PHP How to generate a CSR with SANs in PHP A simple tutorial on how to generate a CSR with SANs in PHP. Code samples are supplied.
Drupal Custom Cloudflare WAF rules that every Drupal site should run This blog post helps to summarise some of the default rules I will deploy to every Drupal (7 or 8) site as a base line.
Meta The history of Pixelite, a progression through the CMS landscape This website www.pixelite.co.nz has gone through a few iterations over the years. I thought I would go through a few of the various CMSs and hosting providers we have used, and what went well, and what lessons we learned.
Ghost Add PrismJS to Ghost for syntax highlighting of code snippets Out of the box Ghost will not syntax highlight your code snippets. I will explain how to implement these changes in your own site.
Drupal JSON:API testing with Cypress Upgrading JSON:API and Drupal core can be tricky to keep your API intact. Using Cypress is an easy way to have an extra set of eyeballs on the upgrade.
CasperJS API testing using CasperJS Having tests across your API endpoints is essential in order to avoid regression issues down the track
Drupal 10 things I learnt building in Drupal 8 Some of the neat things I have found with Drupal 8 and some of my lessons learned
Drupal Writing PHPunit tests for your custom modules in Drupal 8 Integrating PHPunit into your custom modules is now even easier.
Drupal Measuring Drupal content growth over time A graphical way to see how your Drupal site content is growing over time
Drupal Dynamic content caching based on attributes in Drupal 7 Simple code to maximise your varnish hitrate
Git Extracting a file or a folder from a git repository with full git history Simple git commands to save you
Drupal Using git pre-commit hooks to keep your Drupal codebase clean Sick of committing debug code to your git repo?
Drupal How to create a dashboard with Dashing and integrate with Drupal data Show off you Drupal data on your TV on the wall
Drupal Upgrading PHP to 5.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to support Drupal 8 As of the 28 February 2014, Drupal 8 now requires a minimum PHP version of 5.4.2. For background information read the drupal.org issue. This places everyone running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in an awkward situation as the PHP version bundled with this release is PHP 5.3.