Friday was the last day working at the Cogneato offices until this coronavirus blows over.
Continue reading post "Cogneato to work from home due to COVID-19"WWW posts page 12
Short domain intro card
To make use of the short domain I bought recently (macn.me), I came up with the concept of a business card-like intro landing page.
Continue reading post "Short domain intro card"PHP zend_mm_heap corrupted error
We were getting errors on our server where certain pages or even sites would occasionally or frequently show errors for no apparent reason.
Continue reading post "PHP zend_mm_heap corrupted error"Vagrant on Mac El Capitan problem
I recently tried to install vagrant on a Mac OS X.11 (El Capitan) machine, but ran into trouble.
Continue reading post "Vagrant on Mac El Capitan problem"Checking if WordPress post has more
WordPress offers the has_excerpt() method to determine if you create a separate excerpt on a post, but does not seem to have a built in function to ask if it uses the special comment <!--more--> for an excerpt coming from the beginning of the post content.
As if Amazon was celebrating my recent purchase of the domain <macn.me>, which reminded me of Mac and Me, they added the movie to Amazon Prime this month.
Continue reading post "#2684"I had to manually force renew the TLS certificate for my site (the thing that makes it encrypted over HTTPS) because of a bug in LetsEncrypt’s software.
Continue reading post "#2674"Short-domains bought
I finally made it happen: I bought a short “vanity” domain. Two, in fact: <macn.me> and <tobm.me>.
Continue reading post "Short-domains bought"Last night, I decided to finally take the plunge and buy a short vanity domain I had been considering for several years (2b1.me), only to find it had been purchased just 48 hours beforehand, at the very registrar I was planning to use (Porkbun).
Continue reading post "#2656"PHP: Fallback for old constructor style
In versions of PHP before 5, constructors were functions with the same name as their class. PHP 5 introduced the __construct() unified name, and has deprecated the old style in PHP 7. Cogneato still has code remnants from long ago, with the old style. I recently worked on improving the compatibility of our old code with PHP 7.