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Here, you'll find articles to help you improve your web development skills, regardless of whether you're building them with PHP or Go, or need to grow your DevOps skills.
There are also articles about creating technical content too.

An Initial Sphinx-Doc Workflow
Tue, Mar 7, 2017

An Initial Sphinx-Doc Workflow

Do you use Sphinx-Doc and reStructuredText to manage your project’s technical documentation? Do you find that it’s a lot of work to ensure content validates and renders correctly? If so, this post walks through an initial workflow which seeks to make the process easier and more efficient.

Don't Ramp Up - Get Stuck In and Create Magic
Wed, Mar 1, 2017

Don't Ramp Up - Get Stuck In and Create Magic

Do you have something that you feel passionate about, something that you’d love to see realised? If so, how are you using your time? Are you using it effectively? Or are you, in fact, throwing so much of it away on pointless, trivial, tasks, by ramping up every day? Come learn what ramping up is, and why it’s costing you your success.

Sometimes, Answers Lie In Plain Sight
Tue, Jan 10, 2017

Sometimes, Answers Lie In Plain Sight

Have you ever been stuck on a problem and thought that the answer had to be complex or sophisticated. Did you ultimately find that you overcomplicated the situation? If you do, don’t fret. It happens to all of us at times. Come with me today, as we consider how to not get lost in complicated answers to simple questions.

Tue, Dec 27, 2016

Looking Back On 2016 / Coming Up In 2017

Well, here we are, just after Christmas in 2016, and New Years is right around the corner. It’s time to take a moment to reflect on what was, and look ahead to what may come.

How To Use Forked Repositories In Composer
Tue, Dec 20, 2016

How To Use Forked Repositories In Composer

How well do you really know Composer? Do you just know composer install, update, and require, and some of the composer.json configuration? Or do you really know it? Here, in the third part of the Composer series, we’ll see how to use forked repositories, instead of the canonical sources.

How To Automate Projects Using Composer Scripts
Tue, Dec 6, 2016

How To Automate Projects Using Composer Scripts

How well do you really know Composer? Do you just know composer install, update, and require, and some of the composer.json configuration? Or do you really know it? Here, in the second part of the Composer series, we’ll look at the scripts section of composer.json.


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