We are beginning work next week on developing these two apps: files extended metadata duplicate file detection This will be our first venture into Nextcloud App Development. Stay tuned for more news.
Meltdown and Spectre are two recently-discovered security vulnerabilities in modern CPUs, including those used on our servers. The brief response from CiviHosting regarding these two issues is that Meltdown is a serious vulnerability, but our servers are not vulnerable to it. Spectre is less serious, but our servers are not vulnerable to it either. The...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...