Monthly Archives: July 2014

Using the Symfony Validator as a standalone component

It’s easy to think of Symfony as just being a huge full-stack PHP framework, that you either base your entire project around or ignore completely, but in fact, the individual Symfony components can be surprisingly easy to slot into an existing project. This … Continue reading

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Show installed yum packages by size

When you pay for every GB of disc space on your server as it is with an Amazon EC2 instance, you want to make sure that the installed packages are at a minimum. Besides the actual user data, you can as well try to remove packages you don’t need but have been installed for some reasons. Here is how to find the biggest installed packages. Continue reading

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