The new Alexa Skills Kit Developer Console is fab and a lot of things have changed since I developed my first skill in 2016, one of the changes is skill…Continue reading
How to Deploy OpenFaaS Serverless PHP Functions
If you follow Alex Ellis on Twitter one acronym that you will have been seeing a lot in your Twitter feed lately is FaaS. Alex is a pretty smart chappy…Continue reading
Magento 2 theme blank SASS parent and child setup and installation
With CE 1.9 Magento introduced the SASS stylesheet language to aid frontend development. With Magento 2.x for reasons best known to the developers they switched from SASS to LESS. At the…Continue reading
Docker Magento CE v2.4.x Development Deployment with PHP7.4, Apache2.4, REDIS, VARNISH, RabbitMQ, Scaleable
Installing Magento 2 in a development environment can be time consuming. This is my Magento 2 development deployment for Docker which can be used to quickly create a new Magento…Continue reading
Docker Mono Host Magento 2 Service Scaling and Dynamic Load Balancing with VARNISH
As I started building Docker service container images for Magento 2 CE development I got interested in the concept of dynamic service load balancing on a single host. Having already…Continue reading
Docker Mono Host Service Scaling and Dynamic Load Balancing with NGINX
Whilst building containers for Magento 2 I came across the docker compose scale command which allows you to easily duplicate and scale containers running a service in Docker. For example…Continue reading
How to run FHEM as a Docker Container on a Raspberry Pi
I use FHEM as the engine for home automation tasks on my Raspberry Pi. This is how to build and run FHEM as a container in Docker on your Raspberry…Continue reading
Windows Server Essentials Connector Doesn’t Work After Windows 10 Upgrade
The Windows Server Essentials Connector is software that lets you connect your PC to a Windows Server 2012 R2. Most commonly it is used by small businesses to connect clients…Continue reading
How to use Amazon Cloud Drive with Owncloud
Amazon offer cloud drive storage for photos free for Amazon Prime customers. For less that 10 yoyos per month you can upgrade to an unlimited cloud drive storage plan. Yes,…Continue reading
Migrating PHP Web Applications to Docker Containers
I have been working with PHP for about 6 years now and my first public facing development server is about the same age. It started life as a 32 bit…Continue reading