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I finally bought a 10.5" iPad Pro (Affiliate Link).

Running unit tests in Laravel, I was getting this error: ReflectionException: Class Tests\Unit\Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException does not exist The issue was a missing root backslash, make sure you have expected exception like:…

As a developer, I am lucky that I get to work from home as needed.

I upgraded PHP to version 7.0 on an Ubuntu box.

After 3 years, I am using Laravel again at work.

My biggest takeaway from this book was that most people start a business to create a job for themselves.

Puerto Rico was one of those trips where you just walk around with your camera and let the island show you what to shoot.

I learned of Mark Manson through his blog, especially this post, 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Purpose.

I signed up on a few microstock sites hoping to recoup some of the cost of my camera.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield.

First time in Hawaii and it did not disappoint.

Now that I have a new fancy camera, I have tried to organize my photos better.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams (affiliate link) comes up on Hacker News a lot.

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I have been playing with OpenShift for the past several hours.

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Photos from a trip to Las Vegas.

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One of my earliest trips with a camera.

Slow Motion Workout # The technical term is 5/5 Cadence (5 seconds up, 5 seconds down).

Are you tired of checking data in your code before inserting?

Just spent 3 hours debugging a session bug in my webapp.

Query Saving is a feature of CI’s database class that stores the results of every query in memory until the controller is finished executing.

I tried to login to my server tonight but kept getting the following error message: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host The fix was simple, at least if you have access to the server via cPanel.

I am not sure if this works anymore or not.

Using sar, you can also collect all performance data on an on-going basis, store them, and do historical analysis to identify bottlenecks. via 10 Useful Sar (Sysstat) Examples for UNIX / Linux Performance Monitoring.

A creative photography project exploring themes of reading, thoughts, and nature.