Track Time Spent on Projects with IBM Cloud
Many, many years ago, I wrote an article about building a timesheet system to track and analyze work hours with PHP 4.x. It was a fairly useful little application, one that I ended up using quite a bit...
View ArticleMigrate from CCTM to Pods in WordPress
When I first started with this WordPress blog, I installed the Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM) plugin to help me manage custom content types. Although this has been perfectly adequate for my needs,...
View ArticleMonitor and Correlate Personal Asthma Readings with Environmental Data
For people suffering from asthma, a peak flow meter makes it easy to monitor lung capacity and understand how changes in weather and season affect their condition. Typically, this information is stored...
View ArticleGo Serverless with PHP
If you’re building a small, single-purpose Web application and you want to run it in the cloud, the the typical option is to reach for a small cloud server from Amazon, Google or Azure. Those servers...
View ArticleCreate IBM Cloud Services with the IBM Cloud CLI
Most of the time, I use the IBM Cloud Dashboard with my browser to manage applications, instantiate services and check status. But sometimes, the point-and-click approach is just too slow. So, when I...
View ArticleCreate IBM Cloud Service Credentials with the IBM Cloud CLI
To access an IBM Cloud service instance, you need service credentials. These credentials can be generated via the IBM Cloud Dashboard or the IBM Cloud CLI. My preferred approach is always to use the...
View ArticleDeploy a Cloud-Native Database Service on IBM Cloud
A database in the cloud is a wonderful thing. It can serve as a secure, reliable and (most important) off-site data store for your application. It can also come in handy under different testing...
View ArticleRead and Write Data on IBM Cloudant with PHP
IBM Cloudant is a fully-managed, distributed database that runs as a service on IBM Cloud. It is based on Apache CouchDB (although it is not open source itself) and can be accessed using a standard...
View ArticleIntegrate a Node.js Application Quickly with IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant is a fully-managed, distributed database that runs as a service on IBM Cloud. It is based on Apache CouchDB and the easiest way to access it is with an IBM Cloudant client library. As of...
View ArticleCheck and Refresh IBM Cloud Access Tokens with PHP
To access an IBM Cloud service instance, you must have an IAM access token. To obtain an IAM access token, you must have an API key for the service. Access tokens can be obtained directly from the IBM...
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