Most people are run all realising that the cloud is just someone else's computer which you use for a time. Cloud computing and the benefits of elastic computing are available, but not everyone will we benefits from their investment in "the cloud ", and many will be put off…
I've posted about my reasons for switching blogging platforms to Ghost, but ahead of doing so I wanted to be able to compare the performance benefits of doing so. When I used Wordpress, I was managing the infrastructure myself, but also had to keep on top of the platform, including…
If you are reading this, you may have noticed that there's a new look and feel to the site. I've moved from my self-hosted WordPress platform to a managed Ghost blog. There at several authors which I respect who have made the same change, and I am doing so for…
When I chose Symfony, I did so on the understanding that it was going to be a relatively lightweight, performance framework which I could use to build web apps which scale nicely and respond quickly. I started out with a tutorial where the first activity was to get the name…
I'm about to make a change in my career and go back into development. To help me do that I've started a course on Udemy for getting up and running with Symfony 4. I figured that if I was going to be working with frameworks, I might as well get…
I'm working on a project, part time, in my spare time. As part of that project I have Jenkins for continual building when I publish anything into the master branch in git. I've not done much for a month or so, but logged in to it today to be given…
We all use computers for one thing or another, and in most cases we'll do the same things on them over and over. Part of being a developer is realising the things which need doing a lot, and automating them to increase productivity. Doesn't matter what it is, there's generally…
I've just moved my site from HTTP over to HTTPS. It's not a huge deal for something like this, but it's something which I've really needed to do for a while, and something which is becoming more and more popular. For most people this won't mean much, and for this…
I've wanted to build a useful JavaScript library for a while, but never found any of the ones out there lacking. I've been working on a new project recently and one of the things I needed to do for that was be able to upload an image via AJAX, along…
Whilst on my usual rounds on StackOverflow to help spread useful knowledge of computing and web development I came across the following comments on a thread:Um... mysql doesn't connect over http... nor to a directoryNeither should it be an url. Usually it's localhost or the IP address of the…