Today I am going to teach you what a database is. You can watch the full episode at https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/204 We're going to cover the following topics: - What is data - What is a database - What is a DBMS - What is SQL - What is NoSQL

We are continuing our mini series on getting into the Software Development industry and today I'm going to discuss how to use social media to your advantage. // Recommended products and servicesManning courses and books - https://www.manning.com/?utm_source=pfwd-1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=affiliate&a_aid=pfwd-1Web hosting with Cloudways - …

Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/202 If you're wondering what you should wear to your next Software Developer interview or what questions you could ask then listen to this episode. We are going to talk about a candidates appearance and other things to do with Software Engineering interviews.…

There are certain things that Software Developers should and should not include on the CV's. Let's talk about how to write a stand out CV so that you can land your next Software Development role. // Recommended products and services Manning courses and books - https://www.manning.com/?utm_source=pfwd-1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=affiliate&a_…

In the 200th episode of the How To Code Well podcast we are going to talk about soft skill questions asked during Software Development. // Recommended products and servicesManning courses and books - https://www.manning.com/?utm_source=pfwd-1&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=affiliate&a_aid=pfwd-1Web hosting with Cloudways - https://www.cloudways.…

Let us talk about the weirdness that is currently happening in the Web Development job market and in particular focus on contracting.// Web Development tutorials and coursesLearn how to become a web developer and level up your programming skills in PHP, Python, JavaScript, Linux and more at https://howtocodewell.net JavaScript courseshttps://youtub…

Today we are going to talk about deploying a WordPress website using Docker. Word Press Docker Install https://github.com/pfwd/wordpress-install Programming tutorials: https://howtocodewell.net Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/howToCodeWell

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Today we discuss how to get WordPress off of PHP 7.4 and on to PHP 8.x with handy upgrade tips and tricks that can be applied to other PHP frameworks. Other tutorials and episodes mentioned. - 195 What's new in PHP 8.3 https://youtu.be/59JkLHx2Yq8 - 194 Ditch TypeScript https://youtu.be/0D7pfQZdak4 - How to use the PHP interactive shell https://you…

Today we are taking a look at what is new in PHP 8.3 PHP 8.3 will be released on November 23rd 2023 and has some interesting new features and breaking changes that every PHP develop should be aware of. Checkout the features, breaking changes and links to the RFCs at https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-83 Learn web development https://howtocodewell.…

Let's talk about TypeScript and when not to use it. In some cases plain JavaScript is all you need. http://www.howtocodewell.net

What do you do when you have finished all your tickets and you have two days remaining in the sprint? Send me a message: https://howtocodewell.net/contact Watch the episode: https://youtu.be/BV6sPzW4rOw Follow: Twitter https://twitter.com/howtocodewell YouTube: https://youtube.com/howtocodewell

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Today I'm talking about Microsofts Artificial Intelligence land grab, we've got more details on what happened with the FAA and I'm giving away a JetBrains license. To get the JetBrains license please send me a message on Twitter https://twitter.com/howtocodewell explaining your background in coding and what you are going to build with the JetBrains…

This should not of been allowed to happen. I have so many questions. This is not how software should be developed or deployed. Corrupt software took down the FAA system. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/software-blamed-faa-outage-three-decades-old-years-upgrade-official-sa-rcna65562 Join https://howtocodewell.net Send me a message https://howto…

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A high level roadmap for howtocodewell.net and a deep look into the web development trends of 2023. BitTo AI https://www.producthunt.com/posts/bito-ai Courses on howtocodewell.net Docker Machine https://howtocodewell.net/course/docker-machine Linux Bash for beginners https://howtocodewell.net/course/linux-bash-for-beginners PHP CLI basics https://h…

Howtocodewell.net is now live! Signup to enrol in courses PHP 8.2 is here. Check out some of the features https://laravel-news.com/php-8-2-0 Courses on howtocodewell.net Docker Machine https://howtocodewell.net/course/docker-machine Linux Bash for beginners https://howtocodewell.net/course/linux-bash-for-beginners PHP CLI basics https://howtocodewe…

Is React going anywhere? By Ruben Casas https://www.infoxicator.com/is-react-going-anywhere Why we’re leaving the cloud By David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0 Facebook hired over 15,000 new staff from January to September https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/facebook-parent-meta-doubled-staff-in-…

Change log I’ve been traveling. Recently came back from holiday. The GL- Travel route has been very useful. I need to still some time to do a full review The PIA VPN has also been really good but I’;m not during all the features yet so would like more time to play with it. I’m speaking at the PHP London user group on Thursday the 24th. The talk is …

