Over a year ago I quickly whipped up a Colored Line Formatter for use with Monolog. As I’m building colorised output into Mixed Content Scan I – finally – took the time to actually put the darn thing out in the open. bramus/monolog-colored-line-formatter is a formatter for use with Monolog. It augments the Monolog LineFormatter …
Category Archives: Original Content
Mavericks Multiple Screens vs Jumping Dock
When working with Dual/Multiple Screens in OS X Mavericks and having “Displays have separate spaces” switched on, I noticed that the dock would unpredictably switch monitors from time to time. Fed up with this I spent a Google Search Coupon on the issue and guess what: it’s not a bug, it’s a(n undocumented) feature. To …
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PHP 7: Immediately Invoked Function Expressions
PHP7 will continue to borrow some of the beloved JavaScript features and will support Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFEs): <?php echo (function() { return 42; })(); Output for php7@20140901 – 20141101: 42 Since we can already return functions from inside other functions, Currying Partial Application is also possible in combination with the IIFE implementation: <?php …
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Mixed Content Scan: Scan your HTTPS-enabled website for Mixed Content
With my recent move to HTTPS I wasn’t sure if there were any pages left on my site that had Mixed Content or not. If an HTTPS page includes content retrieved through regular, cleartext HTTP, then the connection is only partially encrypted. […] When a webpage exhibits this behavior, it is called a mixed content …
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Migrating your WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS
In light of #https2015 I flipped the switch on bram.us earlier today: from today forth bram.us is only accessible over HTTPS. If you run a news site, or any site at all, we’d like to issue a friendly challenge to you. Make a commitment to have your site fully on HTTPS by the end of …
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PHP 5.6: “Automatically populating $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.”
Since PHP 5.6, the use of $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated. Now, I’m not using this so I’m in the clear, or at least I thought I was … The default value for always_populate_raw_post_data in PHP 5.6 is doing more harm than good. Perfectly good code will spit out that error whenever it receives a request that …
In love with Ionic Framework
UPDATE: Want to get a solid introduction to Ionic? I recommend reading Learning Ionic, a book I tech reviewed. Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Built with Sass and optimized for AngularJS. Whilst Sass is just an extra (you don’t really need it), the true …
Reminder: Current Color in CSS
Reminder to self, as I seem to keep forgetting this (even after having blogged about it 3 years ago): you can use currentColor as a color value in CSS. Be it for background-color, border-color, etc. — they all accept currentColor. The value it represents is the current color, so if that one changes so will …
On Web Development and Education
This blogpost is sparked by a conversation with, and blogpost by Joris, a lecturer IMD at Thomas More. Every now and then I have a chat with a colleague lecturer, be it one from the Technical University I teach at (HUB-KAHO) or another TU (Howest, Thomas More, KDG, etc). A recurring theme in our conversations …
Getting ready for PHP 5.6
PHP 5.6.0, currently in alpha, will hit us any time later this year. Time to take a look and see what’s new. Here’s a selection of features that will affect the way you and I code. New __debugInfo() magic function (rfc) This new magic function allows you to instruct PHP what it should output when …