Writing
Howto's, snippets, and articles I've written over the years.
Apache htaccess password authentication, optimisation, and caching
November 30th, 2014Here's a few Apache snippets for password authentication, allowing acces via an IP (else requesting password), optimising and caching assets, turning og PHP processing, and more.
Job Control Commands: fg, bg and ctrl-z
September 16th, 2014I have a script polling a Beanstalkd queue and needed to put it into the background, and bring it to the front whilst debugging it.
Solved: Fix for MySQL error Code 1217 – A foreign key constraint fails
August 13th, 2014If you're getting the following from MySQL: 'Error Code: 1217. Cannot delete or update a parent row: a foreign key constraint fails' - this is how to fix it
Inspecting jQuery event handlers
August 5th, 2014Ever had issues finding where a JQuery click handler is defined? Got a project with LOTS of Javascript and can't find where an event is handled? Here's how to find out using Google Chrome.
Grep Apache access log for browser and OS version
June 5th, 2014Today I've needed to find out if it was worth testing a client's website with Safari 5 on Windows. Here's some shell foo to find out from an access log
Install NodeJS and Bower on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise
April 29th, 2014I'm using Bower on a few projects at work to manage the JavaScript dependencies and it works perfectly for my needs. The only issue is that the websites are currently deployed on Ubuntu 12.04 and the packaged version of NodeJs is too old to install Bower.
Ignore PHP Strict Errors and Warnings
March 31st, 2014After upgrading to PHP5.4 on one of our older code-bases I'm finding the error logs full of PHP Strict Errors and warnings. As this code is old and not financially viable to fix all these issues I needed to ignore the errors and warnings.
How I use Git for Web Development
March 13th, 2014I have a few steps I usually follow when I find myself working on one of these websites so here's how I use Git with Web Development.
Quick Tip: PHPstorm Find and Replace Regex Dollar Sign ($)
March 1st, 2014If you need to perform a Find and Replace with a Regex in PHPStorm and want to replace a dollar sign ($) you'll need to escape it with a double slash
Fix for PHP ‘ Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in …’
February 14th, 2014I'm getting lots of pages with the PHP warning "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ...". The warning is showing because I like to develop with error reporting turned on.
Can’t find VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO?
February 13th, 2014Can't find the VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO? Here's a link to the VirtualBox downloads server.
Why NPR’s intern didn’t like Public Enemy’s ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’
January 23rd, 2014Today I read a well written blog post over at NPR Music called ‘You’ve never heard Public Enemy’s ‘It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back’ in which one of their young interns, Austin Cooper, listens to Public Enemy’s classic album for the first time, and hated it.