Update, 4th June 2019: The BBC have confirmed this news. Notable: iTunes will remain unchanged on Windows platforms, and downloads will still be available in a sidebar on the Apple Music app for Macs. My original post follows. Last week I read a few articles about the alleged closure of iTunes, with the suggestion that […]
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Use Makefiles to quickly run common commands
A tip I picked up from work is the use of a Makefile to set up short aliases for commands you run often, but that are a pain to type, or you can’t remember. I find this particularly useful as I code fairly intermittently these days, so it’s easy to forget the exact syntax of […]
Always be shipping
Building software is fun. It’s great to develop something from nothing, or extend something to do more than it did before. I think coders want to build things the best way they can. But in practice, that doesn’t always happen. Shortcuts can be taken, perhaps due to time pressures, or major requirements popping up late […]
How to minimise CRUD front-end code duplication in Laravel 5.4 / Twig
CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) is something that developers do quite a bit of. Frameworks can help with this, but there’s still a fair amount of code you’ll need to write for every CRUD screen you put together. One particular area is the difference between Create and Update. For many of the projects I’ve worked on, Create and […]