Laravel defaults to storing all dates in UTC format, this is highly recommended as UTC time never changes unlike other time zones which have daylight savings. It is best practice to store and read dates in UTC, and then convert UTC to your required time zone for the user interface. Great article below of a
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Damaged or crashed MySQL tables due to an unsafe server shut downs, disk space limits or general MySQL failures? Do a find and find and repair on your damaged MySQL tables.
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All app’s and websites these days need to work for several devices including desktop, tablets and mobiles. It’s not always simple detecting the type of device being used and it can sometimes be tedious adding support to your app for something which seems very simple. Does your chosen platform not have a pre-defined way of
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Want to Speed up your website images and improve user experience? Make sure you use progressive JPEGs (or interlaced JPEGs), it could help make your website load faster and retain visitors for a longer duration. Take a look at the example below showing a normal baselayer JPEG and a progressive JPEG LOADING side by side.
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Yes, I know it’s almost end of March, but I finally got around the finish editing the various clips together from the Xmas crawl at Bracken Rocks (2015). If you’re not aware Bracken Rocks is where the RRCI Scale Nationals (now known as RCCarZone Scale Nationals) is hosted, and the first G6 competition is to
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With work and other commitments, the D90 crawler project has come to a standstill, a lot of work has happened but we are still quite far from the finish line. Thought I would upload a number of images I have taken.
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Today I was asked by a client how they open a .Pages files using a windows. Their computer didn’t recognise the file. What is a .PAGES file? A .PAGES file is an archive technology created by Apple for use on its Mac OS, it is very similar to .zip files. They are normally created when
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Forgot your WordPress admin login details or a previous developer is unwilling to give you the WordPress login details, well the answer is very simple. As long as you have database access you can use the website below to generate a new password hashsum, simply replace the origional password value with the new hashsum and
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Another Sunday so headed out early 7.30am just as the sun was coming out, light rain but nothing to bad. Went to some land nearby as we had not crawled there in a while. Was going well until I heard a branch breaking, turned out it wasn’t a branch and instead my drive shaft link
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After some searching on the internet I have found a number of Defender D90’s which use the van / box backend type of look. I really like the look of the environmental agency vehicles with their side sliding entrance sections. Decided I am going to be aiming for something based on these images with my
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