The latest articles on DEV Community by Ryan McGovern (@tekgadgt). https://dev.to/tekgadgt https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F99851%2F8778be01-0cf0-4ca0-bdce-dd27e2a0e069.png https://dev.to/tekgadgt en Ryan McGovern Mon, 22 Jul 2019 02:42:22 +0000 https://dev.to/tekgadgt/my-first-development-job-47mh https://dev.to/tekgadgt/my-first-development-job-47mh <p>I recently started my first job in the development world. I am a Junior Apprentice at Maxx Potential. While we have many different types of projects in the technology field, I have been primarily working on development and code maintenance projects.</p> <p>So far I have worked with Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, and Vagrant for development environments. They are definitely interesting. If you ever really want to learn Docker, convert a custom Docker Compose setup to be Docker Swarm friendly. </p> <p>As far as languages are concerned, I have been working primarily with PHP for an extension of the WordPress plugin Elementor. Elementor is extremely powerful, however it is rather under documented, so it has also been a pretty solid learning experience. Along with learning Elementor, I was also required to learn PHPUnit unit testing. This was without a doubt the most difficult part of the process, however it forced me to learn that I need to be able to test my own code.</p> <p>This post has been more of an update regarding what I am doing right now and unfortunately does not really cover any interesting code work. So I think I'll just mark it as discuss and ask if anyone else just started their first job in the industry and would like to talk about it a bit. Expect more from me soon, still figuring this blogging thing out.</p> discuss Ryan McGovern Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:22:32 +0000 https://dev.to/tekgadgt/new-to-blogging-40fl https://dev.to/tekgadgt/new-to-blogging-40fl <p>I have written a handful of news stories for College publications and other blogs, however I have never run my own blog with the intent of sharing my experiences before. Most of my previous content has been technology reviews, such as one on Phonebloks^[1].</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--VfEGlVVC--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://blog.ryan.devportfol.io/content/images/2019/04/component.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--VfEGlVVC--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://blog.ryan.devportfol.io/content/images/2019/04/component.png" alt="Phonebloks concept image"></a>Phonebloks is an idea for a modular phone.</p> <p>This blog is intended to be not only be a tie in with my <a href="https://ryan.devportfol.io/">portfolio site</a>, but also an avenue for me to share my journey as I work towards making DevPortfol.io a legitimate business. With DevPortfol.io, I would like to create an end to end Development portfolio domain, hosting, and building platform. So far I have acquired the domain name, I have my portfolio, GitLab, and this blog running on it, and working on fleshing out concepts for the main website and the builder. </p> <h2> What is currently available on DevPortfol.io? </h2> <p>For now, I am allowing people to claim a free subdomain of devportfol.io, devresu.me, devg.it, codev.space, or devfolio.blog. All you have to do is email me at <a href="mailto:tekgadgt@devportfol.io">tekgadgt@devportfol.io</a>. Make sure to include the subdomain you would like, as well as where you would like to point it. If you would like to host your portfolio or git on my servers, please include this inquiry in your email. Set pricing for hosting has not been established at this time.</p> <h2> Moving forward </h2> <p>If you would like to follow my progress with this company, as I progress through my career, and as I work on other progress, check back here or at <a href="https://blog.ryan.devportfol.io/">https://blog.ryan.devportfol.io/</a> regularly for updates.</p> <p><em>This post has been changed slightly from my original blog post to include more recently acquired domains in my suite. I have plans for, and am working on, building a platform based around all of them.</em></p> <ol> <li><a href="https://phonebloks.com/">Phonebloks</a></li> </ol> firstpost new freesubdomain