en-us/index.html
• https://browserlab.adobe.com/
• http://www.browserstack.com/

Apache

Ant

• http://ant.apache.org/
• http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorial-writing-tasks.html
• http://ant.apache.org/manual/develop.html
• http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorial-tasks-filesets-properties.html
• http://ant.apache.org/manual/tutorial-tasks-filesets-properties.html

Modules

• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_cache.html
• http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/module.html
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_expires.html

Apache as a Proxy

• http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_3092521_3/Configuring-Apache-20-as-a-Forward-Proxy-Server.htm

PHP Tools

• http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/20/50-extremely-useful-php-tools/
• http://manual.phpdoc.org/HTMLframesConverter/default/phpDocumentor/tutorial_phpDocumentor.howto.pkg.html#basics.docblock
• http://devzone.zend.com/article/2803-Introducing-xdebug
• http://www.phpsrc.org/projects/pti-php-codesniffer/wiki/
• http://phpmd.org/download/index.html

Mongo db

• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets+-+Voting
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Set+Commands
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets+-+Oplog
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Capped+Collections
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Set+Tutorial
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets+-+Basics
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replica+Sets+-+Priority
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Adding+an+Arbiter
• http://blog.engineering.kiip.me/post/20988881092/a-year-with-mongodb
• http://devzone.zend.com/1730/getting-started-with-mongodb-and-php/
• http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Nosql_Mongo+-+Valentin+Golev

Schema Design

• http://blog.mongodb.org/post/29140593886/designing-mongodb-schemas-with-embedded-non-embedded
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Schema+Design

Automated/Continuous Deployment

• https://github.com/leehambley/railsless-deploy/
• http://hivelogic.com/articles/deploying-expressionengine-github-capistrano/
• http://mathew-davies.co.uk/2009/10/28/php-deployment.html
• https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki
• https://github.com/namics/capistrano-php/blob/master/lib/capistrano/php.rb
• http://www.davegardner.me.uk/blog/2012/02/13/php-deployment-with-capistrano/
• http://tfountain.co.uk/blog/2009/5/11/zend-framework-capistrano-deployment
• http://www.davegardner.me.uk/blog/2012/02/13/php-deployment-with-capistrano/
• https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/
• holman/ama#38
• https://github.com/blog/470-deployment-script-spring-cleaning

Database migration

• https://github.com/ruckus/ruckusing-migrations
• https://github.com/nickinuse/php-migrations
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3324571/is-there-a-php-equivalent-of-rails-migrations

Feature branches

• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.html

Restful Webservices

• Principals for standardized Rest Authentication http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/12/principles-for-standardized-rest-authentication.html

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-restful/

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/630453/put-vs-post-in-rest

• http://jacwright.com/250/simple-rest-server-in-php-supports-json-amf/

• http://devzone.zend.com/1590/create-restful-server-application-using-the-zend-framework/

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2081894/handling-put-delete-arguments-in-php

• http://www.recessframework.org/page/towards-restful-php-5-basic-tips

• http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.htm

• http://developer.github.com/v3/

• http://www.packetizer.com/ws/rest.html

• http://mwop.net/blog/233-Responding-to-Different-Content-Types-in-RESTful-ZF-Apps.html

• http://odino.org/rest-better-http-cache/

• http://restpatterns.org/HTTP_Status_Codes

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2342579/http-status-code-for-update-and-delete

• http://www.springsource.org/spring-data/mongodb

• http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api?hn

• http://vimeo.com/20781278#at=0 The Rest of Rest.

Installing PHP 5.4 on Ubuntu

• http://chemicaloliver.net/internet/installing-php-5-4-in-ubuntu/

PHPCS pre-commit hooke on git for PSR standards in PHP

• http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer/redirected
• https://github.com/klaussilveira/phpcs-psr
• https://github.com/s0enke/git-hooks/tree/master/phpcs-pre-commit

ZF2 and Restful Webservices

• Introduction to proper rest full implementation: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-restful/
• ZF2 Restfull Controller Documentation: http://packages.zendframework.com/docs/latest/manual/en/zend.mvc.controllers.html#zend.mvc.controllers.interfaces
• Routing will be VERY important, ZF2 routing documentation: http://packages.zendframework.com/docs/latest/manual/en/zend.mvc.routing.html
• Some thoughts on exposing web services via ZF1 : http://mwop.net/blog/227-Exposing-Service-APIs-via-Zend-Framework
• Building Rest services using ZF1: http://mwop.net/blog/228-Building-RESTful-Services-with-Zend-Framework
• Using Zend to handle and respond in different contexts: http://mwop.net/blog/233-Responding-to-Different-Content-Types-in-RESTful-ZF-Apps
• Link to ZF1 XML RPC Server, might be usefull: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.xmlrpc.server.html
• Link to ZF1 JSON RPC Server, might be usefull: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.json.server.html
• Reading of Accept Content type and setting headers for response: http://packages.zendframework.com/docs/latest/manual/en/zend.http.html#zend.http.overview.request-response-and-headers
• Look at overriding of verbs on: http://dev.agilezen.com/concepts/overview.html

Programatically creating Word Documents

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/124959/create-word-document-using-php-in-linux

Service Registrars and service discovery

• http://progrium.com/blog/2014/07/29/understanding-modern-service-discovery-with-docker/
• http://progrium.com/blog/2014/08/20/consul-service-discovery-with-docker/
• http://progrium.com/blog/2014/09/10/automatic-docker-service-announcement-with-registrator/
• https://github.com/coreos/etcd
• https://coreos.com/blog/docker-dynamic-ambassador-powered-by-etcd/
• http://nerds.airbnb.com/smartstack-service-discovery-cloud
• https://github.com/progrium/registrator/blob/master/bridge.go
• https://github.com/crosbymichael/skydock