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Learning Ruby on Rails - 1

Feb 9, 20212 min read

Over the last 8 months, I've been the Cloud Engineer in an agile team where the core website is built on Ruby on Rails. I've learned how to deploy Dockerised Ruby on Rails applications on a Cloud platform, but never understood at a deep enough level ...

Moving my blog to Hashnode

Feb 8, 20215 min read

I've previously blogged about: moving from WordPress to Hugo working with Netlify CLI on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 for local development switching to Eleventy.js What I hadn't realised until the last week was that the Eleventy theme I was using...

Improving my bash Shell Scripting

Feb 7, 20214 min read

Although I've used Linux since 2003, and done some scripting over the years - usually to automate a task, I hadn't made a concerted effort to improve my coding. I really rate Nick Janetakis and saw he had a post on quoting variables in bash which kic...

AMP stack script on Ubuntu

Jan 14, 20217 min read

This article is about several things: shell scripting with bash using GitHub Actions developing a re-usable script to prepare an Ubuntu server (or Docker container) to run Moodle. Requirements A single bash script Use functions for better programm...

Learning Eleventy.js

Oct 12, 20202 min read

Getting started with eleventy.js Earlier in the year I'd come across Josh Cunningham and his blog on converting from WordPress to 11ty I found Phil Hawksworth's FreeCodeCamp course on JAMStack to be excellent, where he used Eleventy to show off the c...

Containerising PHP

Aug 28, 20207 min read

Tips on containerising Moodle on a LAMP stack, with Docker multistage builds We start by following this Semaphore CI guide folding in: Bret Fisher Nick Janetakis Phil Redmond PHP FPM bloke Which container base image? Many guides suggest Alpine in ...

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