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All the articles I've posted.

When is a Question Mark not a ?
That's a morning of smashing my face on the desk again. I deployed my dev program onto a production system and then started crying as it stopped working as

Postman is Awesome
Updated:I'm in the process of testing and documenting my API's and up until yesterday I'd only used postman to test my responses gave me something back. But it's capable of so much more!

OpenVPN DNS
Updated:Using OpenDNS on a Linux system that uses resolv.conf requires that the OpenVPN script is able to update the DNS servers sent by the remote dhcp options. T

Postman Makes API Development Simple
Updated:Back in the day it seems our CRM developers advised us to use Soap UI for testing out the API calls needed. But I thought I'd give postman a try as we've a

Laravel and Lagan Web Services - SOAP API
Updated:SOAP is a dirty word to me. But I have a need to interact with our CRM system to import / extract data. My go to platform for most of my PHP work is Larave

Sudo and Proxy / Environment Settings
When you run a program using sudo what tends to happen is the sudo/root account fails to do anything useful on the internet. It times out trying to connect

Laravel API and Bootstrap Form Validation
Updated:This caused me some grief today. I spent the day adding validation rules into my Laravel resource controller and rather foolishly set HTML5 validation para

Linting
Updated:No, this isn't about taking the fluff from your belly button - but you're close. https://eslint.org/ Linting your written code is a method of ensuring that

Laravel Debug Bar
Updated:It's a good job my job title doesn't include development. Some things I find out seem a long time after I need then and would be useful in the world of dev

Yarn, npm and Git
Updated:I'm kinda new to this hosting software externally. I've been happy using Gitlab for internal private projects, but recently I've been forking and reworking