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Cross Subdomain Authentication with FeathersJS Client

FeathersJS v4 switched from storing the jwt token in a cookie to localStorage. This was fine when the app stayed on one domain, but when splitting things out into several apps on different subdomains I realised unlike cookies localStorage does not play nicely. I

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Create React App Fix for Webpack Symlinks Without Ejecting

When restructuring my project and moving it to use Create React App I've ended up with an odd error for my shared jsx components (I've split the project into two separate apps but some of the styling and UI components will be the same

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Example of Sequelize Associations in FeathersJS

I've been playing around with FeathersJS and one thing that has been hard to find is a concrete example of setting up Sequelize with related tables. Here's an example of

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Text file busy - db/test.sqlite3

Sometimes things are just too obvious… When trying to setup the test database for my new rails app I kept getting stuck with this error message: <b>$ rake db:test:prepare</b> rake aborted! Text file busy - db/test.

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Top Level Cookies in Opera for Custom Domain Names

For our local development at work we all use the same fake domain – helps with setting API keys and other things across the board and isn’t hard to setup whatever system any new developer might have. It also happens to be not a

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jQuery Multiple Events Without Default Behaviour

Sometimes you trip over the little things. With several people working on the same page while we were recreating some JS functionality from scratch I’ve noticed one of my buttons suddenly stopped working. Scratched my head a bit, and for a minute thought

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Enable delayed messages in Zend_Queue

The default Zend_Queue DB implementation unfortunately does not allow you to pass a timeout value when saving a message on the queue. However not all is lost and you can easily extend the standard Zend classes to add that functionality. All you need

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PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW is null

Ok, so you’re trying to setup password protection on your website using HTTP authentication. Unfortunately despite the request for password working your authentication keeps failing. If you check the output of your script and the password and username variables are not populated as

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Multiple changes and a delete on same object in doctrine

If you want to make several different changes to a doctrine record object you might find yourself slightly puzzled when it comes to deleting related objects. $user['Address']->delete(); $user['Address']->state(Doctrine_Record::STATE_LOCKED); (...) $user->save();``` It

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PHPUnit & Selenium - screenshot path problem

PHPUnit_Framework_Exception: Response from Selenium RC server for testComplete(). ERROR: Command execution failure. Please search the forum at http://clearspace.openqa.org for error details from the log window. The error message is: Component returned failure code: 0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH)

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Autloading modular forms & models in Zend Framework 1.8

It’s not really obvious with the error messages you get, but using a thing like Form_Login does not work out of the box with a modular structure. Which is slightly surprising considering that it’s inside the default module. I have found

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Doctrine Many To Many With Extra Fields

Recently I have started using Doctrine with Zend Framework. Most of the time it is great, but sometimes I get stuck on this or that issue. Most of my problems so far have been connected with the Many to Many relationship. Here are a

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Zend_Db_Select multiple table joins explained

It sounds like a simple task – retrieve the result from a join SQL query. Unusually you can even find documentation on the official Zend Framework site explaining how to put together a query that will return the results from a JOIN query. Unfortunately when

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Zend Framework Decorators - Labels and Checkboxes

Very often it is the smallest things that annoy us the most. It took me a while to figure out why the placement parameter was not changing anything. I started of with the following: 'decorators' => array( array('Label'), array('ViewHelper') ) Unfortunately switching the

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Using Zend_Mail and Google SMTP to send emails

You can set this globally, for example in your bootstrap.php file: $tr = new Zend_Mail_Transport_Smtp('smtp.gmail.com', array( 'auth' => 'login', 'username' => '[email protected]', 'password' => 'YOUR_PASSWORD', 'ssl' => 'ssl', 'port' => 465) ); Zend_Mail::setDefaultTransport(

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Wordpress NextGen gallery tweak

Recently I found myself in that very anoying situation where a very good piece of software seemed to lack just this one function… again. I have been doing a gallery website and used the NextGen gallery plugin to display the photos. Unfortunatelly it was

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Server Error 500 - htaccess require valid-user

I just spent a good couple of minutes hitting my head against the wall, trying to figure out why a perfectly good .htaccess file suddenly stopped working. AuthName "Restricted