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Continue reading →: National Apprenticeship Week 2023
Monday 6th February 2023 sees the start of National Apprenticeship Week in the UK, giving me an opportunity to write about my apprenticeship learning. My Previous Apprenticeships When I left high school (quite some time ago now) I didn’t really know what I wanted to do and although I was academic,…
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Continue reading →: Rubber Duck Debugging / Rubber Ducking (DevOps)
Thinking of the term Rubber Duck brings my mind to two things, Ernie from Sesame Street singing in the bath and the USB Rubber Ducky that looks like a regular USB pen drive but does a lot more. So what’s Rubber Duck Debugging and does it involve singing in the…
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Continue reading →: Pareto Principle aka 80/20 Rule (DevOps)
I am attempting to improve my coding skills with some optimisation and came across the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule. Although not just a coding / DevOps rule, as it’s background is in economy, the Pareto Principle fits code efficiency very well (or efficiently). So what is…
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Continue reading →: Semantic Versioning (DevOps)
You may have noticed that programs, apps and libraries for your favourite code may use a numbering system that is not just sequential whole numbers. For example, a look at a Python requirements.txt file shows the Python libraries in use and the version. This is called semantic versioning. What Does…
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Continue reading →: What Is Technical Debt? (DevOps)
Just as financial systems have financial systems have financial debt, technical systems have technical debt. Technical debt is a shortcut taken to help quickly launch a feature or meet an urgent deadline. When the shortcut is used, it is generally with the intention of revisiting the work later on to…
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Continue reading →: Adding Badges To Read Me File (GitHub)
Ever wanted to add one of those badges that say “passing”, or even “failing” to your GitHub repositories README file? I recently created a project and had GitHub Actions run tests on the project so I could get an automatic notification if any changes broke my project. One option I…
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Continue reading →: Generating / Reading QR Codes via Python (Python)A blog post looking at using Python to create or read QR Codes.
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Continue reading →: Azure Load Testing (Azure)
In this blog post I am going to look Azure Load Testing, using it to test how much my web application can take before it breaks. I am currently hosting my Flask (Python) web application within Microsoft Azure. Orignally I tried to go with the cheapest compute option I could…
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Continue reading →: An Asset WebApp (Flask / Python)
The Software Engineering & Agile module of my degree apprenticeship is coming to a close. With that in mind I think I can now share the coding I’ve done for the assignment especially as I needed to store it in a public repository (it’s on my GitHub at https://github.com/geektechdude/qa-se-webapp )…
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Continue reading →: Running Flask As A Linux Service (Linux / Python)
Continuing on with the Software Engineering & Agile module of my degree, I need to be able to show my Flask web application running. After picking a cloud platform (in this case Azure) I git cloned my repository to the Linux Ubuntu instance that will be running it and realised…
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