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 is, and…
It's been one of the buzzwords around development offices in recent years, and everyone is wanting a piece of the efficiency generating DevOps, but what are the benefits of it, and how do you get started? It's not as difficult as it may seem, but might now always deliver the…
Sat on a train heading through the Welsh countryside, I've been doing some browsing and shopping on my mobile phone (yes, there is mobile signal in strange parts of the Welsh landscape), and have been reliving usability issues in a number of vendors which would make my shopping experience much…
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 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…
I noticed today as I was about to start a different article that my website was looking a bit, well, funny. The layout was wrong, some of the colours were off, the whole thing was a mess. Don't get me wrong, it's not at the forefront of design, and won't…