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Joe Ferguson is a PHP developer and community organizer. He is involved with many different technology related initiatives in Memphis including the Memphis P...

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joepferguson
@joepferguson Jul 31, 2022, 12:48 AM UTC

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 Laravel Settler and a run time Laravel Hom…

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joepferguson
@joepferguson Jul 13, 2020, 6:29 PM UTC

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 Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL. With…

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@joepferguson Jun 15, 2020, 12:39 AM UTC

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 has been pretty eye-opening. Especially…

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@joepferguson May 23, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

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 altcoins a bit and tried to follow the pr…

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@joepferguson Feb 27, 2018, 4:32 PM UTC

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 loaded was using the search JavaS…

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@joepferguson Feb 27, 2018, 4:17 PM UTC

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://github.com/laravel/settler/commit/07…

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@joepferguson Feb 10, 2018, 4:55 PM UTC

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 an application. What if you have a one…

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@joepferguson Feb 6, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

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 power of Z-Ray in your application with…

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@joepferguson Jan 17, 2018, 1:53 PM UTC

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 bruised The wine was bled And there you…

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@joepferguson Jan 17, 2018, 1:47 PM UTC

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 “libraries” folder with a “className.php”…

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