Gary Bell | Building software. Leading teams.

I've previously covered the issues I have with CMS platforms [__GHOST_URL__/issues-with-using-a-cms/].

We all know about HTTP codes, or at least we know there is a 404 one which means not found.

It's been a long time since I turned my old PC into a home media server [__GHOST_URL__/home-media-server-samba-configuration/], but time has come for that…

If you have a website, the chances are it runs on a CMS (Content Management System).

It's been a while since I last posted anything, despite starting off really well with weekly posts since moving to the Ghost platform.

There's hardly a week goes by that Facebook isn't in the news for one thing or another - usually something privacy related.

I use Gitlab a lot.

It's been one of the buzzwords around development offices in recent years, and everyone is wanting a piece of the efficiency generating DevOps, but what are…

Sat on a train heading through the Welsh countryside, I've been doing some browsing and shopping on my mobile phone (yes, there is mobile signal in strange…

Most people are run all realising that the cloud is just someone else's computer which you use for a time.

I've posted about my reasons for switching blogging platforms [__GHOST_URL__/switching-blogging-platforms] to Ghost, but ahead of doing so I wanted to be…

If you are reading this, you may have noticed that there's a new look and feel to the site.

When I chose Symfony, I did so on the understanding that it was going to be a relatively lightweight, performance framework which I could use to build web…

I'm about to make a change in my career and go back into development.

I'm working on a project, part time, in my spare time.

We all use computers for one thing or another, and in most cases we'll do the same things on them over and over.

I've just moved my site from HTTP over to HTTPS.

I've wanted to build a useful JavaScript library for a while, but never found any of the ones out there lacking.

Whilst on my usual rounds on StackOverflow to help spread useful knowledge of computing and web development I came across the following comments on a…

I noticed today as I was about to start a different article that my website was looking a bit, well, funny.

I've had the joys recently of being part of a code audit for a potential client for a change or re-build of a system.

Once again I've been inspired by a stack overflow question , and it made me think about issues of a shared hosting platform.

I was having my usual browse around Stack Overflow today (I really want that Fanatic badge) when I came across this question about fatal errors.

Earlier this week I was looking into RESTFUL web services and how to create them, so I set myself a small project.

I've had a few discussions with some of my colleagues and friends in software development, and one of the things we all agree on is that there is nothing…

Firewalls are not fun.

I'm a huge advocate of taking backups of things.

SVN, or any other version control system for that matter, should always be used when developing code.

I’ve been working on an old code base recently, a one which I have inherited, and looking through it I was frustrated at a lot of the code involved.

As part of the file server set up, I've created a Samba share in order to facilitate easily adding files to it form other devices around the house.

As you might have seen, I've been building, and setting up my home server, and during that time, I had a lot of issues getting things working.

After posting my intention of building a home file server [__GHOST_URL__/home-file-server-the-hardware] for storing my movies, pictures, music and probably…

This post is the start of a series on setting up a home file server.

I'm a big fan of anything which makes my life easier, and when it comes to web development and styling things, SASS ticks just about every box I need.

Not too long ago I looked at working with HTML5 Canvas [__GHOST_URL__/working-with-html5-canvas].

I spend quite a lot of time on StackOverflow, both in terms of finding answers for something I need, and also for helping people out with their issues.

Following the news this week that South Wales Police have been hit with a fine of £160,000 for not reporting missing data for two years, I got thinking…

Since I changed jobs [__GHOST_URL__/a-professional-change/] a little over a month ago, I've found myself in a position of needing to brush up on a few…

'Tis the season for change, it seems.

Change isn't always an easy thing to do, but it's exactly what I have been doing.

Microsoft have announced that their new operating system, Windows 10, should be ready for release later in 2015.

In my life I'm no different to any other developer.

I've been working a lot recently with data import and exports between systems.

The need for standards compliant HTML is documented all over the internet with the primary reason of speed and cross browser compatibility.

A colleague of mine posted a question to us developers for our input.