diary of a cat in human skin
So today, I finally decided to upgrade my laptop to the latest PHP version as of this writing, which is 7.1.4. Now, some people were wondering why they skipped version 6. When I went to the PHP Conference Asia 2015 in Singapore, Rasmus Lerdorf himself told us in his keynote speech that they intentionally skipped …
As my birthday approaches and as I’m nearing 31, I was reading about Software Developers on their 40s up and found this interesting article. I witnessed how my father wrote programs when I was young. He would blankly stare at his laptop for minutes, writing things, then deleting them, repeat & rinse. I thought it …
Overnight Bus Visiting Shirakawa-go village, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been one of my places to visit in Japan. The village can easily be accessed when you have a JR Pass. You just need to be at JR Takayama station and from there, you can ride a bus going to Shirakawa-go village. For us though, we didn’t have …
Lubo Range, Ngusong Kabayo, Tangwa Peak Last weekend, I hiked the Laiban Circuit trail in Tanay, Rizal. In this trail course, you get to summit 3 mountains and descent 4 waterfalls. The first ascent is the Lubo Range, then Ngusong Kabayo (Horse’s muzzle), and lastly the Tangwa peak. After assaulting these peaks, you need to …
Last November 2016, my manager wanted to celebrate her birthday in an orphanage. However, since the Christmas season was near already, almost all the orphanages within Metro Manila were full already. We saw the Tribes & Island tour by Mad Travel PH about an outreach in an Aeta village in Yangil, Zambales.
Strengths Finder 2.0 My manager gave me a book entitled “Strengths Finder 2.0” by Tom Rath. I don’t know what it is but the first order of business is to answer some questions on the website in order to determine your Top 5 Strengths. The survey was quite long and the questions are situational and it …
I’m fairly new to Unit Testing using Codeception. I did some Test Plans and Execution some 4 years ago during my stint as a Software Design Engineer in a Japanese company. I pretty much enjoyed gathering all test scenarios, from Normal to Semi-Normal to Abnormal cases.
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I have 2 domains now since I acquired www.ridvanbaluyos.com. I was using the ridvan.baluyos.net for almost 6 years now and has been riding on to my brother’s hosting. I just thought it was about time I buy my own and go on independent. My older domain (or subdomain) has more hits and is getting crawled …
This is an old trick and there are tons of how-to’s over the internet. I’m posting this for my own reference but it might help some developers looking for this solution. Okay, so here’s the problem. I have a dedicated server hosted at DigitalOcean and all it gives you is the IP address and a …