The Abstracts of My BrainAn engineer's technical notes and programming solutionsProblem: While working on a pet project, I decided to use Laravel 5 on my Dreamhost shared server (where most of my prototype/hobbies go). I was able to get composer running fine w
Problem: Lately I've been playing around with mobile app development using Ionic V2 (with Cordova ). While testing it on my older mobile device (Galaxy S4) I noticed that the nativ
Problem: While running some unit tests on a managed project, I ran across an issue from the Guzzle library. cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certi
Problem: I checked out updated my master branch to work on some hot fixes, but one I had pulled in the latest master branch, I found two files which were being tracked as modified.
Problem: While working on a composer library for a client, I ran into an issue where running the command: composer update Caused an error to be printed on the screen that read: fat
Problem: Working on a quick prototype using maxmind, I wanted to use my new python skills. The geoip2 module looked like a good place to start, but I had to install the maxminddb m
Problem: My wife has a WordPress blog and over time everything has been slowing down until the site pretty much stopped working all together. Solution: Optimizing WordPress is a ve
Problem: When uninstalling the old version and installing the new version of vagrant (along with the requires system restarts), I was met by this message when trying to boot up my
Problem: While working with a company, I decided to look into how they were generating their registration codes which were used to allow users to pre-purchase access to their platf
Problem: While working on some software that integrates with popular LMS frameworks, I wanted to have a server which I could test Moodle on. I found a community image published by
Problem: One of my client's Laravel web sites was having issues with logging in users where the first time, they would get the TokenMismatchException (gracefully handled, of course
Problem: Adding a Google Maps API control to a web page, I found that the controls were failing to render properly. They looked like this: Solution: It happens that a generic style
