Debugging PHP Applications

This is a tutorial on how to configure debugging for any PHP web application using PHP Storm, Vagrant and X-Debug. One of my web-development workflows involves using Vagrant with a LAMP stack on it. The vagrant configuration I use is based on this: Vagrant LAMP stack. I’ve used this method over a dozen times this … Read more

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PayPal's Pre-approved Payments

Regardless of what many people think of PayPal, I still use it for a lot of my online transactions.Recently I had to stop a few recurring payments on PayPal but it took me a while to find the right page. I’ve written this as a reference for the future me – and anyone else looking … Read more

Shane & Erica’s Wedding

I attended my friend’s spectacular wedding in Toronto a couple years ago (as a guest) however I couldn’t resist filming some highlights and providing them to Shane & Erica as a short sneak-peek from their day. I enjoy doing these short videos when I attend important events with my camera. Highlight Film Frame Grabs

Quick WP BackUp Script

I’ve been doing a lot of wordpress development on *nix based machines over the last couple weeks and I’ve been needing to quickly archive and backup my work everyday. I wrote this little bash script that quickly does the backup of the wp-content directory and uses the WPCLI command to export the database. I’ve named … Read more

Memorable Moments of 2017

2017 has been an eventful year for me and my family. We travelled a lot as a family: to Cuba, to British Columbia and attended a lot of weddings as well as capture them – part of a new venture I wanted to try out. I also left my full time freelancing job to spend time … Read more

Monitoring With Monit

On my quest to exploring simple monitoring tools for server processes, I stumbled up Monit. Here’s my short write up on how I got it working.

Installing Laravel 5.5 On CodeAnywhere

CodeAnywhere is a great cloud IDE to create web apps but it lacks that latest install of Laravel. So I used the latest PHP stack as my base and then installed the latest version of Laravel 5.5 with additional packages. Basic Steps to Install Laravel 5.5 Create a new Container (Hook up a Bitbucket or GitHub … Read more

Vashti's Visit

It isn’t Everyday that I get to see someone from my side of the Family on this side of the world!