I recently experienced really slow full text searches in VS Code. These are the steps that fixed that behavior for me. Since I switched Macbooks recently, I suspected that I had missed some OS defaults. First, I verified that this is not related to any of my numerous Extensions in use by starting VS Code […]
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.A Step-by-Step guide on how to migrate a DDEV projects' MySQL/MariaDB database to Postgres 17 and re-configure DDEV.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Let's say you have a PHP Project that is based on Composer. You have found a bug in a vendor package and you need to fix it. What do you do? In this article I want to list a couple of options you have and outline differences, as well as look at each options Pros and Cons.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.Other IDEs come and go. Yes I'm looking at you Atom. But Eclipse PDT is still around. It's not the most popular one, nor does it fully support PHP 8, yet. Nonetheless, it's still a great, highly customisable IDE. A bit bloated, a bit slow at times but a worthy alternative to VS Code, PhpStorm, Nova, Sublime Text and whatnot.... This article shows you how to install and setup this IDE with Java onto a RamDisk on macOS for maximum performance.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.I use NodeJS, its package manager NPM, and even NVM to install different versions of NPM in many projects to build frontend assets. My recurring use case is: compile some SASS files into CSS, join some files, minify the output, copy fonts and icon fonts, pre-compress static assets, and so on. I am familiar with helper tools like Grunt and Gulp to set up these tasks. In a recent PHP project, I tried to avoid the use of NodeJS/NPM. I was surprised how easy it is to achieve the same results with nothing but plain old PHP.
By Erik. Erik Pöhler's Weblog.This is part 17 of my article series 25+ Tutorials on How to boost the performance of your WooCommerce store. While JPEG and PNG have been a de-facto standard for storing images for the web for a long time, webp is here to change that. With an estimated reduction of 30% of storage space requirement, the impact for improved load times, and bandwidth usage is significant. Wordpress comes with support for WebP since version 5.8.
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