So I write these little tech snippets mostly as a personal journal for my future self. Anyway, got caught again at work by a weird situation where dev and test/prod environments differed. Well, not really, but kind of. What? I deployed our main app last month after upgrading it to Laravel 5 and all seemed […]
I gave a little presentation at work the other day on using automated testing in my Laravel project using Codeception. Here’s a screencast. The audio is a little low, so there’s a basic transcript below the video. Enjoy. ========================================== Transcript… ========================================== [chrome: show feature request in jira] so here’s a little example of writing an […]
Here’s another instance of being wary when your development environment does not exactly match your production environment. In PHP, for the longest time, when you fetched records from a MySql database, every column, no matter the column type, would be returned as a string. Primary key “id” of 42, type integer? String. Column “pi” of […]
These tech posts on how I did something are mostly just a diary of my own server maintenance, so that in 11 months, when the website I googled is no longer found, I can remember what I did, why, where and how. Familyvance.com was getting slammed by Russian bots with the former Soviets comprising more […]
Here’s how I installed the free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on Nginx to use with this WordPress site. I used this helpful article and some docs from the Let’s Encrypt site to get this working. I’ll have to update the cert every 90 days until I get around to getting that automated. Basically, the steps […]
Here’s how I set up WordPress to seamlessly use SSH, rather than FTP, for updates. Using this method, I never have to enter a password, never have to (S)FTP, never have to mess with file permissions. Like the WordPress Codex says, there are two ways to setup WordPress to use SSH: The SSH SFTP Updater […]
I’ve been running a Plex Media Server off on old laptop for more than a year now without a hiccup. A few years ago Jess came home with these decade old Dell laptops that her work was going to throw away, and I’ve just tinkered with them off and on. Initially, I tried to run […]
A user requests the ability to browse and insert links to nodes (pages) from the WYSIWYG editor, similar to how it works for uploaded files. A quick google search returns TinyMCE Node Picker which sounds perfect. Oh, wait … This module will de discontinued and replaced with Node Picker as soon as a stable release […]