Change log I'm traveling in the coming weeks have bought myself - Travel router GL-AXT1800 - Private internet access VPN I will be talking about how I get on with these upon my return. The federated web is not all sunshine and rainbows What is the federated web okta.com/uk/blog/2019/05/what-is-federation-and-why-should-your-apps-support-it/ 9 dark …

Change log - Having a code freeze for a few weeks :) Twitter lay offs begin Follow up on the Twitter story. It is reported that Elon has laid of nearly half of the Twitter staff. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk-fires-staff-how-many-rcna54799 EU bringing down the walled garden https://www.computerworld.com/ar…

Change log - Code Quiz is still getting some good pull requests. There are 30+ issues that need your help. If you're a JavaScript, Docker or PHP developer then checkout the GitHub issues labeled as 'Help needed' and 'Good first issues' https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz/issues - The How To Code Well platform is nearing completion. I think t…

Turbo pack Vercel have announced Turbopack which they claim will be a Rust based successor to web pack. https://vercel.com/blog/turbopack Vercel are claiming speeds of up to 10x faster than Vite and 700 time faster than Webpack. > “Turbopack only bundles the minimum assets required in development, so startup time is extremely fast. On an applicatio…

Changelog Code Quiz - We now have a Next JS website. This is also running a Docker image. No React components yet. - Docker compose files are now in the root directory Contributions welcome: https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz Ideas for the future Store Quizzes in Markdown files instead of PHP fixtures Simplified - We have a single source of…

Change log Code Quiz (https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz) OpenAPI generator is now working on the code quiz monorepo Lots of great contributions to that open source project. Thank you :) howtocodewell.net Pre-production is now fully working after a few issues with infrastructure config. I'm currently working on adding content to existing co…

Change log The first build of the http://howtocodewell.net pre-production Docker image is making its way through the GitLab pipelines towards the Kubernetes clusters The Code Quiz has paused for a week as I'm taking some time off. The Code Quiz API now includes the Open API generator which will be used to generate type script for the API client Lot…

Change log Code Quiz API https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz Thank you to MetinBaris and everyone else who has contributed to the Code Quiz project Added dotenv package Lots of bugs fixed GitHub Actions on API client EsLint added Unit tests added You're doing Agile spikes wrong Let's talk about Agile spikes. What are they, why do we need the…

Change log Code Quiz API https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz Added GitHub Actions to the JavaScript Api-Client Added API Platform package and configured the API endpoints Should beginners learn JavaScript, Python or PHP Learn the programming concepts first. It doesn’t really matter which programming language you start with as long as you STA…

Changelog The Code Quiz GitHub repository now has a basic mock API client that uses a JSON Server. This was installed on the Tuesdays Live stream Work has started on building a Vagrant box that houses MiniKube and the howtocodewell testing environments. Code Quiz GitHub Repository: https://github.com/howToCodeWell/code-quiz Building the Mock JSON A…

Change log The second Code quiz has a bunch of JavaScript questions. Join in on Twitter (https://twitter.com/howtocodewell) or Instagram (https://instagram.com/howtocodewell) The first of the code quiz answer video is out (https://youtu.be/Qmz0TvPLgpQ) Fixed the issue with the Kubernetes assets paths. This required a nginx snippet that creates a pr…

Will Web Development die in 10 years? Some people think that JavaScript, PHP, Python and other Web Development technologies will die in 10 or even 20 years time. Is HTML finished? Is it time to learn something else? In this episode I explain my thoughts and answer this question. Please let me know if you agree, disagree or if you have others https:…

Changelog Big news the staging deployment is completed for the new howtocodewell.net platform This contains Kubernetes Symfony PHP 8 Full time vs contractor web developer. 5 Reasons to be a contractor Lots of exposure to different ways of working No two clients or projects are the same Different tech stacks Different processes and approaches Lots o…

Change log I’ve created 4 JavaScript YouTube short tutorials that will be released over the coming weeks New talk coding with confidence using PHPCS. If you’re a PHP user group that wants a speaker then let me know Full time vs contractor web developer. 5 Reasons to be a permanently employed Defined Structure Benefits Training Trust and loyalty get…

Changelog I am giving a talk to PHP Minds tonight. The talk is called Code with confidence using PHPCS I’ve been working on the videoThumbnail component for the React website No updates on deployment yet News/Articles PHPCS compatibility checker By Daniel Opitz https://odan.github.io/2020/12/22/php8-compatibility-check.html PHP Security Audit https…

