Getting started writing an Alexa Skill
AKRABAT We now have 4 Amazon Echo devices in the house, and, inspired by a demo LornaJane gave me at DPC, I have decided to write some skills for it.…
Simple way to add a filter to Zend-InputFilter
AKRABAT Using Zend-InputFilter is remarkably easy to use: use ZendInputFilterFactory as InputFilterFactory; // set up InputFilter $specification = , ], ], ]; $factory = new InputFilterFactory(); $inputFilter = $factory->createInputFilter($specification); //…
Default route arguments in Slim
AKRABAT A friend of mine recently asked how to do default route arguments and route specific configuration in Slim, so I thought I'd write up how to do it. Consider…
Slim's route cache file
When you have a lot of routes, that have parameters, consider using the router's cache file to speed up performance. To do this, you set the routerCacheFile setting to a…
Inserting binary data into SQL Server with ZF1 & PHP 7
If you want to insert binary data into SQL Server in Zend Framework 1 then you probably used the trick of setting an array as the parameter's value with the…
Autocomplete Composer script names on the command line
As I add more and more of my own script targets to my files, I find that it would be helpful to have tab autocomplete in bash. I asked on…
Switching OpenWhisk environments
When developing with OpenWhisk, it's useful to use separate environments for working locally or on the cloud for development, staging and production of your application. In OpenWhisk terms, this means…
POSTing data using KituraNet
I had a need to send a POST request with a JSON body from Swift and as I had KituraNet and SwiftyJSON already around, it proved to reasonably easy. To…
Using CircleCI for a PHP project
For a new client project, I've decided to use CircleCI to run my tests every time I push to GitHub. This turned out to be quite easy; this is how…
Automatically converting PDF to Keynote
I use rst2pdf to create presentations which provides me with a PDF file. When it comes to presenting on stage, on Linux there are tools such as pdfpc and on…