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PHP and Slots in Gentoo
I had a gut-feeling using slots to quickly switch between different versions of PHP in Gentoo would be straightforward and it was. The only piece of the puzzle that eluded me for a while, in the end, was working out how to tell portage to install a specific version. This is acheieved with an equals sign. As such: (Assuming in this instance 5.2 is already installed.)
Detaching a PHP script from the shell on Ubuntu
I've learnt that detaching a PHP script from the shell and allowing it run as a daemon on Ubuntu is not as simple as I first thought. I couldn't simply add an ampersand like this:
$ php ./script &
PHP Mode for emacs on Mac OS X
It's been a long time since I figured this out and I can't remember what resource I used to help me. Anyway to get PHP Mode working with the native emacs bundled with Mac OS X do the following:
$ mkdir elisp; cd elisp $ wget http://bit.ly/cLqD47