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  • From Instagram Archive to PHP Website

    From Instagram Archive to PHP Website

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThree years ago I stopped using Instagram because I was tired of seeing influencers and adverts rather than by the people I chose to follow. The cherry on the cake, that pushed me to dump Instagram is when they changed the location of the Post button from the left corner to the…

  • Laravel and Context

    Laravel and Context

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is value in studying Laravel and context. By this I mean that over a year ago I wanted to study Angular but after feeling lost in Javascript I decided to take a step back, to study JavaScript. I studied two or more courses over a period of months. I could have…

  • Laravel and Chirper

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I used Laravel to code a Twitter clone called Chirper via the tutorial you can find here. The tutorial took about two hours before I got the notifications section of the tutorial. The tutorial is easy to follow and with my contextual knowledge I was able to write most of the…

  • Learning About Laravel and PHP

    Learning About Laravel and PHP

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I started to follow a course where someone turns a static html page into a Laravel blog. I experimented with home.blade and one or two other features and I got two pages to load, and the login to work, without more than that. What makes today’s learning and experimenting interesting…

  • Conservation and PHP

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I have struggled with PHP. I struggled because I want to recreate the same table using loops with PHP as I did formatting with HTML. If I wasn’t up for a challenge I would let PHP loops format it according the default and I’d be done. In the end I did…

  • A Rainy Day Without Walking

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday the weather app said that it would start raining at 1500 so I didn’t go out for a walk. In the end the rain started at around 1630 or even later. I could have gone for a walk and I could have come back dry or almost dry. For years…

  • A Shift to PHP

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesPHP has been around for decades but I learned of a way to experiment with it easily recently so that is why I am playing with it now. The main page is php as is my first “blog” although it was part of a column for the student newspaper, that I converted…

  • PHP from the Command Line

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I learned that PHP has a built in server. You don’t need xampp or any of the other solutions. All you need is terminal open, have the current directory be the one with the PHP files you want to serve and type: “php -S localhost:8000” This might sound obvious to…

  • Learning To Code By Building CMSs

    Learning To Code By Building CMSs

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s easy to use Facebook or other CMS every day without thinking about how the code works. This summer I have coded two CMS using Linkedin Learning. One of these CMS was running with PHP and MySQL and the other was running with Ruby On Rails and MySQL. The PHP CMS In…

  • 2020 – The Golden Opportunity to Be A Recluse

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    Reading Time: 4 minutes2020 – The Golden Opportunity to be a Recluse. If you’ve ever wanted a reason not to be social then open society’s behaviour, in regards to the COVID-19 virus, has provided us with a fantastic opportunity to enjoy being reclusive. During a normal Spring and Summer I would be driving to the…