I’ve recently started using PHPSpec to drive my testing efforts in a new Laravel project. The behaviour-driven approach makes a lot of sense to me but I am finding it a little difficult to master.
This post provides a fix if you find PHPSpec throwing Class not found errors after running your test suite on the command line.
I recently had an issue with Google Drive which resulted in a large number of duplicate files and folders being created.
Fortunately, using linux command line provided an easy way find all these files and move them to another folder whilst retaining their directory structure.
I don’t really celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, aka Paddy’s day. However this does not mean that it doesn’t irk me to hear people call it Patty’s Day or St. Paddy’s Day.
There now follows some rambling thoughts about nationalism and patriotism.
Finishing work late in the evening and trying to get to sleep soon thereafter is not a good idea.
Word to the wise – make sure to give plenty of time between finishing work and actually going to bed – and don’t go checking your work email just before bed, that just re-activates all those thought processes.
Here’s a quick guide to batch optimising your website’s images to decrease page load time for your website visitors. It’s easy and only takes a few minutes.
I’ll be looking at two useful Linux command line tools – jpegoptim and optipng – and showing you how to use them and how to batch process all images in a folder (and sub-folders).
Internationalisation can be a major headache: language, date formats and measurements. Here’s how to convert crazy “feet and inches” to centimetres and back.
Google Docs is a simple but powerful collaborative document editor and you can make your usage even more efficient by using this simple keyboard shortcut.
I’ve been sharing a storage disk between Windows and Ubuntu for the past while and randomly encounter the following issue sometimes when I boot up Ubuntu and try to mount my Windows storage drive.
MySQL character sets and collations can cause problems. Here’s some advice on how to change from one collation type to another.
Yes, Bank of Ireland values their business customers’ privacy so highly that they’re happy to reveal the email addresses of hundreds of their customers. Nice work BOI!
