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Some build pipelines have steps which are only triggered if a certain phrase is contained in the commit message. The problem is sometimes e.

In June I attended a DevOps conference in Barcelona. Whilst I work in web development, I have a growing interest in DevOps which is mainly due to my previous career in supply chain and lean.

Time really does fly. As I write this, I have unlocked the two year milestone of working as a professional software engineer.

Python is a wonderful language for beginners but I remember when starting out how Pip, the defacto package manager for Python (at least at the time) didn’t seem as fully featured as others such as npm.

Adding code snippets in your IDE are a great way of saving key strokes on code that you often use.

Working with version control is a must for good software development. I use git personally and at work. The GUI in VS Code is good for some git work e.

As I reflect on 2018, there were three programming books I enjoyed reading and learned a lot from. I thought I would share my summary of each book.

I always try to work following Test Driven Development. I recently used Pytest to write some unit tests and discovered a couple of neat tricks from a work colleague.

At work recently I had to add some getters and setters to enable user’s responses to a question being persisted to the database.

Learning some TypeScript has been on my to do list for sometime. I finally found some time and started by reading the docs to get familiar with it.