Accessing phone contacts saved on a mobile phone is one of the most common things that as mobile app developers, we will come across. While there are quite a few ways of accessing phone contacts in Flutter, I prefer the simplest way to fetch phone contact details in Flutter, which I explain below. But in …
![[SOLVED] MySQL ERROR 2002 (HY000) Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket - Amazon Lightsail.](https://rajivverma.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SOLVED-MySQL-ERROR-2002-HY000-Cant-connect-to-local-MySQL-server-through-socket-Amazon-Lightsail-1024x576.png)
I recently received an AWS Abuse report on one of my client’s AWS LightSail instances. Nothing was found on the detailed investigation, seemingly a false alarm. However, just to be on the safer side, I migrated the app to a new Lightsail instance. After which, I was surprised to get a MySQL ERROR 2002 (HY000): …
ChatGPT has been everywhere lately. Be it on Twitter, YouTube, or the Blogosphere, people are talking about it all the time. And given the crazy stuff ChatGPT can do, I would so, all the buzz around it is only natural. I however have only been watching it from afar, until this morning, when I finally …
How I Created a Flutter App Without Writing ANY Code, using ChatGPT? Read More »
Like everything has pros and cons, hosting websites on Amazon Lightsail servers has the same. While Lightsail servers are fast, robust, and good value for money, they are somewhat time-consuming to maintain. Many tasks that would have been taken care of automatically if you were on a shared web server, have to be done manually …
How To Upgrade PHP on Amazon Lightsail, Quickly? Read More »
Importing, uploading, and processing data from Spreadsheets is something you cannot avoid if you are a developer. The good thing, however, is the fact that importing and reading data from spreadsheets is quite straightforward using Laravel. The steps involved in uploading an Excel sheet using a Laravel app and storing the data in a useful …
How To Import Data From Excel (XLS, XLSX) Files in Laravel? Read More »
I have a ton of websites (clients’ as well as mine) that sit on a Bitnami LAMP stack on AWS servers, mostly Amazon Lightsail. Almost all of them have SSL installed via Bitnami’s bncert-tool. Primarily because it’s simple to use to install and the SSL renewal is also taken care of, by a corn job …
How To Renew SSL Using bncert-tool on Amazon Lightsail – Bitnami LAMP Stack? Read More »
This article assumes you already know how to create a new Laravel project with Laravel Livewire installed. If you arent’ already familiar with the same, I suggest you read this quick article first. This post also assumes that you have already hooked your newly created Laravel Livewire project to a MySQL db and the users …
How To Create Search Functionality using Laravel Livewire? Read More »
Not long ago, I had written a post about How To Store Data in Google Sheets using Flutter. I recently came across another simpler way to do it. In this approach, I will use Google’s App Script, which I had never even heard about, until recently. The top-level approach would be something like this: Create …
How To Store Data In Google Sheets using Flutter? Read More »
Images and any form of image-processing had never been my forte. So, I had never even thought that I will be trying something like this. But then, one thing leads to another and I am here writing about How to resize image using Laravel and How to write text on an Image using Laravel. Let’s …
Getting a new VueJs application is a pretty straightforward process. There are multiple ways to create a New VueJS application out of which, we will create a new VueJS app via the VueJS CLI. The reason for going with this approach is the fact that this process is quite simple yet flexible in setting up …