How to add composer vendor bin directory in your path
Add composer’s bin directory to the system path by placing export PATH=”$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH” into your ~/.bash_profile (Mac OS users) or into your ~/.bashrc (Linux users).
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Laravel Nginx and MySQL with Docker
Handy guide from Digital Ocean on how to set up the three containers. The only discrepancy I found was that nano wasn’t included in the containers, so you’ll have to use vim instead. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-laravel-nginx-and-mysql-with-docker-compose
Learning How to Learn: A Review
About the course Learning How to Learn is a Coursera course taught by Dr. Barbara Oakley from McMaster University and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski of UC San Diego. The course teaches proven learning techniques backed by modern science and can be used to master a variety of subject. This course gives you easy access to the … Read more
Setting Up Virtual Hosts on a Mac
I ran into some trouble running through different tutorials to setup virtual hosts while setting up a local Laravel site. There doesn’t seem to be much consensus on the developers’ preferred local environment. So here’s how to setup virtual hosts on a mac with MAMP. From what I understand this let’s you use a “virtual” … Read more
WordPress Child Theme: Easy Mistakes
How to set up a child theme There are a number of tutorials that go over how to set up a child theme. I should know by this point, but there are a few frequent mistakes that are both crucial to the setup process and that other tutorials fail to make explicit. Short-hand list for … Read more
Team Treehouse Object Oriented PHP Track Review
I finally finished the Object Oriented PHP Track! That finished everything I wanted to learn about PHP within Team Treehouse. It’s a huge milestone for me and I’m excited to move on to the next phase of my learning. But what did I think about the OOP track? In, short I felt that the track … Read more
Interface & Abstract Class Comparison Cheat Sheet
Class Abstract Class Interface Instantiated ✔ X X Extend/Implement Multiple X X ✔ Contract X ✔ ✔ Implementation ✔ ✔ X Single Place Versioning ✔ ✔ X All Methods Public (Access Modifiers) X X ✔ Properties ✔ ✔ X Constants ✔ ✔ ✔ Overridable Constant ✔ ✔ X Type Checked ✔ ✔ ✔ Abstract Class … Read more
My Experience with Team Treehouse Intermediate PHP Course: A Review
Introduction I started with almost zero PHP knowledge beyond copying and pasting snippets of code into WordPress. Team Treehouse’s Beginner’s PHP course gave me the fundamental background on how PHP, and programming in general, works. The Intermediate PHP course gave me the nitty gritty deep dive into the intricacies and quirks of PHP. Before I … Read more
SQL Cheat Sheet
This is a handy cheat sheet for simple SQL reporting. Ordering Columns Ordering by a single column criteria: SELECT * FROM <table name> ORDER BY <column> [ASC|DESC]; ASC is used to order results in ascending order. DESC is used to order results in descending order. Examples: SELECT * FROM books ORDER BY title ASC;SELECT * … Read more
Learning Progress Part II
The Progress So it’s been almost two and a half months since I started learning how to code. During that time I’ve finished the Beginning PHP and Development for WordPress tracks on Team Treehouse. Before starting another track I wanted to make sure I had integrated what I learned. So I made projects for myself … Read more