Google search menu icons – my gripe.
Intro Google recently rolled out icons to accompany the type of searches available to users: Why use icons anyway? Icons are helpful to easily attribute […]
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Google PageSpeed Insights – my experience
Introduction Alas it’s time for me to talk about Google PageSpeed and my experience. I set myself down this path after my current employer wanted […]
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OVH / SoYouStart IP failover / alias – Ubuntu 18.04 + netplan
Introduction OVH and SoYouStart offer free failover IP’s with dedicated servers. You initially request a new failover IP address directly with OVH / SoYouStart – […]
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A practical guide to calculate your freelance hourly rate
Introduction Calculating your freelance rate or even negotiating your full time salary can be quite difficult. The more you have an idea of your outgoings, […]
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Magento Hosting – Rackspace or Peer1 or Sonassi or …
I did write quite a lot.. but just figured it would be easier to wrap this up in a few sentences. Don’t waste your time […]
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PHP-FPM – process management
Introduction PHP-FPM has a fully functional pool configuration file out of the box – the idea of this article is to explore the default configuration […]
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Networking Hyper-V & Linux / Ubuntu virtual machine internet access
You’re probably here because you want a quick and simple way of giving your Hyper-V virtual machine internet access. Look no further, it’ll take you […]
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Nginx 500 error – “/var/lib/nginx/tmp/fastcgi/*” failed (13: Permission denied)
Today I came across an interesting error with our Web servers at work. Out of the blue, users were all of a sudden experiencing Nginx […]
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Bug – Magento 2 Custom Maintenance & Error Pages
This issue affects the Magento 2.1.* custom maintenance & error pages. I came across this particular issue using Magento CE 2.1.4 which is the latest […]
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Grunt & LESS – additional Grunt watch locations
Very quickly – I’m learning how to automate generating of LESS files without the need of manually running lessc from command line (Ubuntu). A quick […]
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