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Mouse cursor highlighting á la Mac
For presentation purposes this is a highly intuitive way for those watching the presentation. Works only on Mac the platform for the creative ones. “just hit a configurable hotkey and the entire screen is slightly dimmed and just a circle around the mouse is highlighted. An… …more
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Certified Senior Laravel Developer
As of the start of the year 2025 i can offizially call myself Certified Senior Laravel Developer. The certification took me a lot of effort to accomplish. Other than working on my job with this framework i also read a book dedicated to this topic. In… …more
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Tip of the day: Keep docker container running
While trying to build the Laravel Sail image for docker from scratch based on the working docker file i was wondering why the container stops immediately after i started it. One line of code which is FROM ubuntu:22.04 That´s it. And i would assume, just like… …more
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Tip of the day: Laravel Sail up shows default apache page
I got stuck for a long time with Laravel Sail showing the default apache page instead of the default Laravel page. After a lot of digging i found out there was another instance of apache running which i did not consider. Some background: It is a… …more
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Upgrading MySQL 5.7 to 8 might break your old queries with GROUP BY
If your get errors at places / queries which worked before upgrading MySQL 5.7 to 8 than its a good gues you need to rewrite something like GROUP BY column ASC into GROUP BY columnORDER BY column ASC MySQL 8 removed historically non-standard behaviour which will… …more
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Moving from MySQL 5.7 to 8 and restoring DB dump of version 8
Recently i upgraded an AWS Linux server a tool of our company is running on. I moved from MySQL 5.7 to 8. The automated process of creating a backup and upload it to AWS S3 went well as usual but when i wanted to import the… …more
