Upgrading Laravel 7 to Laravel 9

October 10, 2022

This weekend, I have decided it is time to upgrade my londinium.com website from Laravel 7 to the latest Laravel 9. As PHP is now in version 8.1 and the latest version of Laravel needs a minimum of...

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Adding Lat Long Map links For Photos To Londinium

October 5, 2022

There was an Openstreetmap London meetup in The Monkey Puzzle Pub near Paddington Station which got me thinking about adding images of the Pub to that page. Openstreetmap does allow one image as a...

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Adding Blog Post Comments

October 3, 2022

This morning @AshAllenDesign was asking about removing Disqus comments from his website and adding them is something I have been thinking about. But I never really liked the look of Disqus as it...

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August 2022 Allotment Andy Update

September 12, 2022

Has been a funny month, hot and dry but most of the plants seemed to have loved it. Plenty of watering of course but now the harvest of apples, plums, tomatoes, purslane and a lot more in earnest....

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Allotment Andy Update

September 11, 2022

I am back, blogging now. Having spent most of the summer allotment gardening and watching private jets at Farnborough Airport, I feel refreshed and am now back to write more blogs. Planning to...

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Making website screenshot images with spatie browsershot

April 16, 2022

Today I decided to make screenshots of webpages with spatie/browsershot To install I ran: I also ensured that Puppeteer and chromium-browser were installed, on debian I used. The code is...

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Website metrics

April 13, 2022

looking for sources to create a website score and metrics for a domain / url

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Adding share buttons for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

April 12, 2022

Adding share this buttons for each page on social media

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Adding social media share buttons with meta tags for facebook and twitter

April 11, 2022

Was looking into adding buttons on my website to share the page link to Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. The packages I found all had limitations, so I decided to code it all myself. The code is going...

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Monday Morning Updating The Database And Improving The Website Spider

February 28, 2022

Over the weekend, I like to explore new ideas and find potential solutions to improve londinium.com, discover new applications and find new code bases. One area I was looking at is the ability to...

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