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The new Cowshed Works Studio is taking shape

A few months ago we gave our builder the go-ahead to renovate the Cowshed into a new creative studio

Laravel's Higher Order Messaging

These arrived in 5.4 and I didn't really pay much attention, but they're actually quite interesting when you go behind the scenes

PHP OPCache production optimisation on Laravel Forge

Laravel Forge now provides OPCache optimisation for production environments

'Do It Right' - Why Fergus the traction engine is my hero

Any fans of Thomas the Tank Engine (or parents) should know Fergus and his catchphrase

What does 'Website as a Service' mean?

Everything is offered 'as a service' these days, we offer a 'website as a service', but what does that mean?

Useful find and grep command line snippets

A collection of find and grep commands that I've used over the years

Some ls commands

These are commands that I always forget so I'm putting them here so I can copy paste them.

Some useful netstat commands

These are pretty useful for quick checks on suspicious looking traffic on your Linux server

Cloudfare bug led to sensitive data being leaked and indexed by search engines

A simple missing piece of a C routine led to a buffer overflow and what's techincally known as 'a total disaster'

Apache HTTP to HTTPS redirects don't need to be painful!

A lot of information out there on the web suggests using mod_rewrite but an easier way exists