Web Dev Web Log

Introduction Ever since I learned how to properly host a website myself (i.e. rent my own VM, setup a web server and firewall, point DNS to server, serve web pages), I wanted to also host my own email.

I’ve recently started building a new web app and have decided to build it in Symfony (and hopefully ultimately Vue for the front-end), as a way of learning what looks like a really cool framework.

This post was originally written for the engineering blog of my employer, Smartbox Ltd., who are also the source of the content.

A general rule I follow when using KnockoutJS is that there should be no DOM manipulation in the viewModel.

In my current job, we use Foundation for stuff like modal popups, fancy drop downs etc.

Recently I started a new job at a company that is looking to transition away from a customised, unstructured, jQuery module set up to use KnockoutJS and RequireJS for it’s modules.

Facebook have long had the ability for developers to write custom apps and embed them as tabs in people’s or company’s Facebook profile pages.

TL;DR The MultiViews option in Apache automatically will map e.g.

I was doing a bit of work with Canvas recently, manipulating images in the browser and writing the results out to files.

Sometimes in work we can be asked to do things we don’t like and recently I was asked to look into implementing one of those homepage takovers.