I decided to release this code snip, just a PHP class, for extracting data from an HTML page. The code is in https://github.com/danielecr/verygrabber and the packagist can be installed by composer install smartango/verygrabber rif. https://packagist.org/packages/smartango/verygrabber This is an old snippet to define a grabber by XPath deploying the recursive nature of DOM (Document Object Model) […]
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My blog does not use cookies
My idea concerns was to limit the maintenance work to the minimum, still being effective. But which alternatives are available? No analytics ✅ Legal Perspective (EU / GDPR / ePrivacy) Not using tracking tools like Google Analytics can indeed help you avoid needing a cookie consent popup, if: 1. You don’t store or access any […]
Dive into (useless?) uncovered case of multistage dockerfile
Looking at the upstream documentation of Multi-stage builds there are some examples but this is missing: Ok, I mean, the example by itself is useless, but “it works”. Try: docker build -f Dockerfile -t copiedfrom-rust:v0.1 . Then: docker run -it copiedfrom-rust:v0.1 sh Real use case scenario Lets get serious now: why? Suppose you are inside […]
Parallelize PHP script … or at least sort of it with curl parallel
PHP is not a parallel capable programming language (someone would argue it is hard to state that PHP is a [anything]-capable programming language at all), but there are area where this could be parallelized some way. And these are the active waiting routine. The ideal scenario for a trival pseudo parallelization is a bundle of […]