Craig Pearson

PHP

New features coming in PHP 7.4

PHP 7.4 is scheduled for release in November of this year, with it bring some performance improvements along with some new features. Here are a couple of the new features that are coming that I'm excited about. Spread operator updatesPHP has had support for the spread operator for a

Docker

Creating a cluster with Rancher - Part 1: Installing rancher

Rancher is an open-source self-hosted Kubernetes user interface. I'm going to show you how easy it is to get up and running with Rancher so that you can have a play.

Development

Using Docker for PHP development.

I'm going to assume you have some basic knowledge of docker. I also assume you have installed docker and docker-compose locally. You can read more about docker here. I'm going to be doing this for an example Laravel site however this should work if you're using Drupal or some similar

SVG

Using Snap.svg for rich interactivity

A quick intro into using Snap.svg

Apache

Analyse Apache traffic with asql log interface

Get meaningful stats/data from your apache log files easily

Drupal

Installing Solr for development

Simple Solr server setup for use while developing

Gimp

Using GIMP's Foreground select tool

GIMP has a fantastic tool for selecting a single or multiple similar items in an image. Foreground Select Tool.

Python

Using apache-libcloud to provision cloud servers

Apache’s libcloud is a Python library that allows you to write code that interacts with numerous cloud service providers.

OpenERP

Adding additional fields using a custom module in OpenERP 7

My eyes, the goggles do nothing!

Python

Validate and clean user submitted address data with pygeocoder

Sanitise and validate user supplied addresses

Computer vision

How computers see. A simple introduction to computer vision

Computers can’t actually see, but there are tools out there and methods for making computers “see” things we humans can.

Drupal

Attaching AJAX events to non-form page elements in Drupal

Making AJAX request in Drupal using the form API is real nice and simple

Debugging

Remote debugging with Chrome and Android

As developers, many of you may have encountered the Chrome Developer Tools (CDT) at one time or another. You may also be aware of the Remote Debugging functionality which opens up an API and allows you to run the developer tools in another browser. Which, to be honest I haven't

Drupal

Importing content with the feeds module

Importing content with Feeds

Cloud

Give your site some CloudFlare

Why and how you should add CloudFlare to your site.

Bash

Connecting to a private LAN host over the internet via SSH.

Helpful ways to ssh via a bastion host.

Linux

Backing up content via email to GMail

I have recently migrated my hosting backups to Amazon S3, it's cheep, reliable and, well... why not. In the past I had some little scripts that I used to use to back up some items on my personal hosting server. I thought, that since I was retiring them, that I'd