I want to change the name of a column in my database and to do that I have to create a migration and drop a table The query I want to run is UPDATE pallets SET production_date = print_date; Seem so simple in SQL but to do it in CakePHP 4 took some finding Copy data...

Just using Scribus to design and print some lapel cards Regarding Scribus - It seems that the stable version will not run or install easily on Fedora 32 so I have had to make do with the Scribus Version 1.5.6.svn Beta. So after getting around the flakey behavior of...

So recently my code editor has been putting a line through File because it is going to removed in CakePHP 5 So here is an example of code that uses the deprecated methods and the suggested SplFileObject Using File public function createTempFile($print_content,...

Using the VS Code Intelephense Extension You get a squiggly line under a function you know exists When you hover over it the popup says "Undefined function ... " Go to Preferences and Settings [ Ctrl + , ], search for stubs and scroll to the bottom of the Extensions...

Just had a situation where I couldn't get a redirect to work. My CakePHP app is in an Apache enabled docker container behind an nginx reverse proxy $this->redirect($this->request->referer()); The above simply refused to work in my development environment it worked...

The process is similar to my previous post on proxying a sub directory back to the root. For example https://example.com/test => proxies back to / in the docker container upstream cups-endpoint { # in my case I'm using cups inside # a docker container and exposing #...

So for a while I have been using a Digital Ocean droplet based in Singapore and it is cheaper than an AWS EC2 Instance However I did some tests and found that ping times to Sydney from Melbourne were ~20ms and to Singapore ~400ms I noticed some lag problems with a web...

I'm in Melbourne notice the round trip time from my browser to Sydney Amazon Servers 30ms You can test this by finding a ping-able IP address in the cloud you are using to host your VM and compare with one from the another location...

I love gnome-shell I love the simplicity, the integration of the all the system settings in one place and the ability to extend it with extensions But it looks like in their quest to align with the Fisher-Price Desktop Standard they have trimmed some functionality...

Been struggling to come to terms with Gnome Shell removing the Windows System Tray functionality Have installed some extensions to get tray icons showing sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator sudo dnf...