Gmail lets you Send emails from a different email address or alias so that If you use other email addresses or providers, you can send email from that address via…Continue reading
Magento 2.2.X Development and Upgrades
Today (2nd May 2018) Magento released Magento CE 2.2.4. Recently the Magento Devs have been pretty busy pushing out 2.2.x updates and Magento 2 is maturing nicely. I am still…Continue reading
Simulate and test your Alexa Skill with the Alexa Skills Kit Command Line Interface (ASK CLI)
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
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