I looked far and wide, and found no combination of configuration that actually worked. I finally managed to get everything working so I’m sharing it here just in case it’s useful to you. If it works, your welcome, if it doesn’t please share and I’ll update this info.

Update added July 10/2015 We use an in-house deployment script that uses symbolic links to atomically update our PHP based web applications. Our stack had some changes that lead to a confounding headache where PHP was not using code from the latest deploy. As it turns out this was a…

Quick start guide for speeding up sites using Varnish. — Ian Turgeon My first adventure with Varnish required a great deal of research and head scratching. Here’s the first in a series of guides for fellow adventurers (not dummies) who need to wrap their head around working with Varnish. Install This was the easy bit, it was dead simple to install…

Associating syntaxes with files that don’t have extensions — Sublime Text lets you associate file extensions with certain syntax highlighters, but it isn’t obvious how to deal with files that don’t have file extensions. I found two (UPDATE: three) ways, here they are: Edit the Associated Language File From the menu, select Preferences >> Browse Packages. Open the language file: Ruby/Ruby.tmLanguage (or any other…

Naming software is hard. — We get asked about the name of Obojobo quite a bit. I’ll admit, it’s pretty strange. The story isn’t particular interesting either, which I regret every time I have to explain it. Not because I feel it needs an epic back story, but rather because people really want to hear…