I've written a few times about GitLab and the CI/CD pipeline features it has. For most cases, it's straightforward to use. But, every so often, things don't always work as easily as the documentation makes out. A project I'm working on uses Symfony components, and has elements which use…
There are millions of blogs out there. Literally. But there should always be more. It might be seen as filling the Internet with junk, and but I think everyone should have a blog. It doesn't matter what you blog about, or whether anyone will read it. Blog for yourself if…
It's that time of year when we undertake a spring clean of our homes ready for the year ahead. Throw out the unused junk, and generally keep things tidy. This is a practice which should also extend to the apps and programs on your devices. With ever increasing connectivity, and…
This seems like a very simple and trivial thing, but it's something which gets easily overlooked. Setting up a CI pipeline environment is fairly trivial (unless you are using a custom docker image - but that's for another time); just tell the script to use a specific docker image, and…
The great part of a CI/CD pipeline is the headache which can be removed from deployments. Manual deployments are painful, but deployments as a whole don't need to be. Automating deployments is a great way to avoid human error, and to be able to deploy with consistent results. The…
Doctrine is a great abstraction layer, and I've resolved to use it more and more through my projects to keep things simple and maintainable. The problem is, the documentation isn't always great for it. Take the below image as an example of the documentation for the building a "LIKE" clause…
I mentioned back in August that I'd changed my backups to use a NAS enclosure rather than a full blown server. I'm glad I did, as I recently suffered a drive failure on the NAS which, if it had happened in my old server, I wouldn't have known about it.…
Having recently updated a Magento installation to apply SUPEE-11219, there were issues when searching for products using the filters for the grid. I had an error message of: Invalid attribute name: blcg_custom_field_2The only reference to 'blcg_custom_field_' was a constant: const GRID_COLUMN_CUSTOM_GRID_…
I've previously covered the issues I have with CMS platforms. They aren't bad (I use one for this blog), however some seem to want to make it as difficult as possible to update. I currently use Magento as part of my day job, and therefore I need to maintain and…
We all know about HTTP codes, or at least we know there is a 404 one which means not found. Some of us know that there's a 200 code (meaning OK), and that there's some odd ones in the 500 meaning something went bang! Those interested in SEO will be…