Fixing “No Network Card Installed” on a Mac
This was a particular pain in the arse for me and caused me no end of grief! Hopefully this post will help some of you in a similar situation. At the time of writing this fix works on a MacBook Pro 15...
View ArticleUpdating Your Export Path in OS X
Seems like a simple one doesn’t it! I thought, so until I tried Googling it. I thought I would post a brief article about how to do this and explain how to use the Mac profile. Firstly lets explain...
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Installing Symfony in MAMP on OS X
At the time of writing I am on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5.8, MAMP PRO 1.9 and Symfony 1.4. MAMP? Have you got it and is it installed? If not why not? MAMP is for me the best development environment...
View ArticleInstalling Image Magick and Imagick for PHP for MAMP
Now this is one topic I am glad I have got through. This caused me no end of grief. I think before we get to the nitty gritty of installing and configuring the software it is important to understand...
View ArticleInstalling MacPorts
MacPorts is a community initiative developed to make it easy for people like me to compile, install and upgrade software through the command-line. Before installing it you will need to meet the...
View ArticleUpdate Your Screen Capture (Screenshot) Location on Mac OS X
Little tip for changing the default path where the Mac screen capture tool drops the screen shots you take. By default any screen shots are dropped on your desktop, which if you are as anal as I am in...
View ArticleCreating Your Own File Browser for CKEditor in PHP
I am going to talk to anyone out there about how you can create your own file browser for CKEditor. Before you say it CKEditor to provide a file browser and uploader called CKFinder that you can...
View ArticleInitiating CKEditor with JQuery and Using JQuery UI Dialog
Firstly I have to say how good CKEditor is! You may remember FCKEditor, which CKEditor has evolved from. What a fantastic bit of kit. I would be lost without it. I heavily use JQuery UI with their...
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Using window.location in a JQuery/JavaScript Function on Internet Explorer 6...
Now then, what can I say about my favourite browser that is in my view Microsoft’s best invention! Crap! Simple as that for now. I will reserve a separate blog for discussing IE6 another time – or...
View ArticleAccessing, Getting and Setting Config, Parameters or Settings in Symfony2
Most web applications will require some specific constants or settings that can be used by any bundle or service. In Symfony2 this is very simple. You can add any parameters you need to the...
View ArticleMac OSX Dev Environment (LEMP stack) Using Vagrant and Homestead
Important Notice: This environment is a LEMP stack and useful for PHP frameworks like Symfony, Laravel, Zend, etc. This may not be what you are looking for so just wanted to advise before you read my...
View ArticleHow to choose and buy your own web address
You are starting a business or already have one and want a web address for it; you want a professional looking email address; you might want a website or start a blog as I have done, or maybe you just...
View ArticleASP.NET Core C#: Using a SOAP service from a WSDL
A client has asked you to consume a new web service. “Nice one!”, you think. “That is nice and straight forward.” Consuming a REST service would be nice and straight forward, but it is a SOAP service....
View ArticleASP.NET Core C#: Handling default and null values in JSON responses
When developing web services in C# on ASP.NET Core using REST you will often provide responses in JSON. The go-to framework to handle JSON in ASP.NET Core is Newtonsoft and there are a number of...
View ArticleAre you a coder or an engineer?
This post is not about the differences between a coder, an engineer or any of the grey areas of roles in between. It is about your understanding of the code you write. I am often asked, as I am sure...
View ArticleASP.NET Core C#: Escape or encode apostrophes, quotes and special characters...
Why is it important to always consider how you escape or encode newlines, carriage returns, apostrophes, quotes and other special characters from text input by users? It is important as we do not...
View ArticleUsing Linux grep search with AND, OR and NOT operators
I was asked recently to check if someone had been accessing a web service outside the office and at first I thought that would be quite simple. I would just go and check the access logs on the server...
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