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Category: PHP
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My current tools and tech in 2019
I try to avoid jumping on every new trend which comes along in the web world, especially over the last few years, where things seem to…
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Deploying and maintaining a website using git
I’ve kind of used git to deploy/ manage php/ static websites for a while now, but in a very luddite way – basically sshing into the…
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Using Vagrant for local LAMP development
I’ve always used a local version of Apache for php dev, either the version provided with OSX, or using something like XAMPP or MAMP. On a…
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Upgrading to OSX Mavericks
I’m a late adopter, but I finally took the plunge and upgraded to OSX Mavericks tonight. A few gotchas:-
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Braindump April 2013
One of the oldest production web applications i’ve ever built is still happily running mission-critical operations for a small distribution company. I’ll be the first to…
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Combining and minifying assets on a PHP site with PHP minify
I’ve been getting carried away with my Camper Van blog over the last couple of weeks, overcompensating for my lack of actual design skills by adding…
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Another flat-file driven blog/ cms engine on the block
I’ve just been looking at Statamic, which is a markdown-driven CMS and blog, self-hosted and written in PHP. It’s commercial rather than open-source, but at a…
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Web developer tools of the trade
I’ve had to change machines a few times recently, and each time I wish I had a decent checklist of what I need to be able…
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eatStatic demo site online
Shhh.. don’t tell anyone but i’ve quietly launched the eatStatic demo site, which now runs from the master branch of the github repo. This is still…
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eatStatic is Dead, long live eatStatic
I was pleased to see people recently enthusing on twitter about text-file based blog and CMS tools – nesta CMS, Kirby and scriptogr.am, as it validated…
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Setting up apache on osx lion
For general website/ PHP development, I like to have multiple local sites running from my Sites folder using virtualhosts. Up until now i’ve usually done this…
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Object storage and retrieval in PHP part 2 – MongoDb
In part one, I talked about how to save and retrieve a PHP object instance using JSON files, and in this post I talk about the…