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A couple of weeks ago I attended ComponentsConf 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. This conference focuses on JavaScript frameworks and libraries, and I was pretty excited to attend it. This is because over the last year I have been working on a component library to be shared across a number of projects. It needs to work in everything from Drupal to Angular, and we're still trying to find the best foundation to build it on. A conference that is framework-agnostic seemed like a good place to learn more about the options that are available.

26 September, 2019 /

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Disclaimer: this approach won’t be suitable for everybody, please factor in your particular requirements before using it.

The Why

Towards the end of 2018, our client started to move our codebase from AngularJS to Angular 7+ (now 8). While this, in itself, is a great move, it completely broke our A/B testing capabilities. (What's A/B Testing?) Implementing deep changes  to our Angular applications would be much more challenging. The methods we used to amend code on bootstrap of AngularJS applications are no longer available in Angular2+. If you are interested in A/B testing in AngularJS applications, you can read about our previous approach and Adobe setup.While some A/B testing can, and should, be done from the backend, this article will focus on the frontend approach.
07 August, 2019 /

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AppSync integrates seamlessly with a DynamoDB database. And as demonstrated in my previous article, AWS Amplify CLI can create the DynamoDB tables and generate the API CloudFormation infrastructure from an annotated GraphQL schema. However, using a relational data source with AppSync is more complex as...

10 January, 2019 /

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PictureWondering what DDD stands for? Well, DDD stands for Developers Developers Developers! (presumably taken from this famous Steve Ballmers on-stage chant) It is an inclusive, non-profit conference for the software community. This year, DDD Melbourne was held on 15th September 2018 at Town Hall in Melbourne CBD. It was a one-day conference which started at 9:00am and concluded at 5:15pm. Personally, I thought the conference was very well-organized and at $79, it was affordable and being held on a Saturday meant I didn’t have to talk a day off work either. Based on what you fancy, there were several talks to choose from. The agenda, which was finalised after attendees voted on the talks, can be found here.  
01 November, 2018 /

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Introduction

A website may have hundreds, thousands, or even millions, of public facing pages. When we are responsible for maintaining such a website, it's impractical to traverse it manually looking for broken links. We need an automated testing tool: one which can scan the whole website and log any broken links, so we can get them fixed sooner rather than later.In this blog, I am going to describe a web crawler project which can easily and efficiently achieve the goal. The primary technologies used in this project are Scrapy and Docker.
13 September, 2018 /

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It was early morning rush hour on Friday, June 22nd, and the Melbourne winter sun shone on my face. I was attending Angular Conf Australia, being held at South Wharf. Arriving with just enough time to spare, I looked around the conference venue and had a quick chat with some of the participants.After a slight delay, the conference kicked-off with a quick thanks to sponsors and supporters. In this post I'm going to give you a rundown of what I saw next.
19 July, 2018 /

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