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Android

How to Debug or Sniff Network Activity on Android Emulator?

Update 2022: proxyman or httptoolkit may be simpler to setup and use on multiple different operating systems than Fiddler. To use the android network TLS interception the device must be connected to the computer and proxyman should be installed on the computer. Checking network activity is a very important task especially when your app is […]

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Android

Android Material Design Best Practices in a Bottle

This post provides a compressed tl;dr of the Android Material Design guide with Android Devices in Mind. Raising Things We need to raise view elements, which is essentially giving a shadow and emphasis to elements. Make use of the elevation attribute. As a short guide: app bar: 2dp floating button: 6dp card: 2dp anything raised: […]

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Android

Use Retrofit with a self-signed or unknown SSL certificate in Android

In this post I will highlight how to use Retrofit with a self-signed or unknown SSL certificate in Android First of all, this is hell in a cell. took me 8 hours to accomplish this from the point of a working Service/API Manager that uses the Retrofit Rest Client for android.   Android is Implicitly […]

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PHP PHP 5

How to ace a PHP job test in South Africa

Initial Preparation First of all do a project in PHP that utilises the database. I am talking about pure PHP and not a framework. Remember to turn make sure you set the following configuration settings. display_errors = 1; error_reporting(E_ALL); You can always view the php documentation which is always of great help.  Get ready for […]

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wordpress

Debug WordPress PHP Whitescreen of Death

This article highlights what you need to do to debug a WordPress Whitescreen of Death whether in the dashboard or frontend. Go to: wp-config.php Then change: define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false); To: define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); Source: Tutsplus Fix WordPress White Screen of Death