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Andrew Fletcher
Using Homebrew for speed tests... I'm using Speediest CLI - for more details go to https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli To install speedtest CLI is is quick by running the following brew install speedtest-cliI had a few brew updates required as you'll see by the response below You have 18 outdated formulae installed. ==> Fetching dependencies for speedtest-cli: mpdecimal, openssl@3 and python@3.11 ==> Fetching mpdecimal ==> Downloading...
Andrew Fletcher
I'm in an environment where the default branch is staging and I'm attempting to...
Andrew Fletcher
How to count the number of files in a directory.  At some point you'll have...
Andrew Fletcher
I've recently upgraded the server Ubuntu 20.04 updating the PHP version from 7.4...
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the...
Andrew Fletcher
I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a Ubuntu backup shell script.  With a backup in hand, now it was time to test how to unpack a backup and overwrite the directories. First I unpacked the backup to a temporary directory tmp-cc. Now I wanted to replace several of the directories on the server.  Starting with home, var and etc.   But what is an efficient method to overwrite a directory?   Also removing any directories that aren't in the...
Andrew Fletcher
Currently, I have a situation where I have two repositories.  The first is...
Andrew Fletcher
Creating a bash script Bash scripts are files containing code that tell your...
Andrew Fletcher
Accessing a remote server using PEM key, and I had the following...
Andrew Fletcher
How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key? Is putty on your...
Andrew Fletcher
As a web developer, you will most likely need to run local copies of a bunch of different web sites. Regularly switching between several sites daily.  Sometime Drupal, other Laravel and whatever frameworks that are in your toolkit.   Install Docker and Lando Do you have Docker installed?  No, then go to the Docker Desktop page and download. Now let's look in to Lando.  Have a look at the Lando releases on GitHub to download the latest package for your OS. Run the installer. I...
Andrew Fletcher
Every project has to kick off somewhere.  Yep well that's a no brainer....
Andrew Fletcher
Currently I'm working through an app that has been abandoned by the developers....
Andrew Fletcher
I installed Lando 3.6.2 and Laravel 9.  When I visit the web page, I...
Andrew Fletcher
First off, this isn't the only method to achieve the outcome of emptying a...