Step 1: Install Homebrew

Homebrew is the missing package manager for macOS.

As per the Homebrew site, paste the following in a macOS Terminal prompt.

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

This acton will install Homebrew on your OSX.  Using the following command you can check the brew version

$ brew -v

Working with buttons

To begin, what is a button in SwiftUI?

Setting up the mail configuration in October CMS is a quick progress.  Depending on which mail method you use there are up to eight fields to complete:

Don't worry this is an issue that many Drupal developers have come across. In particular it raises its head when you add a subdomain.  Your Drupal website is only showing a plain white screen with “The provided host name is not valid for this server" on it. What does it mean and how to fix it.

If you are receiving the following 403 errors:

• "message": "The used authentication method is not allowed on this route."
• "message": "This route can only be accessed by anonymous users."

Then keep reading for how to resolve them.

Attempting to log in to a Drupal site using REST API and I had to battle a few head winds along the way.  What is worse, they were self imposed!

Creating a new account in Mail on OSX Big Sur (11.2) and complete the required information for:

• Email
• Username
• Password
• Account type: IMAP
• Incoming mail server
• Outgoing mail server

I receive a message "Unable to verify account name or password."

Working on a new CentOS 7 server, Node wasn't installed.  You can quickly this through using the prompt node -v

node not found

In Plesk, the extension had been installed, however this doesn't mean correctly.  So I needed to install Node and npm on the CentOS 7 server.

Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the copy [cp] command.  This came about due to 'upgrading' the server from Centos 6 to 7.  Once I had migrated a domain, I ran the following command

I had been running a few Centos 6 servers just past their EOL (30th November 2020) and it was time to kick in to action a plan I had been working on when I realised EOL was on my doorstep.

When those simple annoyances are too frustrating!  Yes we have all been there and I was really hoping that Apple would have fixed what is obviously a bug.