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Utilising Magento 2’s CLI Possibilities
Some of you might already know this, but I’m a great fan of the command line. In web development, I use PHP to write CLI scripts more than often. They provide a great way if you need to perform quick tasks on the server, or if you want to perform tasks after a deployment. If read further ...Quick Tip : Correctly set the headers of your maintenance page
When you’re deploying updates or migrating entire sites, you probably used a maintenance screen before: a simple screen telling the visitor that there is some major stuff going on on the server and that the site will be back online in a few moments. It’s important that you don’t lose any precious SEO-value of your read further ...Magento different caching on different PHP versions
Today I tested some different configurations for Magento to see if I could boost the performance. One major aspect of this is which caching to use (internal, memcached, APC or OpCode) in combination with different PHP versions (5.3, 5.4 and 5.5). The differences in these tests are big, but is the fastest solution also the best read further ...The art of deployment – part 2
Let me be honest with you: a year ago I uploaded my websites with FTP and updated databases with PhpMyAdmin. I had very limited knowledge of SSH and how servers work in particular. For years, my main focus had been on writing good code and improving my skills as a webdeveloper. Today, not even a year read further ...Prevent author sniffing on your WordPress site with NginX
Recently, a colleague of me attended me on some… security flaws in my WordPress website. He showed me a Linux Distro called ‘backbox‘ and a tool called ‘WPScan‘ in particular. This tools allows you to scan any given WordPress site for vulnerabilities and/or exploits. One of the things it also does, is try to fetch read further ...The art of deployment
(please note, that the original dutch article I write can be found here) A website is worthless if it can’t be visited online. To achieve this it has to be uploaded to a server: it has to be deployed. Often, the task of deploying a website is thought of to be a simple thing: you read further ...How to install XDebug on OSX
As a follow-up on my previous post, this post explains how you can easily install XDebug on your OSX webdevelopment configuration, making your life as a developer a whole lot easier.read further ...How to prepare OSX for local webdevelopment
In this article, I will explain how you can setup an Apache/Mysql/Php-server on OSX for your local development. The fun part is that I will also explain how you can configure OSX so that requests to http://*.dev/ are being transfered to the right directory.read further ....htTool: a tool for creating .htaccess files
.htTool is a small tool I created some time ago to make it easier to create .htaccess files. Many times when I had to create a .htaccess file I ended up copy/pasting some chunks of code from other .htaccess-files and Googling the rest. So I thought: “Hey! It should be easier to create a .htaccess read further ...