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Turnitin Truncation

At the University of Edinburgh, we are moving our self-hosted instance of Blackboard Learn to a SaaS instance. In preparation for this move, we need to upgrade our Learn building blocks to ensure

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Accidentally Exposing your Web Application Credentials

In 2011 developers from Heroku developed the Twelve-Factor App Methodology, a list of best practices for portability and resillience of web applications. Heroku recommend you should store configuration differences between deployments in the applications environment.

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Logging into SQL Server from PHPStorm on Linux

Today, I came across an issue in work which meant I needed to access our Microsoft SQL Servers that provide a database back-end for some of our legacy applications. I thought that gaining access would be straight forward but it turns out accessing SQL Server from a Linux machine can be a bit tricky.

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Why OR and || are not the same in PHP

The difference between or and || are not well understood by many PHP developers. On the surface, the operators appear to be interchangeable but this is not correct. Understanding the difference between these operators will make you a better developer.

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Disabling First and Last Name Changes in the WordPress User Edit Page

We recently launched our Academic Blogging Service at the University of Edinburgh. The service is built on top of a WordPress Multisite instance and uses the institution's single sign on solution, EASE to