I recently coded a nice gadget for the admin section of BOINC and I stumbled upon the function file_put_contents(), which is a rather cool substitution for three other functions (fopen(), fwrite() and fclose()). The negative side is that this cool function is only available with PHP5, so you have to provide some sort of wrapper [...]

Assuming you’ve read the entry about ‘How to set-up a BOINC server?‘, here are the next steps to create a BOINC test project. Open a console window and enter the following commands: $ cd ~/boinc_trunk/tools $ ./make_project –test_app test Hint: path to apache2 httpd.conf is /etc/apache2/httpd.conf (You can simply add the file given by make_project.) [...]

Everyone who wants to know whether his appilication works with BOINC distributed computing must ask this question. In addition, I need a working pilot project for myself to test the changes I make to the website. There are plenty of documentations and manuals available already, but most of them are outdated and won’t be updated [...]