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Posted on 20 June 2023
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Custom docker image in AWS ECR used in GitHub Actions
Running a test suite in your CI pipeline is critical but I was recently tasked with getting a test suite running without having the luxury of using database factories or seeders for a variety of reasons. Another approach which I decided to use, was to pre-seed a database with test data and create a custom docker image.
Posted on 26 August 2022
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Moving from GitLab pipeline to GitHub Actions for CI/CD
I've been using my self-hosted GitLab instance for my git repos and pipelines for 5 or so years now, but things have changed and I've decided I no longer want to run my self-hosted instance any more. It's purely for hobby/self projects and only accessed by myself, however, one bonus of this is that I also self-host a dockerised GitLab runner that performed all of my CI/CD duties, including the deployment stage, which is the important part.
Posted on 29 April 2021
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Integrating HaveIBeenPwned into Laravel Fortify
TheHaveIBeenPwnedservice provided by Troy Hunt contains a whole trove of breach information. It enables you to look up single email address, whole domains and whether a password has been seen in a data breach, for example. It's the latter one that we're interested in for this feature. Let's implement this using theicawebdesign/hibp-phpframework-agostic composer package.
Posted on 29 December 2020
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PhpStorm cannot find autoload.php in Docker container under WSL2
Docker for Windows has recently improved by utilising the WSL2 backend rather than Hyper-V. The performance gains with this are big, and seeing as I use Windows as my main dev environment, wanted to utilise this myself so made the swap.
Posted on 21 October 2018
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PHP, Docker, Xdebug and the missing local variables
I've made a switch in the last 12 months to use Docker as my local development environment for my PHP applications. One of the greatest modules for PHP IMHO, isXdebug. Many moons ago, I used to frantically hack invar_dump(...); exit;calls to see what a particular variable, object, array, etc contained.
Posted on 14 March 2018
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Nginx behind Apache reverse proxy with access restrictions
I have a couple of sites that are sitting behind Basic HTTP Authentication restrictions. They're simple applications that don't need full-blown built-in access control and are served over HTTPS, so Basic HTTP Auth serves just fine as a restriction control.

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