To access the underlying data within the views, use the following;
$form->vars['data']->item_id
Accounting – Depreciating Fixed Assets in Xero
For depreciating fixed assets in Xero (using cash accounting), this was found on the Xero community forums;
Like Peter said, the entries created by the fixed asset system are treated as non-cash.
If you need depreciation in non-cash reports, I have a clunky workaround. You can just do a journal to reverse those entries created by the FA system, and then create a cash journal for the same amounts.
Step by step it’s something like this:
– generate a depreciation schedule report for the report period (for reference)
– create a manual journal entry, un-check the “show in cash reports” checkbox, and reverse the amounts of depreciation that the Fixed Asset system has generated. (credit depreciation expense and debit depreciation asset) So you can just do the one journal for a whole year’s amount, unless you need a monthly cash p&l.
– copy the journal you just created, check the “show in cash reports” checkbox, and reverse the journal you just posted (debit depn expense and credit depn asset).
SSL Keys for JWT
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26924/how-do-i-convert-a-ssh-keygen-public-key-into-a-format-that-openssl-pem-read-bio
Generate 4096 bit keys;
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
Convert to PEM format;
openssl rsa -in ms-test -pubout -outform pem > ms-test.pub-509
Updating SSL certs for Jetty servers
So i’m using a standard SSL cert like any other server would have (with a cert for the domain, and intermediate cert)
The following combines the intermediate & server cert into one. Goes in order of your server cert first, followed by intermediate, next intermediate (if needed), etc.
sudo cat my-domain.crt intermediate.crt > cert-chain.txt
These then convert the chain cert & key into a pkcs12 format
openssl pkcs12 -export -inkey my-domain.key -in cert-chain.txt -out my-domain.pkcs12
This then uses the pkcs12 file and imports it into your keystore. I used a new keystore as i’ve only got the one domain on the Jetty server
sudo keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore my-domain.pkcs12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -destkeystore keystore
These came from a number of Stack Overflow articles (accidentally closed them prior to writing this — sorry guys!)
GTD – Getting Things Done
Nice writeup on OmniFocus & Getting Things Done
Capistrano & supervisord
The following checks if the supervisor ‘service’ config file exists, and if not, adds it and notifies supervisord that there’s a new service to load in.
After that, the supervisor service is restarted.
task :restart_supervisord, :roles => :web do
run "if [ ! -f /etc/supervisor/conf.d/microservice-abc.conf ]; then #{sudo} ln -s #{latest_release}/supervisord.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/microservice-abc.conf && #{sudo} supervisorctl reread && #{sudo} supervisorctl update ; fi"
run "#{sudo} supervisorctl restart microservice-abc:"
end
PHP Phalcon version check
Enter this in on the CLI:
$ php -r "echo Phalcon\Version::get();"
Upgrading to PHP 7 / Phalcon 3
https://www.thinkingmedia.ca/2016/02/how-to-upgrade-php-5-5-9-to-php-7-0-for-cakephp-3-2-on-ubuntu-14-04/
https://phalconphp.com/en/download
https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-debian.html
S3 to S3 bucket transfer
See s3cmd – http://s3tools.org/s3cmd
So to backup a bucket called mybucket
s3cmd mb s3://mybucket_backup
s3cmd –recursive cp s3://mybucket s3://mybucket_backup
For the want of a nail…
“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail