There are 8 articles written in December, 2016

Things I learned in the past four years

on December 30, 2016. in Blablabla, Development, Programming. A 4 minute read.

Since yesterday was my last day on a project after four years and two months, I decided to take a look back on those four years and write down some of the things I learned.

Issues with Vagrant after upgrading to Fedora 25

on December 24, 2016. in Development, Software. A 2 minute read.

Fedora 25 was released over a month ago, so I decided it was time to upgrade from 24.

Using Doctrine DBAL with Zend Expressive

on December 22, 2016. in Programming, Development, Software. A 2 minute read.

The Doctrine project comes with a database abstraction and access layer — Doctrine DBAL — which I prefer over other abstraction layers like Zend DB.

Anatomy of a git diff

on December 20, 2016. in Development, Software. A 3 minute read.

I’m looking at git diffs every day, all day. Diffs hold a lot of information that can be valuable, and I think it’s a good thing to know how to fully read a git diff.

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Editing Vim macros

on December 15, 2016. in Development, Software. A 2 minute read.

Vim macros are a powerful thing — they let us record keystrokes and play them back later. These macros are recorded to named registers.

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Renewing Let's Encrypt certificates

on December 13, 2016. in Development, Software. A 1 minute read.

Back in July I wrote how to set up SSL certificates with Let’s Encrypt. One of my certificates was due to a renewal, and
anticipating some work to renew it, I decided to blog how to renew a Let’s Encrypt certificate.

Verbose commiting

on December 12, 2016. in Software, Development. A 1 minute read.

One thing I recently learned about git, is the -v or --verbose flag for the git commit command. It shows the diff of what is being commited in $EDITOR below the commit message
template. Taken directly from man git commit:

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Configure Fedora's firewall for Vagrant

on December 09, 2016. in Development, Software. A 2 minute read.

This one’s been in my drafts for a long time, might as well publish it.