In my professional activity, I've been faced with the following requirement: process each line of a CSV file and make a POST API call to upload a document.

One line of the CSV contained information that needed to be communicated to an API service, and each line corresponded to a PDF file. So if there are 1000 lines in the CSV file, I have to make 1000 API calls to upload 1000 PDFs.

I wrote my script in Linux Bash and then it was time to optimise: not just one API call at a time, but as many as possible.

Let's how we can start more than one task at a time using Linux Bash.

Yesterday lunchtime, while chatting with a friend, he highlighted a simple fact: explain the easiest way in the world to start a Joomla project with Docker.

The aim is to hop, hop, copy/paste a file, hop, Joomla is launched and you can start playing with the site.

Let's take a look; not in detail, but right to the point.

If you think writing unit tests in PHP is fun, stay in the room; the rest of you please leave. And then everyone leaves, including the person who asked the question.

Writing “old-fashioned” unit tests with PHPUnit is so boring that almost nobody does it.

And for some time now, https://pestphp.com/ has come along and totally changed the way things are done.

Pest is a wrapper around PhpUnit so, for instance, every command line arguments supported by PhpUnit can be used for Pest.

As you know, VSCode is highly customizable; you can install plethora of addons, change the default theme and use your preferred font.

Just take a look on the JetBrains Mono font. This is a free of charge font, for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.

In addition to the fact that it is particularly legible, making it much clearer to distinguish between an O (the letter) and a 0 (the number), between an I (upper-case I) and an l (lower-case l); JetBrains Mono font comes with nice ligature elements.

In this article, we're going to explore some tips for using Git more easily by customising the ~/.gitconfig file.

We'll create a new git undo command to abandon the last local commit.

We'll see how to share Windows Credentials manager with Linux, to have multiple credentials based on your folders structure, ...

We'll also see how to better works with branches like sorting them by commit date instead of their name, to automatically prune (remove) old branches or to force the creation of a new branch on the remote.

In my previous post, I've illustrated how to start Firefox or GIMP in a browser. This was the first part of this series about graphical user interfaces because, until very recently, I didn't know it was possible to run GUIs with Docker and that's just amazing.

So, using Docker, we can start Firefox or GIMP or even ... Doom 2.

In this blog post, we'll create our own xeyes Docker image, then play with Firefox and Gimp.

In a future article, I'll be covering a subject I've just discovered: the possibility of running graphical interfaces in Docker and, therefore, having a Linux application running in Windows.

But first, let's take a look at a few graphical interfaces, such as Firefox or GIMP (image processing software), which can be run as if they were web applications.

There are plenty articles on the Internet but I didn't find the one that allowed me, without an impressive amount of trial and error, to find the solution.

So here's another article to add to the long list: how to access a private project stored at Github when creating a Docker image. In other words, the SSH key is not stored in the image. Docker will just use your key when executing the project recovery layer (the one containing the git clone instruction) and will not keep track of the key afterwards.

The WinSCP FTP client support scripting as we can read on https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation.

In a previous life, I was often faced with the need to download a certain type of file, e.g. connect to an FTP server and retrieve PHP files locally for analysis.

Since WinSCP allows automation, it's easy to write a little script to do just that.

As an example, we'll thus download any .php files from a host.

In a previous article, I've explained how to run a static HTML site in seconds.

The result was a site running on your computer; using http. Let's go one step further and learn how to configure Docker to use https i.e. SSL and encryption.

In this article, you'll learn how to use Apache, nginx and PHP on your machine and be able to start https://localhost.