Category: Developing

PHPStorm 2016.3 changes to Terminal

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How to configure PHPStorm terminal to use GitBash on windows! Being a developer who likes using Windows can sometimes have its quirks but using PHPStorm and configuring the Terminal to bash instead of CMD can be very helpful. I have a preference to use bash, mainly sh.exe distributed with Git for Windows. If you are […]


WordPress Workflow – WCSYD 2016

i spoke at wordcamp 2016

Development to Staging to Production First, big thanks to everyone who attended WordCamp Sydney 2016 and all the awesome people who organised it. This event was my second this year and my second time speaking, truly is the best event to attend. It’s important to remember that everything I talked about on the day and […]


Installing PHP on Windows 10

Installing PHP on Windows

I recently had to install the PHP executable on my laptop for my local Laravel dev. I had some issues, pulled out some hair so I wanted to post what happened when I tried installing PHP on Windows 10. Just installed the local php.exe for Windows 10 on my laptop, had some issues and thought […]


Cool things coming to Web Dev on Windows

Here are some very new things coming to Windows 10 to make non-windows development way betterer. I have been working on ways of improving or finding the perfect setup to develop non-windows applications on Windows. By that I mean not working with dot NET applications in Visual Studio. I primarily work on WordPress and also […]


AngularJS development with PhpStorm on Windows

Making AngularJS Development on Windows 10 just little bit easier Always the same, lots of excellent setup tutorials “How to setup Angular Dev” but almost always on Mac. Not bashing, love Apple. I currently own an iPad and owned a Mac book Pro for some time, until they surface mounted everything and made owner upgrading […]