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All the articles I've posted.
MariaDB Apparmor and No login
Updated:As I've been messing around with Sphinx I discovered that MariaDB actually includes the SphinxSE plugin out of the box. So I figured I'd ditch my MySQL ins
The Power of Sphinx
Updated:I've only really used Sphinx as part of a home project with MySQL. But today found that searching for text in 28 million rows in a PostgreSQL table needs s
Laravel API Token Auth
Updated:The newer versions of Laravel support OAuth for token auth, but I wanted to carry on using something simple. Just a token stored in the user table and some
vi - Visual Mode
Updated:I'm sure when using a mouse in a text terminal the visual mode of vi/vim is useful, but I can never figure it out. In fact it prevents me from copying from
bootstrap-tagsinput
Updated:I've got a work project that fills in a database field with multiple comma separated values and thought using the bootstrap-tagsinput script would fit very
Bootstrap Tags Input and Typeahead
Updated:Both of these add-ons I forget what they are called. So when I go looking for something that does a multiple select type option in a HTML form I struggle t
Google Home and Kodi
Updated:I thought I'd take the opportunity to add a Google Home to my gadget collection. After all it's on a £50 off same this week, so comes in at £79 delivered.
PHP7.2 and MSSQL Drivers
I upgraded to PHP v7.2 on my Debian Buster/Sid today. Not a problem until I realised I'd broken my Microsoft SQL Drivers.
XmlWriter and Encoding
Updated:This could have saved me some time today! http://hoolihan.net/blog-tim/2008/10/02/utf-8-encoding-with-xmlwriter-and-a-stringbuilder/ I'm new to PowerShell
OLEDB Reading a : Delimited Text File
Been a long while since I used VBScript - I guess I should get more familiar with PowerShell, but there's a simple project that requires a script change th