I’ve accumulated a number of tech stories from various projects over the years. I thought I’d write some down and share. This first one… I’ve told the highlight portion during interviews years ago, and it probably comes across as either total BS, or me seemingly not knowing what I’m talking about, or what not, but … Continue reading “speed improvement story 1”
Small note, mostly for myself, as a reminder that when doing large imports of data, you may not need each block to be processed as an Eloquent model. That code above would generally be faster as Obviously there are even faster ways – preparing your data in some text format, and using your DB cli … Continue reading “laravel bulk imports”
There are a number of UI toolkits in the JS (and specifically VueJS) space. BootstrapVue, Vuetify, VueStrap, Ionic, Quasar, ElementUI and more. I wrote a post some time ago (which may get recovered at some point!) about some of these, and indicated I’d be diving in to one or more at some point, and… I … Continue reading “VueJS wrapping UI toolkits”
I took a look at blueprint last year-ish, and… held off. It was a bit too new for my comfort level, but still looked quite useful. A couple months ago, I took a fresh look, and planned to use it for a new project. I got things set up, generated models and tests and whatnot … Continue reading “laravel blueprint factory fix”
Many moons ago my earlier version of my blog had this list I use when spelling things for people over the phone. I managed to find it at archive.org and thought I’d repost… a as in aisle (or aye) b as in bdellium c as in czar d as in djibouti e as in eight … Continue reading “k as in knife”
So… I wrote a previous post about how to prevent duplicates, but this post is about a different type of duplication problem. I encountered this issue about 18 months ago, and asked around, and few people seemed to know what I was talking about, and I don’t specifically see it mentioned in the docs. So.. … Continue reading “Laravel is sending duplicate emails!”
Well… here we are. 10 years later, and … no backups. Or… none of the data that’s important. Recently had a drive crash in my main server where this blog is hosted. Had it happen 2 years ago, but the data was recovered, and I put everything on automatic backups. Using virtualmin, a great control … Continue reading “Importance of backups”
Holy tamole… Have been wrestling with a client project using ‘plupload’ with a user base consistently uploading files from 150-500meg on a daily basis. They’d been uploading to youtube/vimeo mostly, because the experience with the older uploader (still plupload earlier version) was bad – slow, mostly, but some issues about determining whether items were uploaded/processed … Continue reading “chunked file uploads with plupload”
I stumbled on an article from Matt Galligan about the initial versions of Cir.ca, a news aggregator app from a few years ago that recently closed up. So the article talked about many of the design ideas they had, and the struggles they worked through before changing or abandoning some ideas. This is an example … Continue reading “Avoid features vs abandoning them”
When building any site that will interact with Facebook, you need to have a user connect their Facebook account with your site. You create an app listing on Facebook, get some handshake tokens, put them in your code, then have a user initiate a connection between your site and their Facebook account. The initiation is … Continue reading “Facebook app permissions bummer…”