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Install Solr on Vagrant

[Update] This method will install an older version of Solr. To get the latest I followed this guide. All I had to do was add: config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 4569, guest: 8983 to the Vagrant file. You can then start Tomcat with: /etc/init.d/tomcat6 start and...

Initial look at the Laravel PHP framework

Over the last few years I’ve had great experiences and results using Symfony2 to build web apps. It was the first framework I really explored and used to any extent and the focus on MVC really helped my progression as a developer. For a project I needed to...

Using Git to deploy live/dev sites

Deploying to live/dev Deployment to the live server consists of creating a bare repo in a location on the server accessible via SSH, then pushing to that. A hook script is setup inside this repo to pull any changes out into the working directory for that particular...