I recently read a story about a developer who lost his GitHub account overnight. There was no explanation and he never figured out how to recover it. He was lucky that his most important repos were backed up on his computer, but it got me thinking. About a week ago my kids were playing on […]
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When using IKEv2 or any other VPN on Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, macOS) with the OnDemand feature, the VPN will automatically connect under specified conditions, such as when your device connects to WiFi or cellular networks. However, there are certain situations where you might not want the VPN to connect automatically—for example, if you’re connected
TL;DR: You need to pass the location of the local folder as a repository and then make sure you set the “–prefer-dist” value to “@dev”. Just replace everything in caps below and you are good to go! composer create-project –prefer-dist SOURCE_SCOPE/SOURCE_NAME=”@dev” NEW_PROJECT_NAME –repository ‘{“type”: “path”, “url”: “/PATH/TO/THE/SOURCE/PROJECT”, “options”: {“symlink”: false}}’ I was recently working on
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If you have ever compressed a folder on Mac and then opened it on another machine with a different operating system like Windows you have no doubt seen that there are 2 files you didn’t expect in the final folder. The .DS_Store and __MACOS files are used by MacOS, but don’t do anything on other
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TL:DR You need to become create a CA cert and then use that to sign your self signed cert. You can then add the CA cert to your system which will cause your other cert to be trusted. First some background. For years now I have had servers here at the house that are only
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So in a recent project I have been working on there has been a lot of jquery DataTables. At first I was a little concerned by this, but I must say that overall I have been really impressed with the plugin. If you are not familiar with it or just want to check it out
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So my programming pet project at the moment is a CRM-ish type application. I am writing it using primarily JavaScript/Jquery and PHP. I have never really been a huge fan of javascript, but if you want a dynamic front end with PHP power you need run PHP via ajax. So now comes the headache part.
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