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Installing a Godaddy SSL certificate on Exchange 2013
You may or may not be surprised at how many people are still using Exchange 2013. They still need SSL like every other public facing service, so here's how to do that. In this situation we are assuming the Exchange serve
Magento 2 Time Savers
We all get tired of WET coding (Writing everything twice). Here are some excerpts from my which save me a lot of time. These are specific to Magento development via CLI, mostly. General Extract a tar to a specific direct
Renewing a RDS/RDG SSL certificate with Godaddy SSL
This is a quick walkthrough on how to do this. This was written for Windows server 2012R2, but should still be applicable to 2016 and 2019 as well. This is specifically for an RDG (Remote Desktop Gateway) server. Your on
Extract Exchange message tracking logs with powershell
Exchange makes it kind of difficult to do complicated reporting without third party tools. This post will show how to extract the message logs useful data. For the purpose of this post, we are not actually on the exchang
Transfer Exchange message tracking logs to Mysql with Talend Open Studio
In short, we are pushing a csv into a database on a schedule using Talend Open Studio as our ETL tool. For this post though, we're getting specific with exchange tracking logs, as this was a fun task I had once so it's a
Magento 2 Data Patches
Data Patches; They're awesome. Before 2.3, Magento used Install and Upgrade scripts to modify your schema, and other things. This has been deprecated in favor of a much easier (I think) declaration schema. This new mess
Xdebug 3 and Magento 2
Xdebug you should use it Xdebug is an extension for PHP, and provides a range of features to improve the PHP development experience. This post will focus on the feature we use most often Step Debugging as well as configu
How to ... Entities Part 1
A very common question in Magento development is How to bla bla entity(ies) . I find myself doing this from time to time as well, either out of laziness or because I've run into something quirky. Have you noticed how the
SITREP 02 2023
Hiya! I haven't contributed to my own darn blog in a while now so I figured an easy way to get back into things was just to write a little update. Pivot! Pivvott! I've been hard at work for Relias and loving it. While I
MeiliSearch Manager
So I built this thingy is an open source, drop in, direct replacement for Algolia. A lot like Klevu, this tool allows us to stand up a powerful search and index engine to make our frontend experiences better. Meilisearch
Ten n8n tips
n8n is a new ish ETL tool I've been using for the better part of a year. It's built with Typescript and Vue, and is Open Source, self hosted and free. Their cloud offering is a good price compared to the alternatives wit
The Silo Problem
What is The silo problem? The silo problem is a name I'm using for any knowledge or experience based bottlenecks in projects. How many of us dread family encounters for this reason? The same idea applies in modern techno
Intro to n8n - how to work with a spreadsheet
This is a little course I made to help those new to n8n. It has three parts: Upload a spreadsheet to n8n Change the data in the spreadsheet Download the spreadsheet Pretty common stuff, but the n8n.io docs and courses ma
All about Meilisearch
In four videos this post covers stuff for leadership, security, and devs. If you work in web development, take a look at this. It's a very cool piece of tech that makes life a lot easier. Intro <div style="position: rela
Meili-Manager Update!
This is Meili Manager, a Quasar app built to help manage your Meilisearch instance(s). It's been a little side project of mine for a few weekends. I've made some posts about it already, but this post is around the time t
Migrate and Sync Craft CMS data in minutes with n8n
Using Craft CMS Built in Graphql explorer Feed Me Craft Plugin n8n We can move almost any data between environments, public or not, in just minutes. Recently I had some tasks at work that inspired this. Primarily How do
Extract GraphQL calls from a browser for debug in Postman
TLDR: You can right click copy as curl right from devtools, and paste into postman for on the spot debugging! For this all you need is a browser with devtools, , and a GraphQL call. So, you have a moody or misbehaving Gr
Persist n8n community nodes on docker through updates (UPDATED 04-30)
TLDR via an , using a Docker image, will lose community nodes every rebuild. We can "persist" these custom packages by using a Dockerfile as our App service context rather than the docker image itself. There is other way
How to Extend Craft CMS html purifier with html5 elements
TLDR To extend the out of the box htmlpurifier element definitions, use a custom module ( to get a empty module quickly), and tap into the event , utilizing the following snippet in your module's method. To make this eas
Intro to n8n.io
Introduction to n8n.io In today's fast paced digital landscape, streamlining repetitive tasks and integrating various applications and services is essential for optimizing productivity. This is where n8n.io shines — a po
DDEV setup for Magento 2 local development
Configured for Varnish, RabbitMQ, and Cron. An overview of starting a DDEV project, and also using an existing one, that I am sharing. Intro Local development environments are always a challenge. Until you find one you l
Scrape FB and IG with n8n
And copy, store, and present the data! Intro and Overview What is this thing? At We Adopt Greyhounds (WAG), a non profit greyhound adoption group, an awesome feature has been implemented that allows website users to brow
Magento 2 REST API with n8n
The generic HTTP node, M2 API authentication, and some tips. Overview This is a quick overview of how to use the HTTP node to connect to the REST API. I'm using the , but there is also GraphQL and any custom endpoints yo
Breaking changes from n8n v1.0+
If you're like me and use n8nio/n8n:latest in a dockerfile you probably know this already. I broke it I was lazy, and didn't update my primary n8n.io instance until this morning. To all those that may use my repository,
DDEV Bash Aliases
Do you have your aliases set up in your DDEV project? You should! Here's a quick guide to setting up some useful aliases for your DDEV projects. Create the file In your DDEV project, in the .ddev directory, create this f
Disabling 2FA in local Magento 2 development
There seems to be some confusion around how to disable 2FA in a local Magento 2 environment, or, more specifically, how difficult it is. It's just one command I'm not sure why modules out there exist for this. So I thoug
Profiles, Bashrc, and Zshrc
Let's talk about profiles. Something I don't see used often enough is profiles. Sysadmins, Support, and even Developers/Engineers that I've worked with would give me a raised eyebrow when I would ask if they have that sc