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Why connect an EC2 Instance to ACM and ALB? The standard compute instance on AWS is called EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). EC2 instances are a…

This is a quick guide to setting up a static website on AWS S3. Not only are we securing the bucket with our bucket policy and bucket…

I needed to set up instances running PHP 8 a few times to test that my WordPress plugins and composer packages work on PHP 8. I also have…

This is a look at a composer package that returns an SVG graph from an array of data: shortdark/socket composer package. There may be better…

When I learn a new language, or write something in a language I don't use very often, there are a few ways to go about it. I guess, often we…

I am a web developer living in Sheffield, UK who has mainly been developing websites in PHP. My Career Timeline 1999 Taught myself HTML, CSS…

I look up everything before I use it. An IDE such as PHP Storm has the PHP docs built in so can tell you a lot of the information you need…

Coding that is simple yet powerful allows you to get many different problems solved. As such, using regex is one of my favorite coding…

The actual CSS is no longer in this post, it has been moved here Bart Simpson Head Animation How did we manage before smartphones? The other…

I was having trouble finding a WordPress plugin that would give me an Accordion on a particular WordPress website. Either jQuery was not in…

Disclaimer for 2021 and Beyond In case anyone should read this article and get the wrong idea here is my disclaimer for 2021 and beyond…

In this post, we looked at some ways to tighten up security and increase the speed of websites in modern times. How to Implement Security…

When you first build a website the database may seem fast. All your queries may get executed quickly. But, after a while when the database…

This is a simple step-by-step guide to making a PHP composer package that can be listed publicly on packagist.org for anyone in the world to…

To create a bash script that will work only for your user, you can store the bash files in your user's home directory. The standard place to…

Trying to connect to use AWS S3 for the first time can be confusing. Here is a quick guide to roughly what has to happen. Basic Steps to Set…

I had a PHP website that was the last man standing on some shared hosting that was slow that didn't have SSH access. I decided that since I…

AWS Lightsail is the closest thing AWS has to shared hosting. It is their quick, easy and inexpensive off-the-shelf hosting that has SSH…

Once upon a time you could buy a domain name and hook it up to some cheap, shared hosting and that was all you had to do. You could build…

Here are some tweaks you can make to various parts of Linux to make the whole experience a little easier and more intuitive. This guide is…

2022 Update This post was written in 2018 and while I think most of the article still applies, there are other methods to deploy a WordPress…

These days there are often WordPress apps on the control panel of hosting providers that enable you to install WordPress easily with a click…

Previously, I looked at setting up Debian 8 with PHP 7.0. But now, Debian 9 is the current stable version and Debian 8 is only due to…

Following the setting up a Linux webserver tutorial. You may also wish to create a MySQL database. First, install MySQL in the Linux console…

Using a CDN is a great way to optimize your website and protect against DDoS attacks. The process of setting up a CDN is pretty simple…

Basic Steps After Installing Laravel 5.4 You have successfully installed Laravel 5.4 and you have directed the domain name at the public…

I was unable to find a single tutorial that would show exactly how to install Laravel on Debian, possibly because I was using PHP 7.0 on…

The internet is gradually becoming more and more encrypted and secure. While this is most important for websites where you might enter…

Here is a guide to Setting up a Linux Webserver with SSH. This is for Debian 8 (Jessie) although other versions of Debian will be similar…

There are 1,000s of WordPress Plugins and each one is individual, but for anyone wanting to make a plugin for themselves here are a few…

Post Volume Stats Wordpress plugin, "Post Volume Stats", is free to download here. It is a plugin to show the user's posting patterns - from…

This is currently a very simple plugin that solves the target="_blank" vulnerability, which is a security risk in that it allows phishing to…

You can see my public git repos at my GitHub profile. Some Personal Websites Here are some websites I've set up at various points as part of…