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MacOS doesn’t need Cups-PDF because of this
I recently tried to install Cups-PDF on macOS Sierra but it failed. However because macOS pretty much prints PDF native you just have to go fishing in /private/var/spool/cups and fish out the PDF data files and rename them and you have a copy of the file you want....
CakePHP 2 – Dynamically Globally Changing the Database Connection
Dynamically Globally Changing the Database Connection in CakePHP 2.x I use this code in app/Model/AppModel.php to dynamically change my database environment in CakePHP 2.x depending where it is running <?php //app/Model/AppModel.php App::uses('Model', 'Model');...
If you, like me, haven't had formal programming training and would like to see how to properly code in PHP. Have a look at the source code to the Pheanstalk project. IANAP but to me it looks very clean and logical and very DRY (don't repeat yourself)...
CakePHP+Pheanstalk+Beanstalk+Supervisord
UI Lockups due to long running tasks Recently coded a CakePHP 3 application that would send about 30-60 emails when a user triggered the 'notify' action. When they did this it took probably 30 - 40 seconds for control to return to user. So I was looking at how to fix...
Setting the Apache 2.4 PATH environment variable in a brew services started httpd process
Note the following perl script #!/usr/bin/env perl -wT print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; # foreach $key (sort keys(%ENV)) { print "$key = $ENV{$key}<p>"; } As you can see the hash bang is #!/usr/bin/env perl this is supposed to be more portable because it...
An end to the never ending story of ReactJS development environment setup
So I just learn't that there is a command that can create a react environment quickly and easily. And it includes the cool web server that reloads every time you edit your component code and also it has a build command to compile it to production.... A lot easier...