Jefferson Raga Salunga jrsalunga

Free disk space when `/boot` is full (Ubuntu)

TL;DR

dpkg -l linux-image*
uname -r
sudo apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.32-{21,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44}-server
sudo apt-get autoremove

Conventions:

Defining Eloquent model (will assume that DB table named is set as plural of class name and primary key named "id"):

class Shop extends Eloquent {}

Using custom table name

protected $table = 'my_shops';

This is no longer a bug. I'm keeping the gist for historical reasons, as it helped to get it fixed. Make sure to read the notes by the end of the post.

How to remove hide the select arrow in Firefox using `-moz-appearance:none;`

TL;DR (or, the fix)

Set -moz-appearance to none. This will "reset" the styling of the element;
Set text-indent to 0.01px. This will "push" the text a tiny bit^[1] to the right;

Creating PDF thumbnails in PHP

Install Ghostscript

Download and install right version of ghostscript. In my case my PHP was x86 architecture, so I download Ghostscript 9.14 for Windows (32 bit).

Enable ImageMagick

Installing Xdebug for XAMPP with PHP 7.x

New: XAMPP - XDebug Setup for PHP 8

Requirements

XAMPP for Windows: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019

Setup

#Steps to install latest Laravel, LEMP on AWS Ubuntu 16.4 version. This tutorial is the improvised verision of this tutorial on Digitalocean based on my experience.

Install PHP 7 on Ubuntu

Run the following commands in sequence.

sudo apt-get install -y language-pack-en-base
sudo LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zip unzip

	#301 Redirects for .htaccess

	#Redirect a single page:
	Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://www.domain.com/pagename.html

	#Redirect an entire site:
	Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

	#Redirect an entire site to a sub folder
	Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/subfolder/

	<?php

	public function routeClass()
	{
	$routeArray = Str::parseCallback(Route::currentRouteAction(), null);

	if (last($routeArray) != null) {
	// Remove 'controller' from the controller name.
	$controller = str_replace('Controller', '', class_basename(head($routeArray)));

	# Compiled source #
	###################
	*.com
	*.class
	*.dll
	*.exe
	*.o
	*.so

	# Packages #

	<?php
	/**
	* This snippet goes into your
	* \app\Http\Controllers\Auth\AuthController.php
	*
	* Make sure to update your login view as well
	* (\resources\views\auth\login.blade.php). Just
	* change
	*/