Gary Bell articles - 41 total
Why you should keep an eye on the job market
Here's why you should keep an eye on the job market
PHP Static Site Generators (Twig Templates)
PHP Static Site Generators using Twig Templating Engine
Test and Trace - A failure in IT procurement?
Is test and trace a serious failure in IT procurement?
Project Wikis - Share knowledge from the start
Is Gitpod a valid alternative to the stand alone IDE?
Using Gitpod to start a new project
Is Gitpod a valid alternative to the stand alone IDE?
Using Keyboard Shortcuts in GitLab
Keyboard shortcuts in GitLab - Work faster straight from the keyboard
Static Site Generators
Static site generators - why you should consider using one
Merge Request Templates
Merge Request Templates - Checklists for Everyone - Boost productivity
Are mobile workstations dead?
Is there still a place for the bulk mobile workstation?
Quick Actions in GitLab
GitLab Quick Actions - Speed up your workflow
Updating CI pipelines to allow PHP8
How you can update your pipelines to support PHP8
GitLab Scoped Labels
What are they, and why use them? Welcome to Tanuki Tuesday, where I look at the features o...
How to start blogging
It's the start of a new year, and a time when new resolutions come to people. One of those resolution...
Issue Templates
Welcome to Tanuki Tuesday, where I look at the features offered by GitLab. This week I'm going to loo...
My Goals for 2021
This is an entirely self-serving post, and is only about what I plan to achieve in 2021. This might n...
What level of test coverage do you aim for?
I'm sure we would all want to work on a code base with 100% test coverage, but it's not always possib...
Why a MacBook might be the perfect development device
Let me start by saying I'm not a fan of Apple. I don't own a single Apple device, and the only Apple...
Upgrading to Composer 2 using Ansible
A week ago I looked at upgrading to Composer 2 on a couple of machines. The process wasn't as simple...
Upgrading to Composer 2
If you develop using PHP, there's a very high probability you've come across Composer, the PHP depend...
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 co...
Laptops - what is more important?
When buying a laptop/notebook computer there is usually a trade off to be made. Which do you prefer,...
4 weeks until Black Friday - what are you hoping is reduced?
It's now only 4 weeks until Black Friday, where some things get massively reduced to make way for new...
Keyboards - Full size, TKL, or other?
Following the discussion about keyboards and does backlighting matter I'm wondering whether there's a...
Keyboards - Does backlighting matter?
Simple discussion - do you feel that keyboards need to be backlit, and why? Do you currently have a...
Getting started with GitLab's Cloud Development Kit
I'm a huge fan of GitLab, and make no secret of it. Pretty much my entire CI/CD section of site is de...
Never Trust User Input
I've had the joys recently of being part of a code audit for a potential client for a change or re-bu...
Do you create video content?
Do you create video content to supplement your blog, or as another hobby? What software do you use fo...
When did you transision to MacOS and how did you find it?
The reason I ask is fairly simple. It's a switch which seems to make sense the more I think about it....
Doctrine DBAL and the LIKE operator
Doctrine is a great abstraction layer, and I've resolved to use it more and more through my projects...