Gary Bell

A Senior Developer working mostly with PHP and JavaScript, with a bit of Python thrown in for good measure, all on Linux. My tooling is simple, it's GitLab and JetBrains where possible.

Swansea, UK Joined on Jun 9, 2020 https://www.garybell.co.uk

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Senior Developer

PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

Python
Vue.js
CI/CD
DevOps (Ansible)

41 posts published

279 comments written

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Gary Bell

Mar 1 '21

Why you should keep an eye on the job market

#career

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Gary Bell

Feb 22 '21

PHP Static Site Generators (Twig Templates)

#php

7 min read

Gary Bell

Feb 15 '21

Test and Trace - A failure in IT procurement?

9 min read

Gary Bell

Feb 12 '21

Project Wikis - Share knowledge from the start

#gitlab

3 min read

Gary Bell

Feb 8 '21

Using Gitpod to start a new project

6 min read

Gary Bell

Feb 5 '21

Using Keyboard Shortcuts in GitLab

#gitlab

3 min read

Gary Bell

Feb 1 '21

Static Site Generators

2 min read

Gary Bell

Jan 29 '21

Merge Request Templates

#gitlab

3 min read

Gary Bell

Jan 25 '21

Are mobile workstations dead?

4 min read

Gary Bell

Jan 22 '21

Quick Actions in GitLab

#gitlab

5 min read

Gary Bell

Jan 18 '21

Updating CI pipelines to allow PHP8

#gitlab #ci #php

3 min read

Gary Bell

Jan 15 '21

GitLab Scoped Labels

#gitlab

4 min read

Gary Bell

Jan 14 '21

This was crated via the API

#gitlab

2 min read

Gary Bell

Jan 11 '21

How to start blogging

#writing

9 min read

Gary Bell

Jan 8 '21

Issue Templates

#gitlab

4 min read

Gary Bell

Jan 3 '21

My Goals for 2021

4 min read

Gary Bell

Dec 3 '20

What level of test coverage do you aim for?

#discuss #testing #watercooler

1 min read

Gary Bell

Nov 27 '20

Why a MacBook might be the perfect development device

4 min read

Gary Bell

Nov 20 '20

Upgrading to Composer 2 using Ansible

#ansible #devops

3 min read

Gary Bell

Nov 12 '20

Upgrading to Composer 2

#php

6 min read

Gary Bell

Nov 11 '20

Jenkins Disk Space Usage

#ci #cd #devops #jenkins

1 min read

Gary Bell

Nov 3 '20

Laptops - what is more important?

#discuss #watercooler

1 min read

Gary Bell

Oct 30 '20

4 weeks until Black Friday - what are you hoping is reduced?

#discuss #watercooler

1 min read

Gary Bell

Oct 25 '20

Keyboards - Full size, TKL, or other?

#discuss #watercooler

1 min read

Gary Bell

Oct 22 '20

Keyboards - Does backlighting matter?

#discuss #watercooler

1 min read

Gary Bell

Oct 14 '20

Getting started with GitLab's Cloud Development Kit

#git #opensource

6 min read

Gary Bell

Oct 9 '20

Never Trust User Input

#security #php #sql

3 min read

Gary Bell

Oct 4 '20

Do you create video content?

#discuss #watercooler

1 min read

Gary Bell

Sep 20 '20

When did you transision to MacOS and how did you find it?

#watercooler #discuss

1 min read

Gary Bell

Jul 23 '20

Doctrine DBAL and the LIKE operator

#php #doctrine

2 min read

Gary Bell

Jul 16 '20

Coding basics: DRY programming

#codenewbie #codequality #refactorit

5 min read

Gary Bell

Jul 14 '20

How far in advance do you plan your blog posts?

#discuss

1 min read

Gary Bell

Jul 9 '20

Wired networks are dead. Long live wired networks

#network #hardware

2 min read

Gary Bell

Jul 8 '20

HTTP status codes and their uses

#http #response

5 min read

Gary Bell

Jul 3 '20

Symfony unit tests with Redis on GitLab

#devops #symfony #redis

2 min read

Gary Bell

Jun 30 '20

How to configure your CI pipeline environments

#ci #cd #devops

2 min read

Gary Bell

Jun 16 '20

Test your deployment tasks

#ci #cd #devops

2 min read

Gary Bell

Jun 15 '20

Why GitHub renaming master is good

#github #git

4 min read

Gary Bell

Jun 11 '20

How to quickly upgrade MariaDB on Ubuntu

#ubuntu #mariadb

1 min read

Gary Bell

Jun 11 '20

CI/CD with Gitlab - Getting started

#ci #cd #devops #gitlab

3 min read

Gary Bell

Jun 9 '20

A late introduction to continuous integration and deployment

#ci #cd #devops

4 min read

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