Ryan Oeltjenbruns

Easiest Way to Dominate Dogfighting in Starfield

Ryan — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 02:09:03 +0000

Struggling with dogfighting in Starfield? Yeah, me too… until I tried a little creativity. I just started playing Starfield last Friday. I’ve got almost 8 hours in the game now and at lvl 13 (on normal) I’m taking down Galbank craft @ lvl 38. I want to tell you how =] How I got here …

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How to Disable the Resubscribe feature in Woocommerce Subscriptions Plugin

Ryan — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:48:51 +0000

This brief guide is aimed at developers familiar with WordPress who are looking to disable the Resubscribe feature in WooCommerce’s very own “Woocommerce Subscriptions” plugin. Let’s dive right in. Outline At the time of this writing (2023-07-03), there is no option to turn off the “Resubscribe” functionality. If you’ve come into a scenario where that …

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Connecting to a Pervasive SQL (PSQL) v12 Database using PHP ODBC+PDO on Modern Linux

Ryan — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:02:20 +0000

Hi friend. If this article title interests you, you – like me – have probably scoured the internet for hours trying to figure out how to fire up a db connection to an old, aging database… maybe so you can begin the process of evolving out of the 90’s. To get all this set up, …

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Adding WordPress Post Metadata when using wp_insert_post

Ryan — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:12:38 +0000

I found a little trick that I’ve overlooked so many times when writing plugins that use custom post types. Did you know that you can do this? How cool is that?! Now don’t laugh at me, but I looked for my postmeta in my DB because I’m always skeptical and look at this beauty: Nice …

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Adding a Page to your WooCommerce My Account Dashboard

Ryan — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:01:03 +0000

So you’re writing a plugin and you want to add your own pages for your customers to use in their dashboards with its own integrated nav link. There’s just one problem: documentation for *how* to do this is…. lacking. I just spent two hours chasing this one down; I gotchu. There are three components (2 …

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How to Easily Setup PHPUnit Tests for Codeigniter 3

Ryan — Sat, 23 May 2020 00:42:05 +0000

This tutorial will show you how to take a new or existing Codeigniter 3 project, and add PHPunit test capabilities to it. While Codeigniter 3 shipped with its very own unit test suite, some of us still prefer PHPUnit. I’ve read many methods online, but wasn’t 100% able to do everything I needed for one …

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Rebel Galaxy Outlaw: Best Guide Yet

Ryan — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:54:09 +0000

First: I. LOVE. DOUBLE. DAMAGE. GAMES. Small crew of incredible folks making games we’ve all been dying to play and maybe even didn’t know it. Yeah, I’ve sunk a ton of time in the original Rebel Galaxy, so you know I was PUMPED to play the new one. That’s right… I played and played and …

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Seeking Happiness

Ryan — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:13:13 +0000

Quick aside first: if this was shared with you, please know I wrote this for myself and nobody else. Ideally, this is just a thoughtful article to get folks thinking about things in their lives and is worth sharing. That’s what I’m hoping for at least! Is it just me, or is happiness one of …

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Helpful Hacky Skyrim Tools

Ryan — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:35:39 +0000

Enter the Skyrim Alchemy Sage Welcome fellow Skyrim alchemists – interested in brewing the most potent of poisons?! The most proverbial of potions?!! The most electrifying of elixirs?!!! …perhaps with a touch of alliteration? Hrmph! I have a scroll called the Skyrim Alchemy Helper that will help you craft the finest concoctions – far beyond …

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How I Write Professional Code

Ryan — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:00:30 +0000

Subtitle: and talk about it UNprofessionally I’ve been writing code for about the last decade and a half. It really wasn’t till I started working on a team of developers that I was pushed to write better, more readable code — a very important lesson. Then, it wasn’t till I started breaking old habits and …

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