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The amount of old repositories I’m deleting from my Github account is making me think how often I start new projects and never complete them. I really need to change that.
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Setting up samba share on my home network
Secure shell into file server.
Install samba if not already present:
sudo apt-get install sambaCreate samba password with :
sudo smbpasswd -a YOUR_USERNAME
Configuring the share:
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf# /etc/samba/smb.conf [media] path = /home/YOUR_USERNAME/Share available = yes valid users = YOUR_USERNAME read only = no browsable = yes public = yes writable = yesRestart samba:
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Bypassing Laravel’s CSRF Middleware on selected routes (from 5.1)
Laravel does a great job at protecting us from cross-site request forgeries – or C.S.R.F. for short.But sometimes you may not wish to have that layer present. Well with Laravel 5.1 you can very easily bypass this middleware, simply by populating an array in the following file:
app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.phpWithin this class you can add a protected property — an array — called
$except, which will tell Laravel to use this middleware except for the ones you specify here.A complete example could be:
protected $except = [ 'ignore/this/url', 'this/one/too', 'and/this', ];So for those three URLs, the CSRF middleware would be skipped.
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Every time I do a “git add .”, I feel a little dirty inside.
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Trying to get SMS posting to my website working this late at night. What was I thinking. Nearly there though I think.
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So planning and building an e-commerce CMS is harder than it seemed at first. Not that I thought it would be easy.
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100 days 2015 – 10 days in
For the past ten days I have been doing the 100 day challenge.
I decided to have a go at building my own e-commerce CMS.
I don’t have a big passion for e-commerce. In fact most of the time I work with e-commerce it frustrates me. But then I always remember hearing the old saying:
“The best way of complaining about something is to try and build something better”.
I won’t say which e-commerce CMS has me often cursing. Those who know me will know by the curses and moaning directed at it.
It feels good to be 10 days in. It’s also the longest commit streak ever on my github account.
I think the biggest thing I am taking away from my 100 day project is the learning I’m doing along the way. The outcome is kind of irrelevant at this point in time — although it would be nice to have something to show for it at the end.
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With each extra Laravel component I pull in to use, I increasing think – why not just use Laravel? I then have to remind myself that this whole thing I’m building is an experiment and a learning exercise, so it’s okay.
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Successfully pulled in Laravel’s Ioc Container package for use with my project. I love it when things just work. BooYa!