Hello World (again)!
Welcome to my new website. It’s been a long while since I rebuilt my last one (two jobs ago, infact!), so I figured I should launch a new site and get back into the blogging…
Opening the GNOME Shell Overview with a Logitech MX Master
My beloved Logitech MX Revolution died recently, so I upgraded to the new MX Master, and I wasn’t disappointed -it’s just as awesome as the Revolution. 🙂 With the new mouse, I decided to try…
Byobu for Terminal Management on Ubuntu
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a DigitalOcean Community Tutorial. Introduction Byobu is an easy-to-use wrapper around the tmux (or screen) terminal multiplexer. This means that it makes it easy for you…
Introducing My Habits for Pebble
I am really excited to announce the release of the much awaited Habits app paid upgrade: My Habits. This upgrade brings to you much awaited and requested features, including fully customisable Habit frequencies and times,…
How To Use the DigitalOcean API v2 with Ansible
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a DigitalOcean Community Tutorial. Introduction Ansible 2.0 has recently been released, and with it comes support for version 2 of the DigitalOcean API. This means that…
Getting Started with PHPUnit in Laravel
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as a Semaphore CI Community Tutorial. Introduction PHPUnit is one of the oldest and most well known unit testing packages for PHP. It is primarily designed for…
Habits – Pebble Timeline app
I am excited to announce that Habits, my latest Pebble Timeline app has been released! Habits is the evolution of 8-A-Day, designed to help you start and maintain (good) habits through the Pebble Timeline. It…
Using Laravel 5 Middleware for Parameter Persistence
I am lucky enough to get to work on a large Laravel 5 full time in my day job, with some awesome developers.I recently came up with what is, in my humble opinion, an elegant…
Pebble Timeline Challenge Week 10 Winner – 8-A-Day!
I was very excited for my Pebble Timeline app 8-A-Day to be chosen as the week 10 winner of the Pebble Timeline Challenge. Doctors have been telling us this for years: drink 8 glasses of…
How To Deploy Multiple PHP Applications using Ansible
Note: I originally wrote and published this article as part of the Automating Your PHP Application Deployment Process with Ansible tutorial series for the Digital Ocean Community. Introduction This tutorial is the third in a…