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Essential Visual Studio Code Libraries for 2020

Published on 26/01/2020

OS X has been fortunate to have always been blessed with great development tools, from the ubiquitous Xcode IDE - still arguably the best…

Using Gatsby As A Blogging Tool

Published on 01/02/2018

The old version of this website was built using Jekyll. Jekyll is a popular static website generator which uses Ruby to parse markdown/HTML…

Disabling MySQL Strict Mode on OS X

Published on 07/03/2017

Another useful tidbit for someone (or possibly my future self). MySQL did not like the default value for my datetime fields when running an…

Fixing Uglify Errors With Babel

Published on 06/03/2017

Whilst I am a huge fan of ES6, and I use it in my newer projects, I ran across an error today that proved troublesome to resolve (partly as…

Commercial Licenses for NPM Packages

Published on 21/12/2016

When creating new projects, the standard package.json file usually contains a MIT License or similar – but for those of us (Evil Capitalists…

Punterest v1.0.1 Update

Published on 28/04/2016

Our new App Punterest is still in its infancy, and we noticed that in the first release there was a few bugs in the registration and login…

Punterest hits the Apple App Store

Published on 04/04/2016

After a couple of weeks of development, and a few false starts, v1.0 of our joke and pun sharing community App Punterest is finally…

Remove all traces of git from a directory on OSX/Linux

Published on 07/02/2016

Run this on the Terminal in the folder if you want to recursively remove all traces of Git from a directory. This will remove .gitignore and…

Setting Up Expression Engine Under NGINX

Published on 14/01/2016

I am a big fan of Expression Engine for standard CMS style needs, the only issue is that the .htaccess for mod_rewrite will obviously only…

How to Enable POST to Static Pages Running via NGINX

Published on 26/10/2015

I am creating a Facebook Canvas Application, and I wanted to use AngularJS to power the dynamic aspects of it as I need to have a two way…

vi - Command Not Available in This Version

Published on 14/10/2015

Had a few headaches with vi today, turns out it wasn't reading the .vimrc file, and then that opened up another can of worms... Do all of…

Using String Variables in SCSS File Paths

Published on 13/10/2015

When creating this blog, I wanted to use a variable for the file path to my font files, whilst straight forward enough, I couldn't find a…

API Design: PUT vs PATCH

Published on 09/10/2015

I was writing an API and couldn't decide which HTTP verb to use to update an object. So this is just a quick post to clarify the difference…

Keeping Elastic Beanstalk configs in code

Published on 09/10/2015

I am a huge fan of Amazon Web Services, especially Elastic Beanstalk, and I love how easy it is to spin up and cast aside instances. When…

Returning Custom Headers With Hapi JS

Published on 08/10/2015

This article refers to an older version of Hapi and the server configuation is now handled differently, but the gist is still the same. I am…