Roberto Guido - MadBob (Page 3)

Message in a Phone

I had to integrate SMS notifications in a project for a client, got a look to the API documentation of Skebby (SMS service popular among Italian developers), and started wondering about a Laravel package to integrate it into the native notifications system of the framework. More recently, another client asked

varnish

Varnishing Wordpress

Mixing Varnish and HTTPS is usually a pain in the ass. Even more when Wordpress is involved. The common setup is to expose Nginx on the 443 port, let him handle the HTTPS connections, proxying to Varnish, and fetching back from Nginx - in HTTP - listening on a high

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Monthly Report: September 2018

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * Dario: rooms management and booking * many fixes on the repository * laravel-log2rss: Laravel logs published in RSS * updated to Laravel 5.7 Support my activities with PayPal or Patreon!

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Monthly Report: August 2018

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * Dario: rooms management and booking * many fixes on the repository * postegg: endpoint to POST data from web forms * fixed 2 and 3 Support my activities with PayPal or Patreon!

laravel

Play it Again, SAML

I had to integrate SAML authetication on a Laravel application, so I composer required the laravel-saml2 package (actually, the remove_mcrypt branch. You know: mcrypt has been dropped in PHP 7.2...) and configured it to attach to the SimpleSAML-PHP instance I recently deployed. Of course nothing worked out of

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Monthly Report: July 2018

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * Dario: rooms management and booking * initial release on the repository My Contents * 20 CC-BY photos loaded on my Flickr profile. Support my activities with PayPal or Patreon!

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Check the Checkbox

I often use the "add and remove rows from a grid" pattern to permit handling groups of data, but today I had to manage a particular use case. Given a simple table

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Monthly Report: June 2018

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * Spunta: a simple checklists manager * many fixes on the repository My Contents * 60 CC-BY photos loaded on my Flickr profile. Support my activities with PayPal or Patreon!

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Monthly Report: May 2018

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * Spunta: a simple checklists manager * some fixes on the repository Other Software * laravel-imap: Laravel package to handle IMAP connections * little improvement My Contents * 109 CC-BY photos loaded on my Flickr

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Map Drop

I wanted to recreate the Flickr's feature to drop photos on a map to geolocalize them. Like this: So, hacking on a MapBox canvas, I obtained that: Here we have * a

used to instance the MapBox map * many

, each containing the img to geolocalize * a few CSS and JS The

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Monthly Report: April 2018

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * apress: a simple Twitter scheduler * fixed 5 Other Software * zetacomponents/Archive: PHP package to manage archive files * fixed issue with PHP 7.2 * NextCloud Notes: note-taking app for NextCloud * fixed

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SAMLStorm

SandStorm is a cool solution to host simple web services and let users use them easily. It can be installed with a few commands, but still has an issue that bothered me: it is not possible to have a publicly accessible instance, as all of the involved login methods imply

laravel

Social Logout

Again about the Laravel application involving Google login: it is often used on computers shared among many people, and logging on Google involves that all of the services are then enabled and accessible from that computers. Mostly undesiderable, of course. Socialite logout do not implies Google logout, nor any form

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Monthly Report: March 2018

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * Spunta: a simple checklists manager * many fixes on the repository Free Software Promotion * MERGE-it: Italian cross-community meetup * coordination of the event Support my activities with PayPal or Patreon!

Not the Right Scope

My customer uses Google GSuite in his organization (a no-profit one), and wanted to use already existing accounts to login in my application. Quite easy, as Google is already implemented in Laravel Socialite. But default configuration for Google in Socialite includes scopes for Google+ API, to access profile informations, and

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Key of the Key

Recently I've worked a little with GPG keys in a web application (mostly to digitally sign documents, with PIN-protected keys). Two considerations: * OpenPGP.js is really cool and easy to use, get it a look * to avoid depending from native PHP extentions I've used this composer installable library, which is

import, require and include hate for JS

Preamble: next time I will read words like "easy" or "simple" in a Javascript package manager presentation page, I will look for the maintainer's home address and will dump a full load of shit in front of his door. Recently, I started to adopt Laravel Mix to build assets included

laravel

Update my Models

Today I've discovered a particular behaviour of Laravel models' events handling: the updating event is not fired if the object's attribute have not been really modified. More specifically, if isDirty() returns FALSE. So, your Model::updating() callback is not really executed for each save() on an existing model, but only

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Monthly Report: February 2018

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * closed #21, #30, #31 * given a lightning talk to FOSDEM 2018 * Spunta: a simple checklists manager * initial release on the repository * Burnia: honeypot-based captcha * initial release on the repository * public

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Monthly Report: January 2018

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * added support for international localization My Contents * 95 CC-BY photos loaded on my Flickr profile.

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Monthly Report: December 2017

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * postegg: endpoint to POST data from web forms * some fix on the repository * tiret: a simple S3 frontend * some fix on the repository

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Mails into the Web

Requirement: "Given this Mailchimp newsletter, embed the latest issue in that Jekyll static website". Mailchimp offers many APIs, but this approach requires too many complications. Instead my solution relies on RSS: given the RSS feed of your newsletter (you can obtain it with the "RSS" link on the top-right corner

laravel

Falling in a Dot

After many hours debugging a Laravel application, I've found the issue. The Request object handles input arrays using a so called "dot notation", to permit you to directly access structured informations in the form of $name = $request->input('products.0.name'); That's really cool. Until you don't give a fuck

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Monthly Report: November 2017

What I've done this month... My Software Projects * GASdotto: management application for ethical purchasing groups * many fixes on the repository * fixed 16, 22, 23 * postegg: endpoint to POST data from web forms * initial release on the repository * public instance, freely accessible * apress: a simple Twitter scheduler * fixed 2, 3, 4

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Get Informed by Troubles

Today I opened the logs of a Laravel application of mine, publicly available. And found lots of exceptions. Quickly, I realized those were generated by a new user trying to do stuffs no one ever tried (and no one ever noticed as failing). Once the issues were fixed, I decided