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Composercat is a comprehensive GUI for the Composer package manager, designed both for professionals and people taking their first steps with Composer.
A nice entry point for everyone that is afraid of the console. The GUI application is currently in beta and available for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
“Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.”
Composercat Composer
I am taking a small easter break to join up with family and friends. We will have perfect weather up here in the north for the coming days. I wish you all Happy Easter and many lovely days away from routine business life. EnjoyAlex
Visbug is an amazing new browser extension that allows you to do a visual inspection of your website in development.
A really nice tool for designers & content creators, helping them to optimize the look and feel of a website.
The extension is currently available for Chrome, but a Firefox Addon is in development.
GithubChrome Extension
Updated 25.03. : Some function names changed in the latest beta version.
ACF 5.8 Beta introduced an easy way to create your custom Gutenberg blocks. I am already using it heavily for a current project, to easily organize content and media assets.
Really powerful, when combined with Timber as well, which has been the foundation of many of my themes for years now ;)
Organizing data using ACF is nice, but sometimes you seek access to that saved block data directly. I hate it when I am confined to boundaries and the data flow is restricted or hidden. I need things to be accessible to choose the creative flow myself.
There you go, enjoy some free block data :)
I was a big skeptic, when it comes to WordPress and the new Gutenberg editor, but combined with ACF + Timber its pure magic :) Looking forward to things to come!
CheersAlex
Extended example:
The $collect array will hold all data, including all ACF fields. You will have full access to any field, including repeater fields. The $collect[‘main’] will just collect the standard post content.
svgcleaner has been around for some time and is constantly being optimized! It helps you clean up your SVG files, keeping them free from unnecessary data.
Github project. The GUI application adds batch file processing, decompression & compression and parallel cleaning jobs, GUI application.
GREENTONICs key concept is sustainability, which encompasses consulting, concept, design and implementation. I have a close relationship with the agency and have done a couple of projects with and for them.
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Villa Anna Speyer – Classic Bed & Breakfast offering, with 3 double rooms & bathroom.
Villa Anna Speyer
Merry Christmas, enjoy your off-time with friends and family, as well as the transition into the new year. Looking forward to our work together in 2019.
Even during this small holiday break, I will be keeping an eye on things :) Kind regards Alex
ps. During the christmas holidays, baked apples are a must-have for me. Quick recipe below:
The GDPR makes us jump through a lot of hoops to cleanup our websites and make all our code compliant. Many aspects of the GDPR are far from completely defined yet and there is a great uncertainty what is required, what can stay and what needs to be adjusted right now.
Embeding Youtube videos is one area, that many are afraid of. You need to mention the use of youtube in your data privacy policy.
Something like that :”Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.
If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.”
The question remains, if that is actually enough? Youtube allows you to switch to a cookieless embed on their website, that limits the data flowing to Google servers.
But how do you use that programmatically, with the Youtube iFrame API?
The iFrame API documentation has not been updated since 2014 and does not mention any option to switch to the cookieless youtube host.
But there is an easy option, just add the host option “https://www.youtube-nocookie.com” to your calls :
There we go, so simple and painless :)
The GDPR is a good thing, as it helps to secure our privacy. Those that are complaining now, are those that waited until the GDPR went live and did not take the time to really prepare soon enough.
BTW the email spam sent by so many services, was so not required, but helped me to clean up / delete those dormant accounts ;)
Pimp my Log is a web app written in PHP. It displays server logs friendly.
By default, Pimp My Log supports :
Key features:
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