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Changing my backups

Changing my backups

It's been a long time since I turned my old PC into a home media server [https://www.garybell.co.uk/home-media-server-samba-configuration/], but time has come for that machine and some of its components, so it's time it retired with grace. Fortunately the main issues are

CI/CD with Gitlab - Getting started

I use Gitlab a lot. I use it for personal projects and have also implemented it at work - I love the platform. Others are available, but for me, having everything in one place (though risky!) saves me having several tabs open. I've previously covered what CI/CD

Starting with Symfony - Performance issues

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

Jenkins disk space usage

Jenkins disk space usage

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

Encrypting the site

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

Database Connection Mis-information

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 directory Neither should it be an url. Usually it's localhost