It’s been almost ten years since I ran my first marathon. I don’t think the Dallas White Rock Marathon still exists, but it was an emotional day for me so I’ll always think fondly on that race. It’s got me thinking about running, my history, my present, my future of running. About three years after […]
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 […]
It’s been more than five years since my last race (the 2011 Houston Marathon which I never wrote about). As soon as I crossed the finish line of that marathon five years ago I swore I was done racing. I was burnt out, I was physically hurt, I knew I didn’t want to keep pushing […]
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 went to Eldora Ski Resort recently for a little solo snowboarding, and the weather was a blizzard. It was still an awesome day though, mostly because there was a surfeit of powder and a deficit of people on the slopes. But man was it windy. Also, it’s weird how silent it gets when you’re […]
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 […]