Fideloper

Lead dev @digitalsurgeons. I do LAMP, Laravel, Nodejs, Python, and lots of server stuff.

Articles

PHP-FIG

There's some confusion about what the PHP-FIG is. I'm here to add to that confusion.

Handling Proxies in Laravel 4

When your Laravel web app is behind a load balancer, reverse-proxy or other intermediary, you don't get the correct user IP address reported to you. This will cover how to retrieve the correct client IP address in those situations.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS LEMP Server Setup

This will go over getting an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server up and running for production use using Nginx instead of Apache. This does not pretend to be an exhaustive resource, particularly around security. This is Laravel friendly.

Vim Tricks

A growing list of Vim tricks as I learn them.

An Explanation of Caching

The most powerful cache isn't necessarily the one you install on your application server. Here are the different kinds of caching available and what they mean for your web application.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS LAMP Server Setup

This will go over getting an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server up and running for production use. Note: This does not pretend to be an exhaustive resource, particularly around security. Additionally, if your environment is more complex (Separate DB servers, servers across data-centers, different access levels, etc), then your setup can and will vary.