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A collection of 26 posts

eVitabu dev week

eVitabu dev week, January 2024

A summary of the development progress made in January 2024's dev week.

AI

Using Microsoft Co-pilot to help retrieve a password

After forgetting a password that I needed, but being certain I remembered bits of it, I turned to Microsoft Co-pilot to help me write a script to brute force the password.

eVitabu dev week

eVitabu dev week, March 2023

Progress made during the eVitabu dev week in March 2023.

android

Android ProGuard & Serialisation - exempting files from obfuscation

After battling with a problem involving obfuscated variables I wanted to share the solution.

Developing tests

Developing tests: introduction

Testing software is important, and can validate that things work as planned (or at all). Let's look at software testing in more details.

hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest 2021

I didn't leave it to the last minute this year, woohoo! Ok, I'm kidding.  As regular readers will know from posts about this [https://blog.jonsdocs.org.uk/tag/hacktoberfest/], Hacktoberfest is something I always end up leaving to the last minute.  This year I started

eVitabu dev week

eVitabu dev week October 2021

A run down of my October 2021 eVitabu development week.

hacking my old blog

Hacking my old blog: part 4, security fixes

To finish off the series, I discuss some of the mechanisms that could have been used to protect my old blog.

hacking my old blog

Hacking my old blog: part 3

The final post in the attack phase of this series.

hacking my old blog

Hacking my old blog: part 2

Let's get into the admin panel...

hacking my old blog

Hacking my old blog: part 1

A dig around my old blog to see if I can hack it.

development

Android code clean-up: concatenating strings with setText

The Android Studio code inspector is a useful tool for maturing your code and improving your style.

development

Android: Opening URIs using Intent - protocol case matters

Protocols need to be lower case in URIs used in Android, so why doesn' Android make sure they are?!

how to

Upgrading Yii2 to use Codeception 4.1.6+

The upgrade process from earlier versions of Codeception for Yii2 is very easy.

development

Improving your site with Lighthouse and Cloudflare

Chrome's Lighthouse tool is really handy for improving your website and Cloudflare provides additional performance and security benefits.

development

Passwords as technical debt

Passwords aren't going away...

how to

Yii2: Moving to Bootstrap 4

How to update Yii2's Bootstrap templates to version 4.

development

How I became a developer

My journey into programming.

eVitabu

Why we chose OAuth for eVitabu

User authentication is an important consideration when designing any system. Here's how we decided to use OAuth for eVitabu.

development

Hacktoberfest 2019

My Hacktoberfest 2019 experience.

eVitabu dev week

Days 4 & 5: eVitabu dev week (July 2019)

July 2019's dev week ended successfully with updates to both the Android app and the web management interface.

eVitabu dev week

Days 1 - 3: eVitabu dev week (July 2019)

The first few of days of July 2019's eVitabu development week.

eVitabu dev week

eVitabu development week, Feb 2019

I spent a week working on eVitabu full time. Here's some highlights.

development

Android and Firebase - signing with the right keys

After moving my Android development environment I found I couldn't authenticate with Firebase any more. This post explains the solution.

development

My Hacktoberfest 2018 experience

In 2018 I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. This is my experience.