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Building Homestead in 2022

This post has previously been published at https://joeferguson.me/building-homestead-in-2022/ There are two parts to the Homestead product: a base box named Lar...

Exporting and Importing WSL Linux Distributions on Windows 10

I've recently spent a lot of dedicated time exploring Windows 10 as a development environment. The best part of this process has been becoming familiar with Win...

Down the rabbot hole

I've been thinking a lot about the neighborhood cryptocurrency post by Luke Stokes. Reading about the ideas of decentralized organizations and self-governance h...

Getting Connected to FIO Testnet

The FIO project is really interesting to me because they’re focused on making it easier for everyday users to use cryptocurrency. I’ve dabbled in Bitcoin and al...

Fixed Docs JS error for Search on non-docs URLS

Bug Fixes - JavaScript errors from embedded Algolia search JS was looking for a docsearch element that was only on pages using the docs template. Any page being...

Add Golang 1.10

New Features - Add Golang 1.10 support to Homestead base box. - Implemented in provision script which configures the local development virtual machine https://g...

Slim PHP when you don't need the kitchen sink - SunshinePHP 2018 Conference

This year a SunshinePHP I debuted a brand new talk "Slim PHP when you don't need the kitchen sink" Description: Full stack frameworks can often be too much for ...

Homestead Welcomes Z-Ray by Zend

Since the release of Homestead version 7.1.0 and base box version 5.1.0 Homestead now supports the Zend Z-Ray plugin for PHP 7.2. You can start leveraging the p...

The Only Way Out is Through

On my deathbed I will pray To the gods and the angels Like a pagan to anyone Who will take me to heaven To a place I recall I was there so long ago The sky was ...

How to move a dependency to Composer while requiring an old version

A common problem I run into with older applications are dependencies that have been added and loaded from the application’s repository. You would often see a “l...

Using Homestead with CakePHP Framework

Interested in checking out CakePHP? You can easily spin up a new CakePHP project and add Homestead just as easy as any other modern PHP project. When I teach La...