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What’s New in VirtualBox 3.1.x
VirtualBox is Sun’s (soon to be Oracle’s) virtual machine emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It’s an excellent piece of software that I’ve raved about before.Despite competition from Windows 7...
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How to Use Branched Snapshots in VirtualBox
VirtualBox has supported virtual machine (VM) snapshots for a while. However, until version 3.1, it was only possible to revert back to a previous state which destroyed snapshots lower in the...
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How to Use Hyper-V Virtual Machines
Hyper-V is a native hardware-assisted virtualization platform provided in Windows 8 Pro and Windows Server 2008 R2 and above. In essence, a Virtual Machine is a PC emulation running on your PC. You...
View ArticleHow to Create and Share a Vagrant Base Box
Interesting tools are emerging each day of the year, helping developers work faster, keeping them focused on the actual business values of the project. One such tool is Vagrant, which is becoming one...
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Vagrantfile Explained: Setting Up and Provisioning with Shell
In the first part of this article, we showed you how to create a Vagrant base box, installing the latest Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in the virtual machine to use it as the guest operating system. In this part...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Install Zend Server 7 on an Ubuntu 14.04 Vagrant Box
I recently took a look at Zend Server 7, the latest version of the powerful application monitor/manager suite. This quick tip will show you how to get it installed on a Vagrant box so you too can...
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Using Chassis for WordPress Development
When I wrote the first article on WordPress and Vagrant I introduced WordPress VVV. VVV is a Vagrant configuration for developing WordPress themes and contributing to the core. One common problem,...
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PHP7 Resource Recap
PHP 7 is well on its way. RFCs are being implemented and polished, projects are being tested, libraries upgraded. Extensions are being modified, and the word is spreading. All that remains is getting...
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Containerized PHP Development Environments with Vagga
It happens to all of us once in a while. We clone a project, and then we try to run it. However, something doesn’t work. It may be our version of NGINX or Apache. It might be that npm isn’t doing...
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Hashicorp’s Packer – Is It Something for PHP Developers?
tl;dr; - Is Packer a tool you'll need in your tool box as a PHP developer? It depends. If you do a lot of server work for your clients or on the job, along with development work, then yes. Packer can...
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