The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
This article provides a detailed walkthrough on how to use the REST API to combine posts from multiple WordPress sites. It’s also a good example of how to use JavaScript promises and leverage the browser’s local storage API.
Source: Combining Posts From Multiple WordPress Sites Using The REST API
Returning to the Original Social Network https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html
We are happy to announce the release of DLAW 5.0, an open source website management solution for building effective and beautiful public information websites.
Source: DLAW 5.0 Released: Open source platform for public information websites | Urban Insight
Drupal 7.50, the next release in the Drupal 7 series, is now available for download. It contains a variety of new features, improvements, and bug fixes (no security fixes).
EFS lets you create POSIX-compliant file systems and attach them to one or more of your EC2 instances via NFS. The file system grows and shrinks as necessary (there’s no fixed upper limit and you can grow to petabyte scale) and you don’t pre-provision storage space or bandwidth. You pay only for the storage that you use.
Source: Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions | AWS Blog
We’ve been waiting for this. Managing our own NFS is a bit of a pain.
A tutorial that shows how to make a PHP (Laravel) web app run in Azure App Service. Learn how to configure Azure App Service to meet the requirements of the PHP framework you choose.
Source: Create, configure, and deploy a PHP web app to Azure
The Monaco Editor is the code editor that powers VS Code, a good page describing the code editor’s features is here.
It is licensed under the MIT License and supports IE 9/10/11, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Find more information at the Monaco Editor Repo.
Source: Monaco Editor
Let’s talk about Basic Auth:
- It’s a well and clearly defined specification.
- It’s been around since ~1996.
- It’s super simple.
Here’s the short version of how it works.
- You are a developer.
- You have an API key pair: an API Key ID and an API Key Secret. Each of these is a randomly generated string (usually a uuid).
- To authenticate against an API service, all you need to do is put your credentials into the HTTP Authorization header.
A look at the Elastic stack, a versatile collection of open source software tools that make gathering insights from data easier. Learn the capabilities, requirements, and interesting use cases that apply to each.
Source: Overview of the Elastic Stack, open source software tools for data insights | Opensource.com
