Recently, I encountered a weird issue with coroutines in Kotlin. A library that references a coroutine version that differed from my Kotlin’s coroutine could not compile. It resulted in the following error being displayed.
Cannot access 'kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope' which is a…
I recently ordered and shipped in a 16TB hard disk from NewEgg.
Some of my friends recommended me to buy an external hard disk, send to a forwarder and then ship it to Singapore. This is indeed a more affordable…
The following shows several examples of creating units or illusions in DotA 2 modding. This is with regards to server sided modding (custom games in DotA 2). It uses Lua as a language and requires some prior understanding of DotA…
Here’s a condensed list of things that happened in PHP world during September.
Change in error reporting
In PHP 8, “error_reporting=E_ALL” will be the new default. Currently, PHP uses “E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE ” for error reporting.
Laravel 6 LTS released!
Great…
Here’s a condensed list of things that happened in PHP world during August.
PHP 7.1.31, 7.2.21, 7.3.8 Released
Earlier this month, PHP team announced the availability of PHP 7.1.31, 7.2.21, 7.3.8. Please note that PHP 7.1 is on security fixes…
The default cf ssh without parameters allows users to access their containers or virtual machine just fine. However, there are limitations to this.
In PHP buildpacks, the default SSH will not load dynamic libraries such as curl. The following commands…
In the recent versions of Cloudfoundry, the command cf v3-zdt-push was made available. This is a form of blue green deployment that handles a lot of hassle for you. Previously, you would have to use tools or write script to…
This post shows how I do blue-green deployment of my Laravel project, that has a queue runner, through GitLab CI onto Pivotal Cloudfoundry. You’ll need to know some basics of GitLab CI, Laravel and Pivotal Cloudfoundry to better understand this…
Laravel workers requires a separate application to be spun up as its health check type, route and commands are different from running a Laravel application served through HTTP(s). In this post, I describe considerations to take, problems that you might…
The latest PHP 7.3 has introduced several core changes and deprecation of functionalities. One of the most important change is that the cyclic Garbage Collector has been enhanced. This may result in considerable performance improvements for your average PHP site.…