Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Nov. 26, 2020
I've been asked a few times about supporting Laravel Homestead on Apple Silicon, specifically the new M1 ARM architecture. As I mentioned in the Github issue I'm not currently planning on supporting Apple Silicon because I have no intention of buying an M1 laptop anytime soon. Between the cost of a…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Sep. 26, 2020
Real World PDF Generation Last month we covered the basics of PDF generation by focusing on the FPDF library. We generated a custom PDF by placing cells on the page and adding data to those cells. FPDF is a relatively low-level library in comparison to modern libraries which may do more of the heav…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Sep. 24, 2020
Introduction to PDF Generation In early July 2019 I asked Reddit What questions do you have about generating PDFs w/ PHP? (Research for an article) : PHP and I was pleasantly surprised at the genuine answers and feedback I received (as opposed to the normal nonstop trolling that Reddit is usually…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Sep. 10, 2020
The Workshop: Run Amazon Linux Locally by Joe Ferguson Amazon Linux 2 Amazon Linux 2 is the current generation of Linux provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) specifically for use in its ElasticCloud (EC2) platform. Amazon Linux evolved out of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS ecosystems. If…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Sep. 5, 2020
The Workshop: The Road to 7.3, Part 2 by Joe Ferguson Last month we explored the world of static analyzers Phan and PhpStan to find compatibility issues any several other common issues in our PHP Easy Math code base. This month we’re going to review our code base and implement new and recent featur…
Written by Joe Ferguson
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on Sep. 4, 2020
The Workshop: The Road to 7.3, Part 1 by Joe Ferguson Last month as I was writing “The Workshop: Producing Packages (Part 3)” I had a feeling I would end up regretting the line “This will be the third and final installment in this series”. Sure enough I have one more topic I want to cover: upgradin…