Home scanners have not fully caught up with their drivers and support for Linux. For years, the Linux community had to rely on hacks and solutions offered by the open source community, so that scanners can work reliably on Linux environments. Luckily, more and more companies are offering Linux drivers for their scanners, but there is still work to be done.

Code coverage is a very informative feature of testing. For PHP, PHPUnit offers functionality to run tests as well as gather coverage statistics.

Quite some time ago, I had the brilliant idea to visualize the commits in the Phalcon repository.

Recently I have put some effort in organizing some of our video files. These are mostly home movies, kids doing stuff, places we visited etc.

Sometimes, it is necessary to retrieve a full static copy of a website (hopefully one you own). There are tools that help you do this such as httrack.