The GDPR is the General Data Protection Regulation and as the home page of the EU GDPR site says: After four years of preparation and debate the GDPR was finally approved by the EU Parliament on 14 April 2016. It will enter in force 20 days after its publication in the EU Official Journal and will be directly application in all members states two years after this date. Enforcement date: 25 May 2018 – at which time those organizations in non-compliance will face heavy fines. This regulation, or set or regulations, governs data security and the privacy of individuals. As the EU GDPR home page also says: The EU General… Read More
Continue ReadingLaravel vs Symfony
The Right Tool for the Job The phone rings. You pick it up. It’s the national lottery — they tell you that if you can be at their office within 15 minutes, you get the entire pot, upwards of 15 million dollars! But you’re at home, not so close to that office. You need to decide on the spot how to get there. Right now, in the middle of rush hour, going by car may take more than 15 minutes. But riding your bike might also take more than 15 minutes. You have now 30 seconds to decide and your heart is racing, because the phone call was real and… Read More
Continue ReadingUK Government to Impose Fines for Digital Insecurity
The UK government will be imposing fines on organizations found guilty of being lax in cyber security. See here: UK organisations could face huge fines for cyber security failures for all the details. Yet another reason to be careful when you choose your web software, and your web host, to be sure they have top security…..
Continue ReadingMove WordPress Site to New Domain
You have your WordPress site setup for some domain, such as mysite.com. Now you want to change that domain to sitenew.com. How do you do that? It’s easy. On a regular, single-site install (which is what most WordPress sites are), on the left side of your dashboard there is a Settings menu. Find “General” in there and click on it. Then there are two boxes: WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) Change those to your new domain sitenew.com and click Save. That’s it. 🙂
Continue ReadingHow to Install Laravel on Shared Hosting
If your host has PHP and MySQL, then there is a good chance that they can run Laravel. There are a few other requirements, such as certain PHP extensions, but those are fairly common. The only real issue is Composer. If your host can’t (or won’t) run Composer, then forget about it. 🙁 But if they can, then most likely you can install Laravel. 🙂 If they have Composer already installed, then you’re all set. If not, then you must install yourself, but it’s not too hard. The directions on the Composer Download page are great and they work on many machines. For shared hosting, however, you probably will need… Read More
Continue ReadingLaravel Tutorials
Getting started with Laravel is not easy, even for a developer who already understands the MVC model and has worked with it. We have compiled here a brief list of resources with good tutorials to get you started learning Laravel, and some advanced ones also, to keep you going. Laravel Specific Sites Below is a set of sites focused only on Laravel, each of which has tutorials: Laravel.com The first place for many is Laravel’s own Documentation site at https://laravel.com/docs. Everything there is of course free and text-based. Laracasts Laracasts is a paid-for only resource, but it’s one of the biggest and most well known. It’s all videos. Their tagline… Read More
Continue ReadingCiviCRM Extensions
CiviCRM is a fantastic tool right “out of the box” but there are also some important features not available in the core. Therefore we have CiviCRM Extensions, which are add-ons that give CiviCRM extended functionality. These extensions cover all kinds of features such as Webform integration, alerts, discounts, volunteer management, extended reporting and more. Almost all extensions work on Drupal and WordPress, and also Joomla. The official directory maintains a centralized list of all “official” extensions and that’s here: Extensions Directory. But you don’t normally need to visit there because extensions can be installed from within your own CiviCRM site. Installing Extensions The basic procedure is quite easy. When your… Read More
Continue ReadingCiviCRM in a Subdomain
We are often asked if CiviCRM can be installed in a subdomain and the answer is yes. For details how, just see our post called Nextcloud in a Subdomain. Everything there applies to CiviCRM as well. 🙂
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Nextcloud vs ownCloud – The Whole Story
Battle of the Clouds Updated note: This article was originally written when Nextcloud and ownCloud were much closer competitors. The market has moved strongly toward Nextcloud for most open source private-cloud deployments. We are keeping the comparison online because it remains useful historically, but some version numbers, app counts, marketplace details, and support-program details have changed since the article was first published. Interested in finding the private cloud package that will work for you? So are we! 🙂 In the open source private cloud space, there are several options, such as ownCloud, Nextcloud, Seafile, Syncthing and Pydio as well as smaller players such as SparkleShare. To see what’s happening in… Read More
Continue ReadingNextcloud in a Subdomain
We are often asked if Nextcloud can be installed in a subdomain and the answer is yes. There are two ways to do this, technically speaking. Let’s say your domain is puppies.com and you have hosting for that and you’re not ready to change that, but you want a Nextcloud instance and you want it on a subdomain called cloud.puppies.com. To get that, all you need to do is purchase hosting from us and in the “Domain Name” box put “cloud.puppies.com.” We will then set up your account for you using that subdomain and install Nextcloud for you. Then we will help you create an “A record” in your DNS… Read More
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