Written by Jason McCreary
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on Oct. 11, 2020
One of the initial posts I wrote for creating a local development environment on macOS was installing PHP my admin. Initially I have done this by including it in my own project files and adding an Apache virtual host configuration for it. Or at least a install it in the route web directory making…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Oct. 11, 2020
One of the initial posts for creating a local development environment on macOS included a section for installing PHPMyAdmin. These days I tend to use some thing like TablePlus or Sequel Pro plus to interface with MySQL. But sometimes I like to fall back on a handful of browser tools. Call me old sc…
Written by Jason McCreary
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on Oct. 4, 2020
I recently switched to using Docker for my local development environment on macOS. While I normally interact with Docker through my local environment, there are times where I need to jump in to the running container and mess around. I created a command which makes it easier to interact with these…
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on Sep. 27, 2020
I recently switched to using Docker for my local development environment on macOS. I've been pretty happy with it. But a tiny paper cut has been jumping into one of the containers. Since each time I start my local environment the container IDs change, I'm always having to run docker container ps,…
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on Sep. 5, 2020
I've been putting this post off for while. For the last 8 years I've held one of the top search results for Installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Mac OS X. It wasn't until installing macOS Catalina that I began to move away from the preinstalled development tools I had preached for so many years. Th…
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on May. 13, 2020
After working on hundreds of Laravel projects, a common regret I see is the use of inheritance. While inheritance is one of the pillars of object oriented programming, it's actually less beneficial when used alongside a framework like Laravel. One of the drawbacks is that you inject a layer of sepa…