Starts with a 500 nginx error, three days ago, when settling down to do a quick update to a wordpress theme. What have I learned or clarified so far? Valet is a lightweight Mac development environment for Laravel, which is a php framework based on the model–view–controller application approach. Valet+ is a fork of Valet … Continued
Client wants his DVD published to his video streaming website. First I worked for a while with effmpeg, but kept getting errors. ffmpeg -i concat:VIDEO_TS.VOB\|VTS_01_0.VOB\|VTS_01_1.VOB -vcodec libxvid -q:v 5 -s 640×480 -aspect 640:480 -r 30 -g 300 -bf 2 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 160k -ar 32000 -async 32000 -ac 2 ~/Documents/Clients/Client/test.mp4 [ac3 @ 0x7fae3c027400] exponent 25 … Continued
iExplorer is a great app with which I can load my iPhone as an external disc. It was crashing after OSX upgrade with following issue: sshfs requires libfuse.2.dylib error with iExplorer. I was able to solve it by installing osxfuse. With homebrew: brew cask install osxfuse
Checking all wp_posts for a specific string: SELECT id, post_title, post_status, post_type, SUBSTR(post_content, LOCATE(‘your search string’, post_content) -1, 100) FROM wp_posts WHERE locate(‘your search string’, post_content) > 0
Client needs to automatically import data from a Google spreadsheet into a Custom Post Type. I wrote up a quick (largely borrowed) python script to convert to Google Spreadsheet to a CSV file with the desired headers. Found this pro plugin from Smackcoders called WP CSV Import Pro, which can run the CSV to CPT … Continued
So I started with a super minimal .travis.yml configuration file: sudo: false language: php php: – ‘7.1’ How could that fail, right? Not. Travis needs something to do, so it defaults to running phpunit and if you run phpunit without any tests in place you get an error. So there needs to be some kind … Continued
http://gitready.com Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub
As a freshman in Roots.io University, I’m still flying by the seat of my pants. Backing up website database and files to Amazon s3 as Ben Word does seems like a more interesting approach than using a service like Updraft Plus, Jetpack or Infinite WP, so I’m giving it a go. Beginning with Ben’s configuration … Continued
Trellis, as of sometime in 2016, simplified the way users it generates the MySQL database and user: USER will be named example_com DATABASE will be named example_com_environment If you, as I had done, end up changing site name in one place or another you may get a message that Ansible couldn’t connect to the database, … Continued
Could this help?