Changelog I've created a playground in the mono-repo for ReactJS experiments I have started working on a very lightweight design system I am giving a talk to PHP Minds next Thursday. The talk is called Code with Confidence with PHPCS PHP UK has announced their CFP and released early bird tickets. I have tickets. This weekend I am off to see England…

Changelog Lots of bitty bugs which have prevented me for progressing on the Kubernetes side of the howtocodewell.net staging deployments Lots of PHP packages on howtocodewell.net have been upgraded I was able to play around with the API platform. News/Articles API platform tutorial with Symfony https://digitalfortress.tech/tutorial/rest-api-with-sy…

Changelog Lots of JavaScript package upgrades have been made to the frontend of howtocodewell.net including TailwindCSS, PostCSS, Webpack and Node itself. I’ve decided to use PostCSS over Less and I’m seeing much faster results when generating the CSS The plan for next week is to look at composer package upgrades as well as progressing with the sta…

Changelog I’ve sorted the Kubernetes ingress controller for the staging deployment of howtocodewell.net I’ve got a few problems with connecting services outside of the Kubernetes cluster but I am working my way through those. I’ve been updating the pipelines to allow for certain manual jobs in GitLab. News/articles Python ASGI The future of Python …

Changelog My Kubernetes CronJob experiments are now working On Tuesdays live YoutTube stream we fixed issues with the PHP implementation of Object Storage On Sundays Twitch live stream we started the process of upgrading NPM packages Some news/articles to share StarLabs has teased a 4k linux laptop called the StarFighter https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk…

Change log I'm currently running experiments with Kubernetes CornJobs I've done lots of under the hood security tweaks with howtocodewell.net I've started using Jira to manage spikes and delivery tickets for the deployment stage of howtocodewell.net I've added tickets for some upgrade work, Symfony 6, NPM 16 LTS, PHP 8.1 On Tuesday we progressed th…

Changlog The deployment phase of https://howtocodewell.net staging site is going very well. I now have Kubernetes cluster is running via Terraform Why am I leaning TypeScript? I know many languages, some more than others. PHP is my goto and Python is the next biggest language I know. Of course I know JavaScript and other languages such as Java and …

Changelog On Tuesdays live show I fixed all the databases tests for the PHP Registration course I'm still playing with Gitlab pipelines Has Google created a sentient being? BBC news report Medium article with Lamda interview

Change log - I’ve started learning typescript as I want to convert all the HTCW JavaScript code into TS - I’ve started playing with a Kubernetes playground for HTCW staging - On Tuesday we started planning how to build the controllers for the PHP registration course HPDevOne Is now available to buy and some people already have them. WWDC WWDC is th…

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Please consider supporting Anna Filina's Ukrainian relatives https://afilina.com/donate/ua-supplies Other ways to support the people of Ukraine https://supportukrainenow.org I actually have 7 Software Development misconceptions that I want to debunk You have to code every day to get better at it Women cannot code Managers are sellouts who can’t cod…

Please consider supporting Anna Filina's Ukrainian relatives https://afilina.com/donate/ua-supplies Other ways to support the people of Ukraine https://supportukrainenow.org Change log PHP login course is has been tagged at v1.0.0 Most of the SQL for PHP registration course is done Cypress tests are now running in the GitLab pipeline by they are ve…

Please consider supporting Anna Filina's Ukrainian relatives https://afilina.com/donate/ua-supplies Other ways to support the people of Ukraine https://supportukrainenow.org Change log Due to the traveling we didn’t get to do the Twitch Live stream on Sunday so I’m hoping to finish the PHP login course off this Sunday (15th) On Tuesdays (12th) YouT…

Please consider supporting Anna Filina's Ukrainian relatives https://afilina.com/donate/ua-supplies Other ways to support the people of Ukraine https://supportukrainenow.org Changelog - This is another pre recorded show as I am traveling over the next few days. - On Mondays Twitch stream we covered lessons 6, 7 and 8 of the PHP login course. I am p…

Changelog Speaking at PHP UG MN on Thursday so this is not a live podcast On Sundays Twitch stream we re-built the first 5 lessons of the PHP login course. I’m planning to re-build the last four lessons on Monday on Twitch On Tuesdays YouTube live stream we started planning the new PHP registration course. Lots of experimenting with GitLab 10 tips …