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go

how parseTime in sql connections work with time.Time in Go

Working with time values in Go is not straightforward, and using a database to store them with automatic parsing can be even more fun! Here are my thoughts on it.

terminal

Customize your ZSH prompt with this one weird trick!

I like having the last commit's sha in the command line. Gives me instant access to the info. I'll walk you through how I made zsh to show it to me.

stripe

Stripe Connect, and what it means for you!

Stripe Connect is a convenient way to set up plugins with a few clicks. It also lets the account you're connecting to see all your data.

advanced

Password managers, password rules, and an idea

What if we had a standard that password fields could tell you whether the input conforms to the ruleset?

advanced

Building a no-js eCommerce store

I want to make an ecommerce site and not use javascript at all as an experiment.

wordpress

Hosting: gotcha with multiple WP installs, one Redis

If you're using one Redis instance to keep multiple WordPress sites' data, you need to make sure different sites don't bleed over to others. Read how and why.

nginx

ETag, If-Match, NGINX, and you!

If you set an ETag response header, and it's missing, NGINX might be removing it. This article explains what causes it and how to fix it so ETags show up again.

go

Testing and mocking - what clicked for me

Rundown on how to transform untestable code to testable, mockable code in Go using interfaces and mocking

timezone

How should we store future time in non UTC in a database and still be performant?

An example of a practical approach on how to store data in both local time, and a normalised time (UTC), and still be performant, but counter the timezone shift.

wordpress

Generating WordPress salts in Go

One of the things I want to achieve in 2018 is to learn to use Go. - learn golang - launch own saas - launch company saas - get to work on a tropical island in between surfing sessions - continually push industry for better inclusion - and better security

wordpress

Let’s get salty!

Because I’m on a roll today, so far I’ve broken 4 things today, including wp-cli, and Local by Flywheel. However I want to talk about what salts are, and why they are important, and how I found out about them. The below tweet, and its thread, has all

xdebug

Getting Xdebug working on php 7.2 and homebrew

In which I tell how I got Xdebug working on homebrew php 7.2 and Laravel Valet and PhpStorm

laravel

Laravel 5.6, SFTP, connection hygiene, and you!

Laravel 5.6 introduced SFTP as a Storage method. Do you know whether it closes the opened connections or leaves them hanging? Read this! (yes, it does close them)

learning

This weekend I was learning Go, set up a pi-hole, and was doing data rescue

Busy weekend of learning Golang, rescuing data from unreadable disk (ongoing), and setting up an online ad blackhole.

wordpress

On fixing embedded content in WordPress

How to use a custom wpcli command to fix broken links in all content across your entire WordPress site.

advanced

You don't need web sites to base64 decode things. Or to format JSON

Instead of using free sites to do encoding / decoding / formatting of data, you could be using the command line. Here's an example of base64 decoding and pretty formatting json.

advanced

Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour, WP_Rewrite?

WP Rewrite is dark voodoo magic. I screwed up, so you don't have to!

development

Here are 3 ways to help you load test your websites

Do you want to know where your server's breaking point is? Read this and use one of them to find out.

wordpress

Loading templates in WordPress and WooCommerce

WooCommerce has a number of functions to load different templates. I describe what they do and how they're connected in this post.

advanced

Why is the list of log handlers in WooCommerce an array?

This is going to be as much a help for me, as, I hope, it will be for you. So WooCommerce 2.7 3.0.0 introduced a new way to handle logs, which is brilliant. There are two pieces to it: the logger class itself, and the log handler

laravel

Re: Laravel / Spark and their token authentication system

A few days ago I wrote a rather lengthy article about how I modified Spark’s built in token authentication system by extending / replacing some of the classes, adding columns to the table it created, and renaming things. I haven’t had much time to actually implement the authentication part

laravel

I Modified The Token Authentication in Laravel / Spark!

Okay, that was yet another case of “programming by next error thrown”. It was frustrating. But also hilarious. Hilarious in the sense that I can’t believe how much code I had to shovel to implement something seemingly simple. Background: I set up a Laravel / Spark project. Out of the

woocommerce

The Curious Case of WooCommerce Shipping and the Hackiest Code I’ve Ever Written

We all have those moments when sizing up a programming problem. It usually starts with this: But really, how hard can that be? Turns out, it can be pretty damn hard. A Tale of Recalculating Shipping Currently on a client project one of my tasks included recalculating shipping costs for

woocommerce

New pet project: WooCommerce cloud logging

WooCommerce 2.7 introduced a new class for handling logging. The handler itself can be replaced, which is awesome. The default handler creates log files on the server and stores the entries in plain text. The trouble I have with that: it's kind of hard to get access to the

meetup

Scaling WooCommerce talk at WooCommerce London on 23rd May 2016

Let me start by expressing my shock: Slideshare is owned by LinkedIn Slideshare has no idea what to do with keynote files Hence this blog post. You can grab my slides by clicking this very link (it will open a dropbox link in this window, but will not begin downloading