Budget App Found a New Home: Heroku!
Come check it out at https://weirdcoderbudget.herokuapp.com
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The Phoenix Project
I recently read through The Phoenix Project and it had tons and tons of good nuggets of knowledge. “A great team doesn’t mean that they had the smartest people. What made those teams great is that everyone trusted one another. It can be a powerful thing when that magic dynamic exists.” I think a lot of…
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Magento on nginx: a surprisingly common issue
Often, Magento sites will be set up to have .html on the end of the category pages and product pages. However, often nginx is configured to treat .html like static content and “toss out” any query strings. This breaks pagination and layered navigation among other things. If you notice that pagination is not working in…
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Update! Budget App now MOBILE-FRIENDLY!
Hello all! I just wanted to pop in and let you all know that I’ve updated my budget app to the newest versions of Meteor and Bootstrap. I implemented a whole new grid system and I am happy to report that the budget app is now fully responsive and mobile-friendly. Hurrah!
Install XDebug – the quick and painless way
If you find that you need to compile xdebug from source for whatever reason, have no fear! It’s actually quite simple to get it set up and running. I can get it set up on most servers in under 5 minutes. The directions below are for a local environment. Make sure that you have git installed,…
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Debugging with XDebug – PHPStorm + Vagrant
Setting up XDebug on a Vagrant machine and figuring out how to set up PHPStorm on your host machine so that everything works smoothly can seem daunting, but it’s really easy! I’m going to go ahead and assume that you already have a development environment (LAMP, or other). Note: unless otherwise specified, you should follow…
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Beginning a music visualizer using Javascript and HTML5 canvas
I’ve been playing around with the canvas element and using JavaScript to “fake” animate by continually drawing on a canvas, moving points across it, and then “fading” the drawing out slowly within each loop by putting a semi-transparent mask over the entire canvas. There’s no music hooked up yet, but I’ve at least started fiddling…
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Another Update: Added Features to Budget App!
You can now pick the date range you want to show your budget for — no longer is it simply the next 30 days. You can adjust the date range backwards as well, just in case some of your bills or income haven’t quite hit your bank account yet. I’ve also added a…
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Update: A Personal Budget App, Written in Meteor.js
Hello all! I am very excited to announce that my first beta version of my Meteor.js budget app is LIVE! Here is my little code baby! Test it, try to break it, and let me know what you think on Github!
Nginx URL rewriting fix for WordPress
Are you using nginx with wordpress, and stumped why your category and post pages aren’t working? Here’s a really simple trick I stumbled upon that fixed my problem instantly. if (!-e $request_filename){ rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last; break; } Putting this after my “location ~ \.php$” block fixed the problem, and I was able to load…
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