Blog Post Archive

I'm sure that I'm not the only person like this but i often forget to run certain commands when pulling my blog live from GitHub. The two I'm terrible for are php artisan migrate and php artisan confi...

I think its fair to say i have a bit of an addiction to Linux distro's.... over the last few months i have tried and tested a number of them and also blogged about a few... here is a brief list of dis...

I've posted before on setting up PHP development environments on various Linux, but I've never really gone over the "Nice to haves" i like when working with. So today were going to go through the ste...

Occasionally i come across packages that are small but incredibly helpful. So this package I'm going to go over today was built by my work mate @tommountain_ the lead developer at the company we work...

Over the past year i have started to enjoy Blogging and hopefully soon Vlogging, but one thing has driven me crazy whilst trying to drive more traffic to my site and twitter page was copying and pasti...

So every now and then i see something that catches my eye. Recently that seems to be Linux Distributions, over the last few months i have changed my distribution's a few times to try and find one i'm...

In our first tutorial we didn't actually do any data gathering, we just setup the environment and DB were working with. So in this tutorial we're going to grab some information from the DB!

MySQL is a huge part of the data world and often people are scared to get started, because they don't know how, where or what to start with. Before start the tutorial you will need to install MySQL...

I'm someone who is now using Linux as my main OS but remember quite well how difficult it was to get my head around the workings of Linux my first few weeks. So today i'm going to share a number of...

I'm just about to change my theme with another incredible theme from WickedTemplates. It's an old theme from WickedTemplates which is actually no longer available for download. however i want to use t...

Last month i was helping out a friend with some server logs on a Hetzner Cloud Package and was quite impressed with the Hetzner server controls etc... then my buddy told me the price and i was blown a...

One thing i spotted when i started using Tech Twitter was people would post screenshots of there system specifications in terminals with pretty logos etc and i wanted to know how it was all done!........

I'm a Brazilian JiuJitsu Practitioner, its the one hobby I do outside my family. Four hours a week I got to my club Primal BJJ which is a padded room in Rhyl, North Wales to essentially learn how to s...

Last month i went through the start to finish process of setting up Valet Linux on Ubuntu 20.04. Unfortunately the system i went through the tutorial with has died.... so i'm back to my iMac, i've bou...

so i think in the world of IDE's today there is two that are top of the piles (Free & Paid). You have PHP Storm and VScode, These two IDE's are incredible, the only difference is VScode is free and...

What is Laravel Wink? Put it simply, Laravel Wink is the incredible package put together by Mohamed Said one of Laravel's full time developers. The package itself is a medium like blogging platform wh...

In the last few blog entries i have about Ubuntu a lot. from building a dev environment from scratch all the way through to how it feels still using it a week on. As i'm getting more and more familiar...

A week ago i wrote my post on Ubuntu Dev Environment. Since then i have been using the system i setup during that blog post as my main machine... and i don't think i'll ever go back to my iMac........

So as mentioned in my previous blog entry, i'm moving away from my iMac to a Linux Dev environment, it will cost me far to much to upgrade the iMac for little gain. So with this post i'm going to outl...

Over the last few months I've slowly started moving away from my iMac for dev work as its a little shabby on its RAM and i don't have the cash to fork out a few hundred quid to upgrade an old iMac....

As you can see, the site has had a bit of an overhaul.... gone has the white template with not really anything "fun" about it to show, and replaced with this awesome Cyber Punk style theme. I cant...

Over the last year and a bit I've been changing from a support based role to a development based role and I'm now at the stage where i'm learning to build my apps from scratch. So far the hardest thi...

When i talk about the first camera its actually about the third camera i owned, my wife 2 at best were horrendous and don't need a mention here... on was literally a Webcam which could double up as a...

Let me start by saying SSL is a good thing and its all ways something i make sure a site has when i'm on it... especially if i'm going to purchase something. But Christ! what a pain in the ass it was...

My Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu mat family and what its means not just for me but the people who also train at the best Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club in North Wales.. S.A.BJJ Academy.

in my quest to build the Raspada Package i wanted to learn other bits about web development and thought id have a play around with some API's...

The word Body stressed me out for 3 whole weeks.... So Its fair to say i'm pretty new to the world of coding, The first bit of coding work i done was about a year ago for the company i work for. i'm...