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The following versions of PHP ship as standard with the referenced LTS versions of Ubuntu. See Ondrej Sury's defacto standard PPA to install other versions. --- --- Ubuntu Version…

The legacy "MBR" partitioning scheme limits the number of drives to four and, on some older virtual machines, I fell into a trap of expanding LVMs by adding more physical volumes.…

The following versions of Kamailio ship as standard with the referenced LTS versions of Ubuntu. --- --- --- --- Ubuntu Version Kamailio Version Release Notes Upgrade Notes 20.04…

IXP Manager uses MkDocs with Material to power its professional documentation site at <https://docs.ixpmanager.org/ , which is hosted via GitHub pages. This all sounds convoluted,…

A common way to affect such a migration is to use mysqldump to extract the data from MariaDB and then to insert it into MySQL. Assuming a reasonably simply situation, there will…

The dreaded Linux server that does not start up after a reboot. There are many online articles on how to fix this but there is also a simple solution that has worked for me. Boot…

The standard Ubuntu versions go EOL quite quickly and it's easy to miss the upgrade window such that running do-release-upgrade yields: In this example, Ubuntu is looking to…

A post for Google's crawler as this took me far too long to get working and the many many many Google hits on the topic all proved mostly unhelpful. On a simple Laravel +…

Over at INEX, we released v6.0.0 of IXP Manager last month. At this point, the platform is supporting 175 exchange points around the world. One of the biggest changes in v6…

Legacy installations of IXP Manager can be very difficult to upgrade as you can find yourself in a dependency nightmare whereby the old version of IXP Manager will not run on…

So you need to log changes to some / all database records, who made them, when and what was added / changed deleted? An easy an effective way to do this with Laravel Eloquent…

We call IXP Manager's statistics and graphing architecture Grapher . It's a backend agnostic way to collect and present data. Out of the box, we support MRTG for standard…

There's a very interesting package called calebporzio/sushi for Laravel that allows one to use arrays as Eloquent drivers / sources of data. @calebporzio posted his own example of…

A live document updated over time to collect various Git related links that I find useful. Official Documents - Official Git reference manual - Official Pro Git book My Own…

While Vue.js' popularity continues to sky rocket, there are some alternatives when you want to keep the declarative style but Vue.js is far too much for smaller requirements. One…

I've just finished Something in the Water - How Skibbereen Rowing Club Conquered the World by Kieran McCarthy. It's excellent. You'd see this book on the shelf and be a little put…

As installed on Ubuntu 19.10, Kamailio v5.3 will not work out of the box with MySQL 8 due to changes in the way in which users are created and privileges granted between MySQL 5.x…

I had the pleasure of giving a talk at HEAnet's National Conference 2019 last Friday on Ireland's internet history as seen from INEX's perspective. HEAnet is a founding member of…

Single-page applications (SPAs) are web-based applications that rewrite the current browser DOM rather than doing full page reloads. They look and feel responsive and crisp but…

Okay, I lied. WireGuard won't just run on Linux for the server side but that is what it was originally designed for. Linux is the first class citizen as the WireGuard…

Ubuntu 18.04 ships with PHP 7.2 by default but there are various reasons why you may wish to upgrade to newer versions. For example, active support for it ends later this year -…

I gave a talk on migrating legacy web applications to Laravel at last year's Laravel Live UK conference in London. Those that rated it gave it high marks which is always brilliant…

When switching between different PHP projects (or different branches of one PHP project), you often need to switch PHP versions. Particularly as older libraries will not run on…

A quick New Year's walk up to Three Rock and the Fairy Castle in the fog this morning. - - - - You can normally see Dublin here! - The Fairy Castle.