Customise the status bar of Android devices running Android 5.0 Lollipop using this plugin. You can customise the colour for all pages, with specific colours for Posts and Pages.
Android, Android 5.0 Lollipop, PHP, WordPress, WordPress PluginsBy now, your WordPress blog or website should be GDPR compliant (the law came into affect today). WordPress 4.9.6 makes it easy for you to fulfil some of your GDPR obligations by providing owners with new tools.
Data Export, GDPR, WordPress, WordPress PluginsThis tutorial shows you how to create a wildcard SSL certificate using Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt launched wildcard certificates in March 2018, so the process is relatively new.
Command Line, HTTPS, Let's Encrypt, Linux, Security, Server, SSLAmazon makes it really easy to send SMS messages worldwide using their SNS or Simple Notification Service. This tutorial shows you how you can send a SMS in less than 10 lines of code. This particular example uses composer to install the AWS SDK.
Amazon Web Services, PHP, SMS, TutorialIn a recent project I’ve been building a Customer Service Portal where “agents” are allowed to perform certain actions on a user’s account. One of the required features was to send a password reset email to the user. Luckily, this feature is easy to implement thanks to Laravel’s built-in traits.
Laravel 5, Security, TutorialHaving a strong password policy for your application is a important security requirement for any application. This tutorial shows you how you can apply this to Larvel’s PasswordController, which handles password resets.
Input Sanitization, Laravel 5, Laravel 5.2, PHP, SecurityThe Apache Cordova documentation is rather good, but occasionally you encounter information that is either out-of-date or missing entirely. One such instance is the ability to delete a file when using the File plugin – the documentation for this function is missing, so to help others, I’ve included some sample code to achieve this.
Cordova, JavaScript, TutorialThis week, I bought myself a brand new 2017 15″ MacBook Pro, upgrading from an early 2013 15″ MacBook Pro (with Retina). I was able to migrate all my data in a matter of hours, and this is the process I followed (using Thunderbolt 2 to USB-C).
Apple, MacBook Pro, MigrationMaster the Git commands using this useful Cheat Sheet. Printable PDF version included, covering everything from creating a repo to make changes, and working with branches.
Cheat Sheet, Git, PDF
