Monthly Archives: April 2013

Change file time on Linux or Mac OS X

Changing the date of a file under Linux or Mac OS X can be quite a challenge. As far as I know both do not provide a UI (User Interface) option to do this out of the box, but what both operating systems do provide are the tools needed to do it in the console. I wanna show how … Continue reading

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Why is my Symfony 2 app crashing with an out of memory error?

I’ve recently run into an issue where a data-processing task in a Symfony app would crash with a PHP ‘Out of memory’ fatal error. The task in question was using Doctrine to retrieve some rows from the database, updating some … Continue reading

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