If you feel nostalgia or you just need to run an old piece of PHP code here is a Docker image with Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.3 based on Debian Stretch: As this container is aimed for development the UID of the www-data user is set to 1000. The reason being that usually the first…
Month: September 2020
Emulation and virtualization guides
This is an assorted list with guides how to configure various emulators (or virtual machines) and install and configure the respective OS. The host platform is assumed to be Linux/x86_64. UNIX Dell UNIX on x86 (more) Interactive UNIX on x86 Ultrix 4.5 on MIPS Ultrix 4.5 on VAX DEC OSF 1 on MIPS DEC OSF…
A case against “Don’t add unneeded context”
I have seen the “Don’t add unneeded context” in yet one more place and I will put a short case against this. In brief they say – this is bad: And this is good: I say the “unneeded context” which In this case I will call a prefix should stay specially on ActiveRecord classes because:…