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I definitely have a skill issue in that I don’t work within the Windows server ecosystem very much. If given the choice, everything I do is Linux based. I’ve recently taken on a project where the existing hosting was Windows and they’re running a Laravel app. Access to the machine is via a VPN connection. I had tried sharing the web root on the dev machine and editing it locally...
As part of my ongoing efforts to use Go and AI as much as possible, I recently came upon a project where a client needed to translate large text files to another language. They had been using an online AI service to do this manually. However, the issue was that it took a long time and they struggled to put the text back into place since they could never translate the whole block together. I had...
I’m not sure if I was just incredibly green or if the process has gotten significantly easier but releasing apps to the App and Play store is not nearly as big an ordeal as it once was. Thankfully, xcode even manages keys for you so iOS is arguably easier to work than Android. However, deploying Android apps is still a straight-forward process. In it’s infinite wisdom, the YouTube...
It’s not uncommon for a new developer to join a project and be required to set up a local dev environment. Depending on the company, there may be little instructions about how they want him to do this. More often than not the most straight-forward way to get this dev environment up and running is to install an XAMP server, then download the latest files from production and copy...
Recently I started working on a fairly complicated, high-volume Magento website. This website had a development and a production server and the client was juggling several different modifications at once in an effort to boost their sales and improve the customer experience. The problem was, that there was only one development server and they would often like to go back and forth...