OpenLampTech issue #84
Symfony-based kbin | WooCommerce or Shopify | MySQL error 1045 | Storing environment variables in Laravel. Delivering curated LAMP stack media coverage now.
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Symfony-based kbin is taking the Threadiverse by Storm
Symfony and Drupal proponent, Reuben Walker, explores more opportunities to use and support alternative social media, forum, and aggregator applications in the Fediverse. This one, kbin, is built with Symfony. Learn more about Reuben in this OpenLampTech developer interview.
Automattic Donates €20,000 to Fund Next Phase of Drupal Gutenberg Development
Gutenberg is the way of the future, apparently. I have no qualms with Gutenberg. I use it. I like it. The Drupal camp does too. And, Automattic is pitching in to make sure Gutenberg thrives in the Drupal ecosystem as well.
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Acquia Announces Enhancements to Its DXP
The Acquia digital experience platform, Acquia DXP, is adding more features to its already robust software. This latest set of updates offers marketers additional capabilities in the way of better campaign management (among others).
Most of the reasons you encounter this error in MySQL have to do with the user, the server, or connection information. I know. Pretty broad.
Be it incorrect user account credentials, connecting to the wrong host, or the client isn't configured correctly to receive connections, this error message is frustrating, to say the least.
One Equity Partners acquires cloud services provider Liquid Web and forms new holding company, CloudOne Digital (04-20-2023)
Yea, you read that date right. Back in April. More massive WordPress acquisitions/mergers. This will eventually coalesce into CloudOne Digital. I'm quite intrigued as to how or why there wasn't very much talk about this. Or possibly, I just missed it.
If WordPress gets any more scattered, for a pure blogging/content solution, I'm going to Ghost. I might do it anyway. The large gets larger while the small stays small.
In Depth: Storing Environment Variables Safely
Securing Laravel's
looks at an all too important topic: best practices for Laravel and the industry overall in storing environment variables. Laravel has a dedicated file for this sensitive data but setting and forgetting sensitive variable data information is not always the best option. Learn more from this fantastic newsletter piece.Mobile wallpapers, digital downloads, photos, development services, and content - all in one E-Commerce Shop. Find your next digital purchase today!
The Style Book: a one-stop shop for styling block themes
Unlike traditional WordPress themes, block theme styling is not stored in the typical style.css
file (or others). For block themes, the theme.json
file is where most of the styling code is kept. The WordPress Developer Blog has this nice piece on the Style Book; a single place you can set the styles for a site. Are you using/building/working with any block themes? I'm still getting my head around Astra and Elementor. 😀
WooCommerce Blocks 10.5.0 Release Notes
With this WooCommerce blocks release, you can use an alternative icon on the mini cart. Also implemented, better performance of front-end assets loading by using caching. Multiple bug fixes and more in this release so check it out and help support Woo!
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