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Google Chrome – Screen flashing black or all black
I recently upgraded to Windows 11 and installed latest Nvidia Game ready driver and am now noticing Google Chrome displays a black screen or switches between that and normal. Can't use Chrome https://youtu.be/OmPFBEDICbY How to work-a-round Google Chrome screen...
Add Xdebug to a Chocolatey Installed PHP
This is my version of PHP. installed with choco install php. Notice no Xdebug php -v PHP 8.1.6 (cli) (built: May 11 2022 08:56:01) (NTS Visual C++ 2019 x64) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v4.1.6, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies Goto downloads for xdebug here...
Why does my dd output look different in CakePHP 4
If you have ever wondered why sometimes your cake dd() output looks like this: And then other times looks like this: The reason is that the CakePHP/Repl plugin uses symfony/var-dumper and this package has a version of dd() that loads its own version of dd() so the...
CakePHP 4 policy missing from cake bake command
If you try the bin/cake bake policy command and get "Could not find a task named policy." bin/cake bake policy Could not find a task named `policy`. Make sure CakePHP Authorization is installed and then add the following to src/Application.php public function...
Windows 11 – We have finally reached the Year of Linux on the Desktop
Just upgraded to Windows 11 and my WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) instance is visible in Windows Explorer _and_ it has the Penguin logo...
Before you Upgrade to Windows 11
Download and install Veeam agent for Windows Community Edition https://www.veeam.com/agent-for-windows-community-edition.htmlIf the upgrade fails you can roll back and try again later (my desktop that I write this post on was unbootable after the first upgrade and I...
