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All the articles I've posted.

Laravel 5.5 HMR and Windows
Using HMR in Chrome on Linux is faultless, but on Windows HMR fails to start in the browser. Looking at the entries in the bowsers script tags they seem a

Damn that Proxy!
Updated:In Windows when you run into an application that doesn't use proxy settings and doesn't look at the environmental variable, IE or netsh settings, then you'

Cross Origin Resource Sharing and Content Security Policy
Updated:Got to love having a vendor carrying out half a job... again. Having installed a new VMWare Horizon environment for Windows 10, I thought we'd at least hav

VMWare Horizon Load Balancing
Updated:We're in the process of installing a new Horizon 7 infrastructure and as part of the process the vendor added load balancers all over the place. I asked wi

Laravel Routing Returns 302 Redirect
Updated:That was a frustrating few hours. I added a route into my api.php route and every time I visited it it triggered a redirect. I saw nothing in the browser and it was like my controller function wasn't even being called.

Debian Upgrading from an ISO File
Updated:Kind of an unusual situation, but I have a Debian jessie box that has a terrible <2MB Internet connection, no CD/DVD and the USB stick I have I don't want

Java Decompiler
Today I've been working on a problem where properties being loaded into our CRM system from a GIS DTF file are doing some strange updates. It appears that

DBeaver - SQL GUI
I've used a few SQL GUI's over the years, SQuirreL, DBVisualizer, HeidiSQL, MySQL Workbench, but the one that stands out recently is DBeaver . It's got a c

Trusting CA Certificates
Updated:This is something that catches me out regularly. Adding our CA certificate onto a Linux server. Just so it can trust the interactions of LDAP over a secure channel. It's pretty straightforward to do but bites me almost every time. The secret seems to be make sure you CA certificate is in PEM format and named with a .crt extension. A .pem or .cer extensions just doesn't cut it.

ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 Upgrade
Updated:This weekend has turned out to be a challenge. Upgrading our VMware Horizon 7 estate to the latest release involved upgrading all the components from conne