Amazon Prime Day Fail

So yesterday was Prime day on Amazon. Billed as more deals than Black Friday we all eagerly made our way to Amazon to fill our baskets with wonderful, reduced items that would fulfil all our needs. And then there was this: https://twitter.com/npralle/status/621383152704077824 This summed up Prime Day perfectly. Thousands of items that no one really…… Continue reading Amazon Prime Day Fail

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

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

Quick Tip: Increase PHP CLI memory limits

I keep running into memory issues when running pretty intensive scripts from the PHP CLI especially when generating API documentation etc. Now if you don’t want to go and edit your php.ini you can simply add a runtime variable to increase your memory limit. It’s all thanks to the -d or -define option. This option…… Continue reading Quick Tip: Increase PHP CLI memory limits

Finding the right balance

I recently asked my followers what they would like to see me blog about and I was pleasantly surprised to get a response. Well it would be rude of me not to respond so I thought I would talk about finding the right balance between work, life and pet projects. https://twitter.com/scotthack/status/287970043025821696 I work full time,…… Continue reading Finding the right balance