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The Workshop: CakePHP Part One - php[architect] Magazine June 2018
Welcome to the first installment of The Workshop, a column where we try out new tools and techniques to hone our craft as developers. We'll be covering frameworks, packages, tools, and exploring topics related to the PHP development ecosystem. This month we're going to jump into CakePHP. CakePHP has recently released version 3.6 of their full stack framework. CakePHP started out as a...
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June 2018
The Workshop: System Management with Ansible php[architect] Magazine December 2019
Ansible is an IT automation tool used for configuring systems and deploying applications. Ansible is open source is supported in the enterprise by RedHat. Ansible communicates over SSH so there is no need to install any extra software on the remote systems. Ansible allows us to version control our infrastructure in YAML files and supports Jinja templates allowing flexibility in how we can...
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December 2018
Exporting and Importing WSL Linux Distributions on Windows 10
I've recently spent a lot of dedicated time exploring Windows 10 as a development environment. The best part of this process has been becoming familiar with Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL. With WSL 2.0 Microsoft is shipping a complete Linux kernel with Windows 10. Getting started with WSL is a few steps through the Windows Features menu to ensure you have enabled WSL services, then into...
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