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• Getting the pull requests

  By GreenChapel John on October 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  So the task for the evening is to allow the user to drill down into a selected repository from within the list repo’s page. To start with a little UI tweak to capture the user clicking the card seems the… Read More ›

• GitOps

  By GreenChapel John on October 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  So what is GitOps you may ask? Firstly, I wouldn’t say that GitOps is a particularly new concept. GitOps is more of a re-badging of some existing processes that are combined together. The main idea behind GitOps is that it… Read More ›

• Adding a favourites option

  By GreenChapel John on October 11, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  So I wanted to add a favourites option to the list of repos in the form of “staring” the favourite repositories. The Idea with creating a favourites option is that I’ll show the favourite repositories on the home page so… Read More ›

• CodeCommit app – Market research

  By GreenChapel John on October 11, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  So a little bit of feedback on the existing applications in this sort of domain. All these apps are ones I have or still work with. They all work well and I would normally recommend them all for day to… Read More ›

• Common Developer Mistakes

  By GreenChapel John on October 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  As a senior developer I often see the same mistakes while I’m reviewing things like systems, processes and code. In this article I will try and explain some of them and the mitigations you can put in place to help… Read More ›

• Routing the app

  By GreenChapel John on October 8, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Creating a new component in Angular is easy, this will generate some boilerplate code. By default it will setup the HTML, CSS/SCSS, TS, and Spec. Angular will also add the newly created component to the imports of the main app… Read More ›

• App Base UI Layout

  By GreenChapel John on October 7, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  So progress so far has only been done to test out the AWS CodeCommit SDK library but this may as well have been a command line application and that wont be of any particular benefit to an end user. Since… Read More ›

• Checking the SDK works

  By GreenChapel John on October 6, 2021 • ( 1 )

  So one of the most import things for this project is making sure it works with the AWS SDK libraries and I need to make sure that the libraries I could use did also have all the features needed to… Read More ›

• Productivity Improvements

  By GreenChapel John on October 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Productivity is a huge topic in the software world, in this post I try to capture some of my favourite ways to be a really productive developer. Context Switching Avoid context switching as much as possible! Changing between tasks, answering… Read More ›

• Starting of a new app

  By GreenChapel John on October 4, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  So over the last few weeks and months I have been playing around with a number of software application and SaaS product ideas, its taken me a little while to actually psych myself up to actually do something about it…. Read More ›