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Besides the regular stuff, I’m undertaking some Micro-Saas work. One is an SMS scheduling tool for small businesses, Recustom. What’s it for? Recustom is a low-config tool to create customer contact SMS templates. The templates are easily configured to send an automated SMS for the future. For example, when a customer is paying for their… Continue reading SMS scheduling for business – Micro-Saas Case Study – Recustom

I’m working on an Australian dropshipping platform for ecommerce businesses, Elvenda. It’s a technically interesting platform because it needs to regularly import and export thousands of products from a range of ecommerce platforms (so you can dropship with WooCommerce, Shopify, BigCommerce, and plenty of others). The product also has a robust payments engine, seamlessly making… Continue reading SaaS Case Study: Elvenda – Dropshipping in Australia

Working through an issue today, I needed to pass a parameter through to sub-routes inside a route group in Laravel. It’s not very well documented, and very powerful. E.g. a signed in user can have a few apps. App with ID 3, 6, 10 etc. Anything they do, once they’ve chosen which app they’re working… Continue reading Laravel: Passing down a parameter in a route prefix/route group

It’s important when deploying a new platform to monitor the first few interactions and keep an eye out for unintended issues. Logging requests and responses against the server is a great way to get a birds eye view of the action. With Laravel 5, this is best done with middleware. Create a clean git branch… Continue reading Laravel 5: Logging all requests and responses

Pretty often when debugging a mobile app in a web browser, we need to disable access control allow origin, OPTIONS checks, and SSL. Creating a new Chrome shortcut on the desktop with the following flags will allow you to run Chrome without web security. Mac: open -n -a Google\ Chrome –args –disable-web-security –user-data-dir=/Users/[you]/chromedev/ Windows: “C:\Program… Continue reading Chrome: Disable Web Security

It’s difficult to find clear, up-to-date instructions for writing a native Android module for your React Native project. I spent about half a day piecing this all together from a few sources, so here’s how it ended up. Prerequisites: React Native is installed and up and running If you used expo, you should have ejected… Continue reading React Native: Writing a native Android module

I’m backporting Flow into a large React Native project of mine. It’s unclear sometimes how to do things ‘the right way’ with Flow. This is what’s working so far: Any type that is used across multiple components should exist in it’s own JS file, and be imported as a type. Here’s how that looks in… Continue reading React Native – using Flow

Seeing this error? “WooCommerce: To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server” This permissions issue haunts me after every new WordPress install. There’s a one-liner fix that doesn’t involve 777’ing your whole server.   Here’s the magic cure: Open wp-config.php Add define( ‘FS_METHOD’, ‘direct’ ); at the end Save and close,… Continue reading WooCommerce: To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server

By default, a Guzzle error thrown in Laravel will truncate the response body. When you’re deep in an API integration, this is a productivity killer. Here’s an easy way to error log the full response body from the API. try { $response = $client->request( “POST”, $this::$resource, [ ‘json’ => $item ] ); $body = json_decode(… Continue reading GuzzleClientException truncated

There’s a common complaint among the javascript ecosystem, from new developers and seasoned developers alike. We’re all exhausted from learning, building with, and then maintaining the new hot framework of the day. Below, we’ve detailed how we decided to lock in ReactJS. Who are we? I’m Rhys Williams. I run Code Workshop, a Sydney app… Continue reading Code Workshop is locking in ReactJS.