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Using Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) with EC2 and ELB/ALB — 14 April, 2023
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…
Setting up an AWS S3 Static Website with CloudFlare — 16 February, 2022
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…
PHP 8 and Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Tutorial — 17 October, 2021
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…
Case Study: Composer Package — 30 August, 2021
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…
Learning a new Coding Language — 13 June, 2021
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…
Wordpress Vs Static Websites — 30 December, 2020
I watched a lecture from "Clean Coding" author, Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob), recently. He was talking about making a website with his son…
PHP Coding Style (More Than One Way to Skin a Cat) — 29 November, 2020
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…
Regex Examples — 19 July, 2020
Coding that is simple yet powerful allows you to get many different problems solved. As such, using regex is one of my favorite coding…
Some CSS Discussion — 01 March, 2020
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…
Setting up AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Laravel to update with GIT — 08 December, 2019
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…