This is the first in what will become a series of articles on development processes and techniques in use at my current place of work, Public Desire. To start off with I’m going to take a run through our docker based development environment, then in future articles I might dip into our deployment processes and […]
Hi there, been a long time… nearly 6 months since I last posted anything. Having a kid will do that to ya! Anyway, this week I picked myself up a nifty little 2 in 1 tablet / laptop thingy from a chinese manufacturer I’d never heard of: The Chuwi Hi10 pro. For a grand total […]
For the last couple of months I’ve been working on a platform to solve one of the problems I’ve seen repeated across numerous businesses in the ‘fast fashion’ ecommerce space. The problem is how to update your homepage and site with the numerous promotions you’re running in a timely fashion without impacting site performance. For […]
I’ve just updated my dynamic proxy server in node.js to support file injection, and the stripping of headers that prevent loading targeted pages in iframes. This may all sound very nefarious, but I actually require this functionality in a (super secret) project I’m working on….
So, the time has come once again when I’m looking for new job opportunities. As of the 1st of June I’ll be available for any fantastically interesting permanent opportunities in and around Manchester (Uk) or remote working. you can view my linkedin profile here for a quick history of my experience, and if you want […]
In my previous post, I explored the idea of introducing software development principles to the world of infrastructure, specifically the translation of the ‘MVC’ design pattern to logically divide infrastructure into 3 distinct layers. Today I’m going to take a look at each of these layers in more depth, and examine how they fit together and […]
This will be a slight departure from my usual posts about random bits of code and have more a focus on architecture. In the last few years the world of development has seen quite a bit of upheaval as it adapts to new ways of working, the devops movement has, when implemented well, proven incredibly […]
Recently I’ve been tinkering with an idea I call nodeploy, for which I needed a dynamic proxy server…. ie, one I could change the configuration of on the fly. I looked at HaProxy and nginx, both of which offer very limited or overly complex functionality that kind of did what I needed, but not really… […]
Finally got round to releasing my (very rough / early) raspberry pi interface for minecraft on gitbhub. It’s still in a pre-pre-pre-alpha state, it’s just the sourcecode (although it runs in the development environment fine) so feel free to do what you want with it. You can see what picraft is / what you can […]
As per this thread on reddit, here’s my script for importing products into magento via an excel file. Some of it, specifically the attributes and attribute sets are hardcoded in places, but other than that it should be generally applicable to most stores. It makes use of the PHPExcel library for loading the data from […]