PHP Web Development
Laravel Dusk was released with Laravel 5.4 and gave developers an incredibly easy API to create and run automated browser tests. However, I came across an issue while running browser tests with SQLite.
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WordPress provides filters for sanitizing and authenticating your custom post meta. These filters have been around since 3.3 — and until now — were unknown to me. I happened to be reading Tadlock’s content-type-standards repository on Github and noticed some references to register_meta().
Three years ago I created the instructional blog post Adding Meta Boxes To Your Post Type Archive Settings In Genesis. This post was pretty popular and a reader recently asked how they could add custom meta boxes to the Archive Settings page. Good question…
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All of the 2015 year in review posts have started trickling out as this year is coming to an end. I enjoy reading these, so here is my 2015.
Vagrant has been around for a few years. If you develop open source web applications, there is good chance know of it or use it. If you have yet to try it out, I highly recommend it as a great introduction into Linux.
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Enabling OPcache can improve your site’s performance by decreasing the php execution process when a script is requested. DreamHost permits a user to log into the server through secure shell with user level permissions.
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