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ntpdate

Just upgrading from 5.1 to 5.5 of the Vcenter Server Appliance and was wanting to set time synchronization Get a list of public NTP server from http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/au Login to the upgraded VCSA as root and run ntpdate your.ntp.server.name.here will confirm...

Format Of and Verify an ABN – Ouh a secret puzzle

Just discovered it's not just Credit Cards and Barcodes that have validity check digits and algorithms FIrstly an ABN (Australian Business Number) is formatted XX XXX XXX XXX e.g 84 008 812 322 The ABR website has the information on how to calculate the validity of an...

Tips to using CakePHP 3.x as a ReactJS API backend

Information for React I found useful https://auth0.com/blog/secure-your-react-and-redux-app-with-jwt-authentication/ this had a sample project that showed how to setup redux and react and explains the redux ecosystem of store, actions, action creators, reducers etc....

CakePHP 3 Database Migrations

You have a database with a heap of tables already running. You want to start from that base and then be able to migrate from that running database through the addition of new fields and then migrate those changes to your production database Here is how I believe you...