Kieron Howard+ by | Sep 23, 2017 | Development
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 the option of having an out of the box Ubuntu version. After ordering from Dell...
Kieron Howard+ by | Jun 30, 2017 | Development
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: The trojan...
Kieron Howard+ by | May 12, 2017 | Development
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 forks and shock to improve there...
Kieron Howard+ by | Jan 28, 2017 | Development
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 Windows host so thought I’d make some notes on it for future...
Kieron Howard+ by | Jan 30, 2014 | Development, Servers
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 VirtualBox NFS on the shared...
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