I am always looking for opportunities to push myself as a developer so have been looking for opportunities to write more JavaScript. I’ve been dabbling in ReactJS and the static site generator GatsbyJS, but to date, I haven’t had much of an opportunity to do this in work.

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A full-scale accessibility audit is costly, time consuming and most importantly, necessary. Additional regulations introduced in 2018 require public bodies, such as a university, to include accessibility statements on all of their sites.

I was acutely aware that our previous working practices would not transition to a fully remote setup. We are a small team of three developers who are already semi-remote.

At the University of Edinburgh, we are moving our self-hosted instance of Blackboard Learn to a SaaS instance. In preparation for this move, we needed to upgrade a number of our Learn building blocks to the latest version, to ensure they would be supported on the new SaaS platform.

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In 2011 developers from Heroku developed the Twelve-Factor App Methodology, a list of best practices for portability and resillience of web applications. Heroku recommend you should store configuration differences between deployments in the applications environment.

The difference between or and || are not well understood by many PHP developers. On the surface, the operators appear to be interchangeable but this is not correct. Understanding the difference between these operators will make you a better developer.

How to disable first and last name edits in WordPress.