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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.
Continue reading Using Doctrine DBAL with Zend Expressive...
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.
Continue reading Anatomy of a git diff...
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.
Continue reading Editing Vim macros...
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.
Continue reading Renewing Let's Encrypt certificates...
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
:
Continue reading Verbose commiting...
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.
Continue reading Configure Fedora's firewall for Vagrant...
on August 04, 2016. in Programming, Development. A 6 minute read.
Three weeks ago I wrote a post on how to utilize Tactician in a Zend Expressive application. Today I want to expand on that post a little by adding the possibility to trigger and listen to events using the Zend EventManager component.
Continue reading Events in a Zend Expressive application...
on July 20, 2016. in Programming, Software, Development. A 1 minute read.
I ran accross a minor issue today that I never experienced before. The colors for the PHPUnit’s output were missing. I had the colors=true
directive set in the phpunit.xml
configuration file, but the output was just black and white.
Continue reading Missing colors for PHPUnit...
on July 13, 2016. in Programming, Development. A 7 minute read.
I spent some time connecting the dots last week, so I decided to put together an example on how to get started with using Tactician in a Zend Expressive application. The example itself is not really useful, but it does show how to setup the dependencies and get started with these two libraries.
Continue reading Using Tactician in a Zend Expressive application...
on July 06, 2016. in Development, Software. A 3 minute read.
This past week I finally got around to setting up SSL certificates using Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt is an open certificate authority that provides free SSL/TLS certificates. It’s goal is to make creating, renewing and using SSL certs painless.
Continue reading Setting up SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt...