Tools for Sending, Developing, and Testing PHP Application Email When sending email through PHP on a local development computer I use MailHog. MailHug is a free tool that traps all of the email sent from your local application and provides an interface
SSH Tips and Tricks SSH is a very repetitively used tool in development. Save time and keystrokes with these tips and tricks.
Getting macOS to trust all your self-signed SSL certificates from Homestead with a single shot If you want Google Chrome on macOS (previously OS X) to always trust all of your sites hosted on your Laravel Homestead vagrant box add the Homestead ca.homestead.homestead.crt certificate file
How I configure Laravel Homestead after installing it on Mac Each time after updating or installing Laravel Homestead I take these steps.Add Homestead to Firefox: https://kevdees.com/fix-sec_error_unknown_issuer-in-firefox-for-homestead-on-macos/Disable strict database date settings in MySQL: https://kevdees.com/
Increase Mac OSX Key Repeat Speed Enter the following in the terminal:defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 12 # normal minimum is 15 (225 ms) defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1 # normal minimum is 2 (30 ms) Then logout and
Fix SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER in Firefox for Homestead on macOS Fixing the SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER error in Firefox on Mac OSX is easy enough. You simply need to import your certificate authority, .csr, file into Firefox. To import your .csr file from
The Poetic Tragedy of Privacy Broken expectations of trust are painful and lead to loss. Take care in how you trust and whom you trust.Change the way you think about privacy and let that inform how you
Disable MySQL Strict Mode and NO_ZERO_DATE Errors in Laravel Homestead In Laravel Homestead to disable MySQL 5.7.* strict mode edit your mysql.cnf options file using the command sudo nano /etc/mysql/conf.d/mysql.cnf and then after the [mysql] line
Gutenberg and WordPress 5.0 WordPress 5.0 is here and with it comes Gutenberg. My belief today: WordPress 5.0 is the biggest misstep and yet necessary step the platform has made to date.I have long
JavaScript Don’t mistake the service worker as a small thing Service workers let you decide what a user experiences on your website when there is, is not or is limited network connectivity. The service worker is a game changer. It is no small
My Programming Naming Philosophy Some thoughts I have on the naming of functions, variables, classes, files, and folder. These thoughts do not have anything to do with project/code structure or architecture. I apply these thoughts to
JavaScript The JavaScript Event Loop I received that feeling of excitement, the unlocking of the mind, watching Philip Roberts unpack the JavaScript event loop at JSConf EU 2014. I'd like to share that moment and hopefully the feeling.
Import and Export MySQL and PostgreSQL There are many ways to export and import data from a database. You can use a Mac client like Sequal Pro for MySQL, for example. You can do the same for PostgreSQL, though
Raw PHP and MySQL Eager Loading Working with complicated and joined data sets can be tricky for MySQL database performance. For example, What if you need to load multiple authors and their books from a database. How would you
Character Encoding: UTF-8, PHP, MySQL and Sequel Pro I love Sequel Pro. However, the default encoding is latin1 and you should be using a form of Unicode like utf8mb4 and utf8mb4_unicode_ci. The next time you add a database with
Servers Server Level CRON Backups Backing up files and storing them in a remote location should be done on a regular basis. Backups are vital. They ensure your code and assets are available if your server is hacked,
Installing xDebug for PHP7 Xdebug deepens debugging PHP apps and websites to a level you can't receive from the manual process of using code level var_dump(). Setup To install Xdebug for PHP7 on Ubuntu you will
WordPress Making an API endpoint in WordPress using add_rewrite_rule There are many ways to build an API in WordPress. I personally like to build them against the base URL. If I was building one for this site it might be http://php-built.
Database Enabling Performance Monitoring for MariaDB and MySQL Enabling performance monitoring for MariaDB and MySQL works the same way. Performance monitoring for databases is beneficial when you have records in the hundreds of thousands using complex joins. It also helps when
Podcasts 101: Learn How to Do Your First Podcast The session itself will be on Podcasting. Luckily I have no shortage of stories when it come to the topic. I have had the honer of podcasting for a little over two years
Entering the SitePoint Podcast Today, I'm happy to announce that the SitePoint Podcast has taken me aboard. Only a few weeks ago, my friend Patrick O'Keefe contacted me while I was in Florida about joining the show.
The day I denied Batman Watching reruns of the 1960s Batman defined my early childhood. I lived on the edge of our family sofa. My eyes transfixed on Adam West, the face of my hero, the Batman.I
Optimizing large font files for @font-face @font-face font optimization has been to my mind recently. Due to the CSS Off that Unmatched Style is hosting if I'm forced to be honest. Now you may be wondering what I mean
IE seeping content link overlap CSS fix Totally fired up about this one. I have not seen this Internet Explorer bug in a while so it was fun to fix. This absolute positioning error affects IE7 and IE8 for sure,
