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• Mike Milano | Articles, code snippets, and brain dumps by Mike Milano

  I needed a tool which would create snapshots and remove them based on a per-volume retention period. There's plenty of scripts out there but I found nothing ideal, so I decided to write a utility from...

• Function Tracing with XDebug | Mike Milano

  /var/tmp. The file name will begin with the word trace. You will need to run a page with the trace code on once to find it. The default configuration is set to append the file with each run, but you ...

• Easily spin up Solr instances with Docker | Mike Milano

  Posted: September 7, 2013 It can be a pain for developers to setup a Solr instance for local development. Beyond the setup, there's the possibility for differences in configurations and v...

• Consuming REST services with AngularJS | Mike Milano

  If you run your app, you should now see a list of issues. Note: If running the app locally, you will need to disable browser security. On Mac OS X, close Chrome completely and run this from the termi...

• AngularJS: Managing active nav elements | Mike Milano

  Posted: July 26, 2013 The header and footer of an application are typically outside the scope of the content or controller you're working on. This makes managing the navigation state a li...

• Analyze Your Solr Index on Pantheon | Mike Milano

  Posted: October 14, 2013 Ever curious about what exactly is getting indexed in Solr? Drupal abstracts Solr to a point where it can be difficult to understand how Solr is queried directly....