I was asked to write a script to delete images more than a day old from a directory, and to provide instructions on how to set this up as a cron job/cron task. So this is step by step, assuming you have no knowledge of how to do it…
I have been working on a web service to communicate with another server for a client. Guzzle is the client the AWS services use, and in this particular project, this is already installed, so is a natural for the task. The purpose of this article is to point out a…
This is an issue that pops up occasionally when you have firewalls and dynamic IP addresses. The firewalls allow your IP though for security (blocking all other conections), but then your IP changes and you are denied access to your database. The development environment I am currently using is one…
We have begun coding via test driven development in the current project I am on. It is a dicipline that results in well written, "clean" code that works and has the added benefit that when changes are made in the future, the tests can be re-run to check that nothing…
I am currently visiting the Spotted Rock Cabin. It snowed here briefly Thursday, just enough to enjoy. Last night, the sky was clear and I pulled out the 4.5 inch telescope. I had a good look at the moon, and could very clearly see Jupiter and it's colorful stripe…
Over a year ago, I built an automated bio-diesel processor based on Graham Lammings GL Eco-System design. Here is a picture of the machine: I wanted to automate something, and I have been driving vehicles on vegetable oil, so to have fun, I designed and built the processor. To date…