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by James McDonald | Apr 21, 2025 | 0 comments

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Side by side php8.3-FPM

CakePHP 5 uses zend.assertions = 1 for development so if you have production and test environments on your server you need separate instance of php-fpm so you can run one with zend.assertions = 1 for development and the other zend.assertions = -1 for production The...

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CakePHP 5 persoderlind.vscode-phpcbf

Still haven't gotten this working well... sigh. The persoderlind.vscode-phpcbf extension didn't work for me when running my PHP devel container (php:8.2-fpm) on Windows 11 in Docker Desktop using the WSL2 Engine until I let it know about the CakePHP coding standard #...

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Network speed test host to host

On Ubuntu / Debian apt-get install iperf3 On Windows download it from https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php#windows Make sure you create firewall rules to allow them to talk to each other e.g. allow inbound 5201 for the server I'm paranoid so I go to virustotal.com and...

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Ubuntu on Hyper-v

It boils town to installing linux-azure # as root or sudo apt-get update apt-get install linux-azure https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/supported-ubuntu-virtual-machines-on-hyper-v A more manual approach is:...

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