Change log - Having a code freeze for a few weeks :) Twitter lay offs begin Follow up on the Twitter story. It is reported that Elon has laid of nearly half of the Twitter staff. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk-fires-staff-how-many-rcna54799 EU bringing down the walled garden https://www.computerworld.com/article/3678689/apple-must-take-another-brick-from-its-wall-says-eu.html Microsoft teams has an update which makes it 30 percent...

Change log - Code Quiz is still getting some good pull requests.  There are 30+ issues that need your help.  If you're a JavaScript, Docker or PHP developer then checkout the GitHub issues labeled as 'Help needed' and 'Good first issues' https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz/issues - The How To Code Well platform is nearing completion. I think the e-learning platform will be launched in the next month http://howtocodewell.net Web Development news Adobe are now charging for Pantone...

Turbo pack Vercel have announced Turbopack which they claim will be a Rust based successor to web pack. https://vercel.com/blog/turbopack Vercel are claiming speeds of up to 10x faster than Vite and 700 time faster than Webpack. > “Turbopack only bundles the minimum assets required in development, so startup time is extremely fast. On an application with 3,000 modules, Turbopack takes 1.8 seconds to boot up, while Vite takes 11.4 seconds.” https://vercel.com/blog/turbopack >...

Changelog Code Quiz - We now have a Next JS website. This is also running a Docker image. No React components yet. - Docker compose files are now in the root directory Contributions welcome: https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz Ideas for the future Store Quizzes in Markdown files instead of PHP fixtures Simplified - We have a single source of truth for code questions Future proofing - We can use code snippets in the questions PHP has these three problems PHP has too many...

Change log Code Quiz (https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz) OpenAPI generator is now working on the code quiz monorepo Lots of great contributions to that open source project. Thank you :) howtocodewell.net Pre-production is now fully working after a few issues with infrastructure config. I'm currently working on adding content to existing courses on the pre-production site. Some features will be removed before launch via feature flags. Today we are going to talk about...

Change log The first build of the http://howtocodewell.net pre-production Docker image is making its way through the GitLab pipelines towards the Kubernetes clusters The Code Quiz has paused for a week as I'm taking some time off. The Code Quiz API now includes the Open API generator which will be used to generate type script for the API client Lots of great pull requests being added to the Code Quiz open source project http://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz Feedback from Abu Sales...

Change log Code Quiz API https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz Thank you to MetinBaris and everyone else who has contributed to the Code Quiz project Added dotenv package Lots of bugs fixed GitHub Actions on API client EsLint added Unit tests added You're doing Agile spikes wrong Let's talk about Agile spikes. What are they, why do we need them and why are you doing them wrong. Follow on the socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/howtocodewell  Instagram :...

Change log Code Quiz API https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz Added GitHub Actions to the JavaScript Api-Client Added API Platform package and configured the API endpoints Should beginners learn JavaScript, Python or PHP Learn the programming concepts first. It doesn’t really matter which programming language you start with as long as you START programming Python is a good teaching language as it prevents sloppiness that JavaScript can allow. Get the daily code quiz...

Changelog The Code Quiz GitHub repository now has a basic mock API client that uses a JSON Server. This was installed on the Tuesdays Live stream Work has started on building a Vagrant box that houses MiniKube and the howtocodewell testing environments. Code Quiz GitHub Repository: https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz Building the Mock JSON API: https://youtu.be/OznPvJIjMDc JavaScript Code Quiz answers: https://youtu.be/Tyvmq3gyZMY Tips for newly appointed Web Development team...

Change log The second Code quiz has a bunch of JavaScript questions. Join in on Twitter (https://twitter.com/howtocodewell) or Instagram (https://instagram.com/howtocodewell)  The first of the code quiz answer video is out (https://youtu.be/Qmz0TvPLgpQ) Fixed the issue with the Kubernetes assets paths. This required a nginx snippet that creates a proxy pass back to Object storage We can now move to Pre - Production My talk 'Code with confidence with PHPCS' from PHP Minds is...

Will Web Development die in 10 years? Some people think that JavaScript, PHP, Python and other Web Development technologies will die in 10 or even 20 years time. Is HTML finished? Is it time to learn something else? In this episode I explain my thoughts and answer this question. Please let me know if you agree, disagree or if you have others https://howtocodewell.fm/contact Change log I'm working on an error with Kubernetes and S3 volumes. Discovering deprecation notices before...

