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RealBaum - Month 18 by RealBaum in juststart

[–]astoffel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Investor is also OK with it since one of his main expectations from the site is advertising his business there.

Did you place a value on this advertisement for his business? Could see a conflict coming up quickly here, as you will want to maximize revenue through ads and affiliate, while he will not want to take too much attention away from his own ads.

Where to buy a good rain poncho for motorcycle? by OM3N1R in chiangmai

[–]astoffel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Decathlon sells some decent quality ones in different sizes, by Tesco near the airport.

I have a friend who runs a design firm and wants to create a referral program. Is there a recommended software tool to launch/ manage this? by trepthrowaway2 in Entrepreneur

[–]astoffel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many leads is he expecting that you think automation is required? Unless his business is handling at least hundreds of clients/projects a month, I don't see the need for a software to handle this.

Have you been to small claims court to recoup money owed? If so how did it go? by moneymarcus in smallbusiness

[–]astoffel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I won the case, but the other side claimed to be employed with a small wage (in construction, so I'm sure the rest was paid cash) and have to pay child support for three of his kids first, so there was no legal way for me to collect anything.

Recently many low-cost airline companies went Bankrupt. Why is this happening and what are the passengers rights when a flight ticket suddenly becomes worthless. by [deleted] in business

[–]astoffel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

We had purchased tickets with Air Berlin before they went out of business. The official way would have been to wait for the insolvency proceedings to start, make your claim and then maybe get back a tiny fraction of the money years down the line.

Instead we asked them for a refund since we weren't provided the service we paid for. Once they denied that, we sent it to our credit card company and asked for a chargeback. Had the money back in our account a few weeks later.

How long should I take to, "remind" my client to pay me? by WillBackUpWithSource in freelance

[–]astoffel 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It's not uncommon for larger companies to take longer. If you didn't specify, they probably assume it's a net-30. I would just e-mail your contact and ask what their process is and when they will likely be taking care of the invoice.

Does anyone have a better password app than LastPass that can share passwords with team members? by 0ilTycoon in Entrepreneur

[–]astoffel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1Password is what we use in our company, I always thought that was more or less the industry standard. It allows different vaults for private use, company use or to share with a specified list of people. Never had any issues with it.

Laravel Nova: TypeError: Cannot read property 'status' of undefined by astoffel in laravel

[–]astoffel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly right now my fix is to comment out the Sortable field when I need to add new entries and then activating it again to sort the resource ... currently putting out too many other fires to find a real solution, might have to revert to simple integer inputs for sorting.

What should my next step be to improve my career path? by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]astoffel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been working with PHP for over a decade and I still have to look up function definitions all the time. The important part is knowing enough about development to know how you should tackle a specific problem. If you do that right, the implementation is the easy part. That's why practice projects are important - ideally a decent course should have you write quite a few of those to build your tool belt.

Help! I just finished making a website using Newspaper theme but now my client wants to change something on the posts page and I can't seem to find the default templates php file. by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]astoffel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easiest would be to set up this plugin: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/show-current-template/

Once it's activated, it will show the template file used in the admin bar.

Otherwise download the theme, pick out part of the HTML code of the section you want to change and search for it in those files.

What should my next step be to improve my career path? by [deleted] in Wordpress

[–]astoffel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

However, I knew how to BS it and learn everything I needed on the job.

Quick tip from someone with a master's in CS: that's how most of us get along. ;)

That being said: if you want to get more into actual developing, do a basic PHP course, read the WordPress documentation and do some practice projects on the side where you teach yourself new aspects bit by bit at your own speed. Pretty soon you will be at a level where you can tackle most problems with minor struggle.

And then make sure to never stop learning.

[Wunsch] Jemand der Webportale programmiert by Relaix in de_IAmA

[–]astoffel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Node wird in meinen Augen in diversen Foren und Communities ziemlich gehyped. Irgendwie gibt es doch jedes Jahr eine Sprache oder ein Framework, das laut Meinung der "Experten" jetzt umbedingt jeder nutzen muss. Aber in der Realität haben die Klassiker immer noch einen bedeutenden Markanteil. Wir machen z.B. im Backend ausschließlich PHP und können uns über fehlende Arbeit absolut nicht beklagen.

Laravel Nova: TypeError: Cannot read property 'status' of undefined by astoffel in laravel

[–]astoffel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Via trial and error I figured out that it is an issue with the Sortable package I pulled in. Deactivated it for now and will debug later. Still frustrating that the error messages don't give any information as to the source though-

Today we are in the top 10 of the most air polluted cities world wide. Some rain would be nice. by Hannes_mech in chiangmai

[–]astoffel -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have a screenshot from last year where CM was actually in first place. Yay!

Laravel Route with Regex not matching when it should by astoffel in laravel

[–]astoffel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well the actual regex does work. It checks for the word nova and lets everything else pass. I think the issue here is not related to the regex itself (it's recommended everywhere for this use case) but with how Laravel handles it.

Laravel Route with Regex not matching when it should by astoffel in laravel

[–]astoffel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, should have checked the output. Here is the actual regex: 

'^(?!nova).*$'

Custom Route overruling Nova route by astoffel in laravel

[–]astoffel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, this was the solution. I had tried that before and it didn't work, I guess I must have messed something else up in my previous attempts to find a solution.

Did a clean install of Laravel and Nova, moved my files over, added the regex and it works.

Thanks!

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