After my short stint with Phone Gap, I thought I’d give cross-platform development another shot with Flutter/Dark. I followed the Flutter installation instructions which looked straight forward apart from the few issues I ran into below. I had issues installing Intel HAXM wherein Hyper V was detected as enabled even though it was disabled on […]
I never learned how to use Subversion which is why publishing my work on WordPress becomes such a chore. Thankfully, I found a script that can deploy a local Git repository to WordPress.org. This script assumes you have the following setup and working in your Windows environment already: SVN, in this case I use TortoiseSVN […]
After developing on WordPress, I decided to contribute back to the community by creating a free plugin for WooCommerce and Square users. You can download the plug on WordPress.org or fork the source on Github. It’s basically allows you to filter fulfilled payments made to your Square account within WordPress and import them into WooCommerce […]
I recently came across malware in my WordPress installation even though I am running the latest version of WordPress and not running any other plugin apart from JetPack. I tried removing the malware and updating all the WordPress files only to get infected again a few days after. So Far these steps have mitigated the […]
I encountered some errors compiling old projects using my old node workflow which turned out to be the result of a lot of the packages being deprecated.
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gyp ERR! stack Error: Can't find Python executable "python", you can set the PYTHON env variable. |
Luckily it was an easy fix, I simple had to install the Windows build tools, then I was back on track.
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npm install --global --production windows-build-tools |
I decided to try Linode Cloud hosting for 10USD (500PHP) a month. You get a high performance VPS which can run several sites for cheap, the only catch is you have to set it up and maintain it yourself. Here’s what I did to get mine up and running in a couple of minutes: I […]
This is an update to my previous setup I wrote about on: How I build my assets pipeline on Windows using NodeJS. This time around I use Gulp to simplify things and add more automation. First up, you’ll need to install gulp globally (npm i -g gulp) if you haven’t yet, then install it in […]
Some node modules have too much dependencies that break the WIndows NTFS file system e.g.(node-sass, gulp). There were articles mentioning that Windows 10 has removed the the limit to the maximum path length but I for one still encounter the problem… and for some reason the rm -rf command doesn’t work anymore. So I use […]
Since NodeJS works off the Windows’ shell (command prompt) I find myself needing to open the terminal (cmd.exe) more often now. Here are several ways I open the Command Prompt in a specific location within Windows Explorer on Windows 10. method 1: simply navigate to the desired folder within Windows Explorer and type cmd in […]
I develop on Windows 10 (currently) with NodeJS, I am assuming you are running both already. Below is a bare-bones list of modules i use: browserify – this allows my to write my JavaScript in the NodeJS convention as well as concatenate multiple JavaScript dependencies like jQuery and GSAP. uglify-js – this will allow me […]
Here the web development environment I have setup on my laptop. It’s simply a run-through and short tutorial of the things I use for those of you who are interested in getting into the web development scene. To start of, here’s a list of apps I use: WAMP – This basically has everything you need […]
You will need to digitally sign your apps for release if you want to install them on your device for live testing. If not you will get a parse error when installing. We will need to use the keytool from the JDK to create a key we can use to sign our apps whenever we […]