Had a nice start to the year and managed to deliver two new websites for clients. Telactivus are a technology consultancy business with over 50 combined years of industry experience who wanted a simple, easy to manage website for their new business that could grow as their business did. Pure Makeup is my wife’s makeup…… Continue reading New Websites Added To The Portfolio
Category: Developer
I’m a full time developer. I work on an iMac using mainly Sublime Text 2 and iTerm. 99% of my work is written in PHP and the majority of that is using WordPress. When I learn something new I like to share it with others, Google has been my teacher over the years so hopefully I can pass on something useful to someone else along the way. I’m not always right, but hey who is?
Learning New Skills in 2015
As a developer there is a thin line between becoming stuck in your ways and constantly trying new technologies. Over the past 2 years I have moved away from working exclusively with WordPress and have spent most of my time working with CakePHP. Now this certainly doesn’t mean that I’m done with WordPress, far from it…… Continue reading Learning New Skills in 2015
Easily manage all your WordPress sites with 10% off from ManageWP
I’ve been managing LOTS of WordPress sites for a long time and it’s not always easy! Plugin updates, Core updates, managing content can all be time consuming, not to mention backups and spinning up development sites etc. Back in 2011 I joined the initial beta program of ManageWP and 3 years later I’m still a…… Continue reading Easily manage all your WordPress sites with 10% off from ManageWP
How to fix “exim dead but subsys locked” issue
cPanel is annoying, but sometimes we still have to use it. If you come across the issue “exim dead but subsys locked”. Have a go at the following: If you see this error check for a file named eximdisable in /etc/ If you found the file then do the following steps and you are all done.
Proper Big Boy Follow Up
This is a bit of a follow up to a question I posted last week. I was struggling with deployment options for my app and more specifically how I could differentiate between configurations. I’d thought I would share how I did it. Environment Variables Some people like to use these for everything, I didn’t want…… Continue reading Proper Big Boy Follow Up
Proper big boy applications and deployment
So this is more a call for help than my usual blog post. In the past I have been confined to simple (well I say simple) projects that generally run on WordPress and can be easily deployed using Git and DB management, config management etc is fairly easy. Recently I’ve been working on something MUCH…… Continue reading Proper big boy applications and deployment