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

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

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