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• Unique Laravel Prefixes

  Published on 23rd March 2023

  I came across a confusing and frustrating problem with Laravel that might catch a few people out. I have a single server running both the staging and production versions of the same Laravel-…

• 95th Academy Awards Nominations

  Published on 11th March 2023

  Following on from my review of the 94th Academy Awards, here are my thoughts on the awards for the 2023 edition. 2022 was an outstanding year for exemplary movies, as reflected in the nomina…

• Digital Preservation: The Websites

  Published on 8th March 2023

  This is the final post in my series of broken links and digital preservation. From a how-to guide to resurrecting old websites, code fixes and storing them on the web. Below are some of the…

• A February Website Update

  Published on 3rd March 2023

  February has been a bumper month for content on my little slice of the Web. Here are some numbers… I watched 23 movies with a runtime of 39 hours. I reviewed 7 movies, writing over 1,205 wor…

• Movies in February 2023

  Published on 1st March 2023

  Following on from my previous movie summaries, this is my February 2023 review. Overall, I watched 23 new movies this month, taking the total for the year to 47! I went to the cinema to see…

• Digital Preservation: Code Fixes

  Published on 28th February 2023

  In my blog post about how to do digital preservation I covered setting up a legacy PHP project using Docker, building a static version of the website and then deploying the HTML to GitHub Pa…

• Digital Preservation with MySQL

  Published on 27th February 2023

  In my previous post about using Docker and scripts to build static versions of your website, I used a very basic project that didn't use a database. A few of the projects I was restoring nee…

• Digital Preservation How-to

  Published on 24th February 2023

  I have been doing a small part of digital preservation for some of my legacy projects. Restoring old projects that were built many years (decades) ago is no easy task; supported versions mov…

• Using Native PHP Enums

  Published on 22nd February 2023

  It is often common practice to use 1 or 0 values for columns in database tables. As a developer, I equate these to true and false and modern frameworks such as Laravel allow you to easily ca…

• Refactoring my Laravel Project

  Published on 20th February 2023

  My website has been on Laravel for a while and it has grown a lot over the last year. There weren't (m)any tests nor did the codebase have any static analysis or code style restrictions. Whi…