Status of specific brew service

Switching between various development environments, to save restart time, I wanted to start various services from OS/X only if they were not already running. Brew does not have a method to know whether a particular service is running (AFAIK), so the following example code parses the list of services returned by brew services list and …

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PHP – switch statement vs. function dispatching

When you start having too many cases in your switch statement, it might be worth looking into using a function lookup. This is possible in all languages where functions are first class citizens… <?php $post = "hello"; $info = "3.1415"; //———————————————————– // Version 1 – using a switch statement //———————————————————– switch ($post) {     …

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Virtual Box – Shared folders on Ubuntu Guest

Well, the first thing to make sure is that Guest Additions are correctly installed. For example, on Ubuntu 16.04 guest on VirtualBox 5.0.32 r112930 I received a message that the kernel headers were not found (even though they did exist). This was fixed with: sudo apt-get install dkms Next problem was constantly receiving a protocol …

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