Today was largely uneventful as I’ve been experiencing issues with the server this site resides upon. After much back and forth with my host, I have a feeling that there’s something wrong with the GD library for their PHP 7.2…
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PSR-4 autoloading is the standard mechanism by which Laravel loads classes. I hit a few stumbling blocks as a relative newcomer to PSR-4, I’ve now got a good hold on this and have my Laravel powered WordPress REST Cache plugin…
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Over the weekend and at the start of this week, I’ve been doing some customisation work for users of WP Google Maps, as an authorised 3rd party developer. Code Cabin have been kind enough to pass me customisation jobs which…
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I’ve been following this article today on how to get Laravel setup in the context of a WordPress plugin. The WordPress plugin is a REST cache which is based on software I’ve already written the core of, I wanted to…
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Yesterday marked my last day with Code Cabin after nearly four years as the Lead Developer on their flagship software suite, WP Google Maps. I’ll be writing a short blog post about the plugin, specifically what work I’ve done with…
Continue ReadingPackagist, Laravel and more
I’ve submitted my new DOMDocument library to Packagist, so it’s now available for installation via Composer. I’ll be setting that aside for the time being. My next focus will be on learning Laravel. I’ve had a little commercial experience with…
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I’ve previously written an extension of PHP’s DOMDocument library, which I’ve used for many, many different projects. I’ve been looking at Symfony and Laravel recently and it appears that whilst they do offer a DOMCrawler for working with DOM, both…
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As part of my drive to move into general frameworks and out of WordPress development, I’ve been looking to transition into Laravel by integrating Laravel into a WordPress plugin. There is an interesting article on this as well as an…
Continue ReadingLinux, Typescript and more
This week has presented some interesting challenges outside of my usual work. I’ve been working with Linux (Ubuntu 20.04) this week a lot as I work on a small Magento 2 project. Windows, my usual operating system, is not officially…
Continue ReadingGulp & SASS
I’ve used many, many build pipelines and pre-processors before but for this particular project, I was looking for something simple so I’ve been brushing up on Gulp over the weekend. I’m also dipping into SASS for the first time which…
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