A great article on how to set up and manage ssh keys for multiple github accounts/repositories
Having vagrant run on Windows host machine may cause some problems with symbolic links. After trying to make symbolic links to work and failing, I decided to use public disk in development and local disk in production. php artisan storage:link makes symbolic link from “public/storage” to “storage/app/public”. When developing on windows-vagrant this command will not work properly,…
When working on a php package it is inconvenient to push the package to github (or other repository) and then wait for the package to update using composer update. For package development, composer has such feature as path repositories. Let’s imagine we have a two folders on the same level: my-app and package. my-app is an app — a test…
When you extensively work with certain APIs, like Shopify’s for example, you will end up with bunch of functions that map to API’s endpoints. One of the approaches I have seen so far is to create an API class ShopifyApi and make those functions class methods. So it looks something like the figure below. I…
This article covers installation of Jenkins on Ubuntu server and its usage to continuously integrate a Laravel application. Besides LAMP/LEMP stack we need to install Java, Git, Composer, and Node to successfully use Jenkins. Before starting to install this software, let’s take care of miscellaneous stuff. Miscellaneous (can skip this). Create mysql user and database….
As a rule, dates in a database are stored in UTC. So, when you export records from database constrained by dates, it is a good idea to use appropriate timezone in export query. You can do it in one of two ways. One way is create incoming dates in user’s timezone, then covert time to…
