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MacOS Mojave Application Upgrade Tweaks

Docker Community Edition Docker Community Edition runs and you can start a container from the command line, so the native virtualization layer seems to be functioning, but the Kitematic application complains of missing a 'native setup'. But after several reboots this...

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Australian Mobile Validation CakePHP 3.x

This is a very simple mobile validation for Australian Mobiles. It probably would also benefit from having all the symbols except + stripped too // src/Model/Table/Users.php where Users is the class name // of the table field your are validating $australianMobile =...

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Car Mounted Traffic Guidance Drone

An idea A car with a small compartment with an automatic door. The compartment contains a charging cradle and a small micro-drone with a hi res camera and a wi-fi connection back to the car The cars on-board computer releases the drone when the car driver, or the cars...

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Apache Reverse Proxy with Websocket

This is the working configuration for an SSL Apache 2.4.6 Reverse Proxy back to an Apache-Coyote/1.1 server, including letsencrypt configuration to allow the automated renewal of certificates using a local webroot on the Reverse Proxy Server Apache Reverse Proxy SSL...

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Embedding ReactJS in a CakePHP View

When people say they want to use  CakePHP with React typically the recommendation is to convert CakePHP into an API server and then add ReactJS as the front-end served on a different URL than CakePHP. But what about when you have a CakePHP application and you...

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