I’m a big fan of Bash On Ubuntu On Windows and for the most part it “just works”, however I did run into an issue trying to SSH into a server using a key rather than password. OpenSSH requires…
A couple of months back I needed a laptop to work from for a project. Doing a bit of research narrowed it down to the Dell XPS 13 as my best option. One of the things that attracted me was…
Importing a MySQL 5.7 dump into an older 5.5 DB brought up an error: Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci’ Turns out the simple fix for this is a find/replace to utf8_unicode_ci Related:
A few months back SRAM released the Shockwiz , a device to connect to your air sprung mountain bike suspension. The device pairs to an Android/iOS app on your phone to give you suggestions on what settings to adjust on your…
There seemed to be a lot of example Docker containers for NodeJS/Express apps, but most of these seemed to be setup to run on macOS. I ran into a few issues when trying to get it all setup using a…
I love Vagrant, its a great tool for development. Sadly, once your project gets too big, performance really drops off a cliff on Windows. Running a Symfony2 project, I was getting ~20 second page refresh times. Apparently this relates to…
I couldn’t seem to get the Solr Suggester feature to work from the official docs examples so thought I’d document my working example. In my case I wanted to suggest locations based on data currently within the index. within solrconfig.xml…
Just for reference, here is the bootstrap.sh file I use to bring up my vagrant dev box with Solr 4 and Jetty ready to go. #!/usr/bin/env bash apt-get install python-software-properties add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5 apt-get update apt-get install php5 apt-get install php5-mysql…
I’ve never really come across the need to use an interface, and usually just use inheritance to extend whatever class I needed to. Recently though I needed a generic base caching class, which would have other classes implement there own…
This week we had the director of an external agency in the office. During a meeting with him he brought up that back in the old days of cubicle programmers, some would have ‘cardboard cutouts‘ to bounce ideas off when…
