What are next-gen image formats?

Published 21st June 2021 - Updated 21st June 2021

Google Page Insights is a useful tool used to report on the performance of webpages on both mobile and desktop devices and provide suggestions on how the page can be improved. A common suggestion many websites are given is ‘Serve images in next-gen formats’, but what are next-gen image formats? Next-gen image formats provide superior […]

React JSX Error – Adjacent tags must be wrapped in an enclosing tag

Published 15th June 2021 - Updated 15th June 2021

React is a popular and powerful library used by developers across the world. Initially released by Facebook in 2013, React has seen widespread adoption for its faster rendering, stable code and its helpful developer tool set such as the React Developer Tools browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. However, there are a number of reasons […]

What is a CDN and should you be using a one?

Published 11th June 2021 - Updated 15th June 2021

In this post, we are going to take a closer look at how CDN’s (Content Delivery Networks) work and what the advantages and disadvantages are of using a CDN to delivery your users static assets such as images, CSS files or JavaScript files. You will learn what a CDN does exactly, how it can prevent […]

How to create email pixel tracking in PHP

Published 14th May 2021 - Updated 18th May 2021

When creating email campaigns, its important to know how many recipients actually opened your email. Most mail champaign tools such as Mailchimp and SendInBlue use a technique called Pixel Tracking. In this post, you will learn how to create email pixel tracking in PHP. Note: This method requires the recipient to have downloaded images on […]

Change PHP version of Ubuntu, Linux

Published 7th May 2021 - Updated 18th May 2021

In this post we will show you how to change PHP version on Ubuntu, Linux. This also works on WSL. Follow this guide to setup Windows Sub System for Linux. For this example we will be changing our PHP version from PHP 7.4 to PHP 5.6. This is a common change if you need to […]

DBeaver error Communication link failure

Published 30th April 2021 - Updated 18th May 2021

Help! DBeaver fails to connect to local MySQL database with the error “Communication link failure”. The problem isn’t with DBeaver, in fact, if you installed another MySQL GUI tool, this issue would still occur. The solution below is for Linux systems and Windows systems running WSL. This post also assumes you already have the correct […]

How to prevent Chrome and Firefox auto filling password input

Published 9th March 2021 - Updated 18th May 2021

Do you have a user management page where users are able to update their account passwords? Do you have form validation which checks a password field against a confirmation password field but the validation fails because the browser has auto filled the values? In this article, you will learn how to prevent Chrome and Firefox […]

Exclude your IP Address from Google Analytics

Published 8th March 2021 - Updated 18th May 2021

Google Analytics is a great tool for tracking your website traffic, analysing trends and seeing the fruits of your labour if your currently trying out a new marketing strategy. However, if your like me and on your website a lot, the last thing you want is to unintentionally pollute your Google Analytics data. In this […]

What is an IP Address and how to find yours

Published 3rd March 2021 - Updated 18th May 2021

You may have heard the term “IP Address” and not sure what it actually means. In this article you’ll learn what an IP Address is and how to find yours. In short, an IP Address is a unique string of characters that identifies a device over a network. Every device that connects to an internet […]

How to Upload and Download files to and from a Linux server over SSH

Published 2nd March 2021 - Updated 18th May 2021

Its common place to need to upload and download files to and from a remote Linux server. To upload and download files from a remote Linux server you can use the scp (secure copy) command. To download a file you can use: To upload a file you can use: scp /path/to/file/your/uploading username@ip-or-server-name:/path/to/location/to/upload/to Note: It is […]