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Hello OctoberCMS and Laravel. Goodbye WordPress.
Monday, 13th February, 2023
This article - along with the rest of my website here at andysh.uk - is now being served from OctoberCMS.
OctoberCMS is a proprietary content management system built on the amazing Laravel PHP framework. This is a significant change for me both personally, and technically, for 2 key reasons.
Read on to find out more about OctoberCMS and Laravel.
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Solid Tools for Developers June 2021 update
Sunday, 20th June, 2021
It’s been almost 18 months – and a global pandemic – since the last update to Solid Tools for Developers, my suite of free online debugging tools for software developers and system administrators.
Today I’ve released a new update to Solid Tools which, unlike the previous update, is more evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
This post details all the changes; you can check them out for yourself now at soliddevtools.com.
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Deploying PHP applications with RunCloud on UpCloud
Sunday, 27th January, 2019
My first post of 2019 is a tutorial that’s all about the cloud.
I’m going to show you how to deploy a PHP application with a MySQL database on a cloud server from UpCloud. I’ll be using the brilliant RunCloud control panel to deploy my PHP photo gallery – Blue Twilight – to an UpCloud server.
My friends over at UpCloud have provided an awesome promo-code for free credit to try out their service. Details at the end of the article.
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Install a LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB, PHP) on Ubuntu Server
Wednesday, 11th April, 2018
Ubuntu Server is a Linux distribution that is ideally suited to server workloads. For example: hosting websites and web applications.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install a LAMP stack – that’s Apache, MariaDB (in place of MySQL) and PHP – on Ubuntu Server using the latest available releases, and how to keep it up-to-date.
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Simply Remind Me: my first SaaS application
Saturday, 18th March, 2017
It’s rare for commercial software developers, such as myself, to get to use the software we write. We rely on our users to report problems or suggest new features for the applications we develop.
Therefore when I read about a PHP development framework (Laravel) that looked so interesting I just had to try it out, I came up with the idea of an application where you tell it all the dates that are important to you, and it will send you e-mail or SMS text messages when those dates are coming up.
And so… Simply Remind Me was born.