For the day job, I maintain four custom PHP apps in addition to several Drupal sites. Up until a couples months ago, each of the apps was hosted on-premise in LAMP virtual machines that our IT department maintains. With PHP 5.6 end-of-life at the end of 2018, the IT department decided it didn’t have the […]
I wrote about our Drupal, Pantheon, CircleCI development process at my day job awhile ago, and I recently gave a talk at work where I delved a little more deeply into the architecture and process. Here is a snippet of that talk. It's only fair to share…FacebookTwitterEmail
UPDATE: Watch a tech talk I recently gave at work about this process. I’ve been doing some pretty cool work with Drupal 8, Composer, Github, Pantheon and CircleCI around Continuous Integration and Deployment at the day job. Well, not sure you can call Drupal “cool”, but the rest of it is kind of neat, so […]
Had a difficult time authenticating to a newly installed MariaDB 10.1 instance on Debian 9 (Stretch) recently, wasting a couple of hours and some precious late-night sanity, so I wanted to document that here for myself later, and anyone else who might run across this. As part of a learning exercise I wanted to install […]
For no good reason I wrote a little code to tweet out random posts from this very WordPress blog. I don’t tweet much anyway, and I just wanted to see something on my timeline, plus maybe get a little link love back to the Knob. It’s also interesting to go back in time and read […]
So I wrote a WordPress plugin to display photos from a public album on Google Photos. You can also get it on Github. You can see the result below, or over there –>, on the right sidebar, near the bottom. That’s all it does, it goes and gets the latest photos from an album in […]
In my day job, I maintain a fairly large-ish Laravel application. It started out as a few separate vanilla PHP web apps, which I consolidated onto Laravel 4, then upgraded to Laravel 5. I’ve added a few new apps to the suite as business needs arose. In the Laravel 4 version, I used creolab/laravel-modules to, […]
It shouldn’t be this hard. I must have installed and re-installed Ubuntu 16.04 twenty times before I found the magic combination to allow my old-ish HP laptop to boot straight into Ubuntu (or boot at all). My son got a new laptop and discarded the beast that was his HP Pavilion. The thing must weigh […]