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IE11 Wonky Bootstrap Rendering

Problem: Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 Professional renders a bootstrap website with form controls in the wrong place and the layout is corrupt Cause: Internet Explorer 11 has been configured to display legacy banking website with ancient IE8 settings...

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Welcome to the Internet Helpdesk

On one of my client sites they have a Telstra Internet connection. An Exchange server sits on the network and forwards mail out to the Telstra Smarthost smtp.telstrabusiness.com. After an update to a Dansguardian proxy server and the subsequent failure of clamd to...

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Bootstrap CakePHP 3 Bootstrap-ui

Bootstrap CakePHP 3 Bootstrap-ui

In my learnings for make self glorious user of Twitter Bootstrap I have been looking at https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/bootstrap-ui I'm using https://github.com/jmcd73/cakephp3-ajax-samples as a place to stash my code so I don't blow my laptop away and then lose it...

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CakePHP 3: _serialize is a View Killer

Note to self: If $this->set('_serialize', [ 'content' ]);  then a request for content type of 'application/json' or 'application/xml' will automagically return the correct data without needing a view file. But if $this->set('_serialize', false); isn't set then a...

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DebugKit not Loading Toolbar in CakePHP 3

Problem: debug set to true in config/app.php, vendor/cakephp/debug_kit exists but debug kit toolbar not appearing in browser, debug_kit/js/toolbar.js shows a 404 when viewing page load in Developer Tools in browser. Cause: symlink from vendor/cakephp/debug_kit/webroot...

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