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me@grafxflow

06 Aug, 2024

PHP MVC

Laravel Migrations nullable and constrained - and in which order?

When creating the foreign key migrations in Laravel, a short syntax is constrained(). With that, it's easy to make one mistake related to Column modifiers.

me@grafxflow

12 Jan, 2024

PHP MVC

5 Reasons Why Online Coding Assessments May Be Considered Ineffective

This is exceedingly clear. When did anyone last find it necessary to resolve a secondary school mathematics problem in a real-world professional context? This is what a majority of coding assessment platforms are asking candidates to do.

me@grafxflow

11 Jul, 2023

PHP MVC

Laravel, Docker, Breeze and ReactJS easy startup

Here is another nice easy tutorial about creating an easy setup for a user login and dashboard using the breeze startup kit with laravel, docker and reactJS.

me@grafxflow

06 Jul, 2023

PHP MVC

Laravel, Docker, Breeze and VueJS Advanced CRUD - Part 2

This is a continuation of the Part 1 of the Laravel, Docker and Breeze but this time using more advanced options for the Users Soft Delete CURD example.

me@grafxflow

21 Jun, 2023

PHP MVC

Laravel, Docker, Breeze and VueJS easy startup

Here is a nice little tutorial about creating a simple user login and dashboard using the breeze startup kit with laravel, docker and VueJS.

me@grafxflow

25 Nov, 2022

General Discussion

The Rockford Files TV Movies

I have recently started watching the classic Rockford Files TV series and then I found out about the TV Movies that were made back in the 90's!

me@grafxflow

20 Sep, 2022

General Discussion

Lost in Space 60's TV Episodes and Characters

I remember watching this back in the 90's on Channel 4 on Sundays, and always finding it funny and enjoyable to watch, so I thought I would put together an episode guide with my own personal ratings.

me@grafxflow

20 Sep, 2022

PHP and HTML and CSS

Remove .DS_Store files from the repository

It's very annoying under macOS when creating a new repo we occasionally see the dreaded .DS_Store files appear. So here is how to remove those annoying Mac OS X .DS_Store files from a Git repository.

me@grafxflow

15 Jul, 2021

General Discussion

The Rockford Files TV Episodes

I have recently started watching the classic Rockford Files TV series. So here is a list of the episodes and the characters with a picture from each episode for quick reference. It's still a great watch!

me@grafxflow

21 Feb, 2021

Website Server

How to delete all the lines of text files with vim

This is a quick command line snippet for anybody wanting to delete all the lines of code of a text file when editing it in the terminal using 'vim'.

me@grafxflow

15 Nov, 2020

Mac OS X

Disable macOS 11 (Big Sur) 'kernel_task' which is throttling the CPU

If after installing macOS 11 (Big Sur) your mac is running slow and the 'kernel_task' is throttling the CPU then the solution could be to delete the system extension IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext. WARNING... this should be the last resort!

me@grafxflow

22 Apr, 2020

Website Server

How to install GitLab CE with Vagrant on macOS

In this tutorial you will be able to install 'GitLab Community Edition' locally on your mac using an Ubuntu vagrant box. And so be able to store your repos locally.

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me@grafxflow

15 Nov, 2020

Mac OS X

Disable macOS 11 (Big Sur) 'kernel_task' which is throttling the CPU

If after installing macOS 11 (Big Sur) your mac is running slow and the 'kernel_task' is throttling the CPU then the solution could be to delete the system extension IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext. WARNING... this should be the last resort!

me@grafxflow

15 Jul, 2021

General Discussion

The Rockford Files TV Episodes

I have recently started watching the classic Rockford Files TV series. So here is a list of the episodes and the characters with a picture from each episode for quick reference. It's still a great watch!

me@grafxflow

22 Apr, 2020

Website Server

How to install GitLab CE with Vagrant on macOS

In this tutorial you will be able to install 'GitLab Community Edition' locally on your mac using an Ubuntu vagrant box. And so be able to store your repos locally.

me@grafxflow

07 Apr, 2020

3D Animation

Shadow Catcher plugin in Cinema 4D Advanced Compositing - Part 2

Learn how to use Advanced Compositing with the Cinema 4D (C4D) Shadow Catcher plugin in order to separate objects and shadows.