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Last week I wrote a little post and script to archive a directory. This can be really helpful if you're looking to backup some legacy code, especially a deeply nested old website, but what if the files only live online? How do you reach out to the internets and archive (scrape) a front-end?
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Recursively tracing out a full directory and saving the files in an archive seemed like a fairly easy thing to do. After all, I knew how to glob() and was reasonably sure that the environment I was working in had the ZIP extension built into the PHP. But wait... Recursion? glob() does not handle…
One thing that you can do on the internet is to endorse people on Linkedin. You just visit one of your connection's profiles on the site and pick some skills pulled from their profile (and/or add new ones) and endorse them. This is a great way that you can 'validate' listed skills and give out…