Changelog Big news the staging deployment is completed for the new howtocodewell.net platform This contains Kubernetes Symfony PHP 8 Full time vs contractor web developer. 5 Reasons to be a contractor Lots of exposure to different ways of working No two clients or projects are the same Different tech stacks Different processes and approaches Lots of opportunities to gain more skills and experience Flexibility Work the way you want to work using the tools that you...

Change log I’ve created 4 JavaScript YouTube short tutorials that will be released over the coming weeks New talk coding with confidence using PHPCS. If you’re a PHP user group that wants a speaker then let me know Full time vs contractor web developer. 5 Reasons to be a permanently employed Defined Structure Benefits Training Trust and loyalty gets rewarded over time Family vs resource External career progression Want to get in touch?...

Changelog I am giving a talk to PHP Minds tonight. The talk is called Code with confidence using PHPCS I’ve been working on the videoThumbnail component for the React website No updates on deployment yet News/Articles PHPCS compatibility checker By Daniel Opitz https://odan.github.io/2020/12/22/php8-compatibility-check.html PHP Security Audit https://github.com/FloeDesignTechnologies/phpcs-security-audit PHP 8.1.9 is...

Changelog I've created a playground in the mono-repo for ReactJS experiments I have started working on a very lightweight design system I am giving a talk to PHP Minds next Thursday. The talk is called Code with Confidence with PHPCS  PHP UK has announced their CFP and released early bird tickets. I have tickets. This weekend I am off to see England versus Scotland in the Common wealth boxing News/Articles How to call rest APIs using...

Changelog Lots of bitty bugs which have prevented me for progressing on the Kubernetes side of the howtocodewell.net staging deployments Lots of PHP packages on howtocodewell.net have been upgraded I was able to play around with the API platform. News/Articles API platform tutorial with Symfony https://digitalfortress.tech/tutorial/rest-api-with-symfony-and-api-platform/ How to store Symfony sessions in a database https://symfony.com/doc/current/session/database.html What’s new...

Changelog Lots of JavaScript package upgrades have been made to the frontend of howtocodewell.net including TailwindCSS, PostCSS, Webpack and Node itself. I’ve decided to use PostCSS over Less and I’m seeing much faster results when generating the CSS The plan for next week is to look at composer package upgrades as well as progressing with the staging deployment In my contracting space I have been doing a lot of PHP 5.6, 7.4 and Angular work News/Articles Being on call sucks by...

Changelog I’ve sorted the Kubernetes ingress controller for the staging deployment of howtocodewell.net I’ve got a few problems with connecting services outside of the Kubernetes cluster but I am working my way through those. I’ve been updating the pipelines to allow for certain manual jobs in GitLab. News/articles Python ASGI The future of Python Web Development A new asynchronous standard for Python web applications. WSGI = Web Server Gateway Interface ASGI = Asynchronous Server...

Changelog My Kubernetes CronJob experiments are now working On Tuesdays live YoutTube stream we fixed issues with the PHP implementation of Object Storage On Sundays Twitch live stream we started the process of upgrading NPM packages Some news/articles to share StarLabs has teased a 4k linux laptop called the StarFighter https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/starfighter-15-6-4k-linux-laptop-from-star-labs Why isn’t the internet more fun and...

Change log I'm currently running experiments with Kubernetes CornJobs I've done lots of under the hood security tweaks with howtocodewell.net I've started using Jira to manage spikes and delivery tickets for the deployment stage of howtocodewell.net I've added tickets for some upgrade work, Symfony 6, NPM 16 LTS, PHP 8.1 On Tuesday we progressed the PHP registertion course by adding the framework-less router. Next week we will add some PSR interfaces for the HTTP messages to the...

Changlog  The deployment phase of https://howtocodewell.net staging site is going very well. I now have Kubernetes cluster is running via Terraform Why am I leaning TypeScript?  I know many languages, some more than others.  PHP is my goto and Python is the next biggest language I know.  Of course I know JavaScript and other languages such as Java and Perl but I rarely use those.   In my opinion Typescript is what JavaScript should-of been to begin with.   - I’ve noticed more demand for...

Changelog  On Tuesdays live show I fixed all the databases tests for the PHP Registration course  I'm still playing with Gitlab pipelines Has Google created a sentient being?  BBC news report Medium article with Lamda interview

Change log  - I’ve started learning typescript as I want to convert all the HTCW JavaScript code into TS  - I’ve started playing with a Kubernetes playground for HTCW staging  - On Tuesday we started planning how to build the controllers for the PHP registration course  HPDevOne  Is now available to buy and some people already have them.   WWDC WWDC is this week.   I’m still digesting my thoughts on the announcements.  I may talk about my opinions next week.   m1windowsproject  An...

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