Are you one of those Laravel developers who is having trouble authenticating their freshly created users by calling Auth::login() method? Then continue reading this. If you are using a non-incrementing primary key for your user table, there is a high chance that you have trouble with authentication sessions in Laravel. This is especially the case […]
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Press & Hold Accent Menu is missing on Mac
I really like how it is to write non-English words with a Mac keyboard. just like smartphones simply holding on a key that has different possible accents triggers a small menu where you can select a different accent/umlaut. Yesterday I found out that for some reason this feature is no longer working on my Mac, […]
docker-machine for better Docker on OSX
A while ago I published a blog post about Dockerizing my php development environment, soon after that I learned about the poor i/o performance of docker-containers on MacOSX. While that is manageable for small projects where there are not much I/O happening between multiple containers, I was stunned by how bad it could get after […]
LaraDock: Dockerizing my PHP Development Environment
As a PHP Developer I’ve always had instances of webserver, php & database server running as first level services on my Development machines. I can claim that configuring LAMP (recently LEMP) stack was always one of the first things I’d do when I get a new machine. I’ve been using Docker for running other services […]
run quick ad-hoc tasks using Ansible
Ansible with no doubt is one of the most popular tools that its name always comes up in every discussion about DevOps Automation. Its no joke that Ansible does its best when it’s used against an inventory of infrastructure containing nodes with designated roles and tasks. at my work I often find myself in need […]