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CakePHP4 Tutorial Videos

So I have been using CakePHP since 2015 and have now started to try and solidify my learning by making Youtube Videos. Similar to Blogging once I create a Video I can refer back to it later. Videos Using Dependency Injection to move Controller Action code to Service...

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Electron & React

So I have been using timer apps from the App Store on my Mac to time parts that I run on Zoom. I was using Tempus but the form factor meant that I was clicking start and then having to relocate the window and hiding the control buttons. I also found that sometimes I...

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CakePHP 4 multi-value search form

Sometimes you want to provide a multi-value search form This form POST's to http://10.197.3.73:6002/wms/pallets/lookupSearch Thenthe lookupSearch action filters the POST data and redirects to the lookup action with the search terms in the query string The lookup...

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SFTP on Linux with chroot

I am currently working on integrating a client internal system with MessageXchange via an SFTP gateway for EDI with Coles, Woolworth and Metcash (when MessageXchange / Colladium - completes their accreditation) So for testing I wanted to emulate their SFTP endpoint....

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MacOS USB Creator

Just toasted my Windows 10 Pro install with a Windows 11 upgrade. Think it will be unrecoverable (because of Bitlocker and no recovery keys in AAD) but going to try and recover with Veeam and need to copy the recovery ISO to USB to kick off the restore. This is a nice...

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