Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• PHPUnit Testing Failure

  Updated:20 Aug, 2019

  Today's challenge caused me to burn a lot of time before resolving the issue, which turned out to be an obvious mistake. When I run a unit test I need to a

• Guzzle and Curl

  Updated:12 Aug, 2019

  Related to my previous post about Laravel. Guzzle and Nginx I ran into an issue with our proxy. The proxy is always a source of fun and games. Because the

• Chocolatey Proxy

  12 Aug, 2019

  I was tidying up another PC today and came across an annoying issue that I couldn't resolve. It took me a while, reinstalling, uninstalling choco etc. and

• OverAPI.com

  8 Aug, 2019

  http://overapi.com/

• Laravel, Guzzle and Nginx

  7 Aug, 2019

  After deploying a working test into our pre-production environment the Guzzle API calls we were making to fetch bank holiday data from the .gov.uk site sta

• SQL Format

  Updated:5 Aug, 2019

  We've all got SQL that needs tidying up. https://poorsql.com/ or https://sqlformat.org/ or http://sqlformat.darold.net/ It wont fix your syntax but it will

• Gitlab: When an Upgrade Goes Bad!

  Updated:27 Jul, 2019

  Today is not a lot of fun. I've been seeing some issues with apt not being able to upgrade Gitlab due to a proxy error. This morning I fixed it and the upg

• MySQL CSV Import

  Updated:24 Jul, 2019

  A little while ago I wrote a php routine to import CSV files that contain a lot of data into a MySQL table. It works, but it takes it's time doing so. I wa

• VS Code Extensions

  Updated:18 Jul, 2019

  I'm an Atom fan and have used it on Linux for ages. I probably still will, but our other developers tend to use VS Code because of their use of MS Windows.

• VSCode rest-client

  15 Jul, 2019

  Now Postman is awesome, but I came across this really good rest-client plugin for VSCode. What makes it so good is that I can save the .rest or .http files