Laravel: Further forays into Test Driven Development (TDD)
I'm using Test Driven Development (TDD) for the first (and second) time on a couple of side projects. Here are some further reflections on the process and issues I've come across.
Author: Ross Wintle
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If you’ve ever felt like you owed me a beer…
My college computing teacher, Ray Burcham, is raising money for the Great Western Hospital radiotherapy unit. This will mean that cancer patients don’t have to travel 30 miles to Oxford for daily cancer treatment. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/raymond-burcham This man is the reason I’m writing code today. So if you’ve ever had some advice, good-value work, IT support, […]
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Good company
This is the cool kid I get to hang out with on Thursdays. ?
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What AM I doing? (Answer: I’m building analytics!)
I'm going on the journey of building a simple, private, self-hosted, cookie-free analytics tool that I'm calling Kownter. I may fail. But it will be fun and interesting! Come along!
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I need to add social sharing buttons to a website…
Here's a thread designed to help non-web people understand how something that seems trivial on a website can lead to so many micro-decisions needing to be made.
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Where I’m NOW at with WordPress: Gutenberg as a developer
As a developer, I think I'm coming around to the idea of the new WordPress Gutenberg editor. Here's my updated thoughts and reflections.
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Testing out TDD – initial thoughts
TDD is a BIG change of mindset for development. Here's my initial thoughts after paddling around in the shallow end for a little bit.
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Where I’m at with WordPress: Gutenberg – as a business owner and developer
Gutenberg will be great for new projects going forward, but I've yet to be convinced that enabling it for all sites when they update to WordPress 5.0 is a good idea. So my plan is not to.
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Laravel: Simple cookie auth for your simple APIs
Laravel uses token auth by default, here's how to switch it out for simple cookie-based auth for quick and easy API tinkering for logged-in users.
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Christmas and Advent: busy-ness and reflection
It does seem that the expectations that the church puts on people don't match with how a lot of people live out the month of December.