Blogs on Will Hall Online

The end of the year is a great time for evaluation and retrospection; and the end of the decade is the same.

I recently have been working on single pipelines.

As you may already know I run a relatively successful (in pull terms) Docker container for Ansible; willhallonline/ansible.

Normally, I try to write expressionate things inside my blog, about certain things I have worked on or found interesting.

I have been a user of GitLab CI for a long time.

I am very keen on pushing the limits of performance, especially as a way of teaching myself ways to be able to improve application performance (albeit this is a static HTML page load with some JavaScript).

I was recalling recently of my history with the Internet.

Adding a code highlighter is a really nice way to both show code on your site in a more decorative way, but also to make it easier for users to reproduce what you may be asking them to do.

Increasing disk space on the fly inside AWS is a joy to do (kind of).

Anyone who has maintained open-source software has probably felt the burnout or challenge of maintaining software around their day job.

Fixing code especially when linting can be interesting; honestly.

Stylelint is a great tool for improving your CSS.

Scaffolding or structuring your Ansible projects mean that not only do you have a sane way understanding how your projects are put together but you can also look at being able to re-use and extend your DevOps projects.

When working with projects that have dependencies on other projects using git submodules can be really useful.

There has been a tweet doing the rounds about how people are doing with managing their RAM.

Getting accurate results about the size and growth of your database tables enabled you to make smart decisions about partitioning and management of storage.

Sending messages over the Internet can be fun (we are doing it now).

What commands do you use most on command line?

The use of Docker containers has exploded (at least within Web Development) and therefore we have a whole bunch of new tools that can be used to manage the DevOps process.

There is a lot of discussion around the amount of money that is inside the tech industry.

It has been a while since I returned from DockerCon Europe in Copenhagen, and despite doing a presentation 4 days after arriving home for Docker Cambridge meetup group, I haven’t yet done a blog post for it.

The use of tools seems to have exploded in the past few years.

Docker.

The most recent buzz word around is digital, however, it is often used as a catch all term for almost anything that is related to computers.

TL; DR.

Making your own containers can be a super useful way of not only understanding more about docker, but also for understanding more about the systems administration of your applications or docker images.

So far we have been discussing using containers, largely from inside the container.

As we have already discussed Docker is a great way to isolate your environment and stop items from crashing into each other.

So, you successfully have your containers and you have started to be able to run containers to do stuff.

So, you have successfully installed Docker.

Unless you have been living under a metaphorical rock you will have heard about Docker.

If you have been following the growth of encryption on the web (https) and the fact that you can now get free SSL certificates (much like the one on this site) using Lets Encrypt, there is very little reason for not having your site running https, making…

Version control.

At Will Hall Online we always try to commit some time to developing open source projects.

Performance is important in all aspects of life, and none more than business.

A quick note this week on a potentially useful contrib module that’s got me out of a jam.

After over four years of hard work, the Drupal community was proud to announce the release of the first stable version of Drupal 8 at over two hundred release parties around the world.

We all know that Drupal Commerce is really flexible.

Last evening I presented “WordPress: Up and Running” at the Cambridge WordPress Meetup group.

This week I’ve been playing about with a neat tool by Dave Reid, called Drush Patch File, for tracking and applying patches to contrib modules on Drupal projects.

We confidently believe that Drupal 8 is going to be great for users out of the box.

This Wednesday (28th October 2015) saw DrupalCambs’ Drupal 8 release session, featuring three talks about the new version of the software.

This week has certainly been a busy week at Will Hall Online, with Stephanie and Will out of the office at two different events, The Beds SME Expo and The ARU Computer Science Employers Forum.

After, five years of development, Drupal 8.0.0-rc1 was released on October 7th 2015.

Over the recent weeks we have been restructuring the business and especially how we can measure employees performance.

We all know (well people who spend a lot of time on Drupal) that Pantheon have a great service.

I’ve recently started running a course called Computers for the Clueless (name chosen by the local education authority), which is aimed at helping people who’ve not really used computers before to be able to do some basics.

As many of you will know, this week has seen the 25th Drupal Convention, which was hosted in Barcelona.

As you’ll be able to see if you’ve visited our site on more than one occasion, we’ve recently reorganised much of our content and changed to a new style of menu.

Everybody in the Drupal community is getting very excited about the impending release of Drupal 8, however, this could also mean the end of Drupal 6!