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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
performance How I improved a query for our plugin by several orders of magnitude This is going to be super developer heavy. 99% of the article is going to be about SQL, so don’t really expect PHP or javascript things. Background We’ve been getting support
wordpress What happens on wp_insert_post()? This question came up in the Advanced WordPress Facebook group in the form of whether we should be using direct database inserts when converting non-WP data to WP data, or use the APIs.