If you work in IT then I’m sure you get asked the question ‘How do computers work?’, well here’s a simple post you can reference…
How computers work - Bits, Bytes and Lights
If you are a web developer but fancy getting started with apps then Cordova could be the way forward for you.
One of the biggest lessons I learnt was to make sure you have all your code backed up. When working on a project you may add and remove lots of lines of code in a couple of hours and its easy to make a mistake and delete the wrong line and for some reason the all mighty UNDO funtion doesn’t bring it back.
In my last post I introduced my experience of becomming a web developer, but now I would like to share with you how I would recommend to get started if I was starting now. A lot has changed over the past 10 years and I woud definitley do things differently.
Everyone loves a freebie, especially at Christmas. That’s why I’ve decided to make my books free on the 25th December.
Latest Posts
Upgrading a Laravel Vapor app to PHP 8.2
I recently updated a Laravel app running on Laravel Vapor to PHP 8.2. I was a bit nervous about the upgrade but it went smoothly for me. This article goes through the steps I went through to upgrade, from local development environment, dependencies, testing and deployment to vapor.
Building a VS Code Extension for Gutenberg blocks
I have been tasked with building a new website using WordPress. The last time I used WordPress was a few years ago and involved using Advanced Custom Fields to build custom pages and layouts. Things have changed a lot over the years and now there is the built in Gutenberg editor, which uses blocks to create a custom layout and add content. The trouble was, there didn’t seem to be great support in Visual Studio Code for the blocks, as they use HTML comments.
Using Pest to test Laravel Livewire validation rules
Last year I wrote a post about testing Laravel Livewire validation rules with PHP Unit. This post uses the same techniques as that post, but shows how to transfer it to Pest instead of PHP Unit.
