Blog

August 08, 2022

Its been over 2 years since I wrote about this; in that time Microsoft has moved from ADAL to MSAL and so it was a good time to revisit this topic.

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April 05, 2022

Learn how to publish to GitHub packages, package scoping, making your packages private and consuming them.

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January 28, 2022

Understanding how to build your own NPM modules can enable your development teams to share common pieces of code across multiple applications.

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May 30, 2021

There are many state management libraries available for React but what if I told you that the best way of managing application state is actually built into React.

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December 09, 2020

AWS Amplify is fantastic; it has never been easier to build and provision a cloud-based, full-stack, web application. We can easily create an API using AppSync and have it just work but what happens when you need to perform additional logic?

August 26, 2020

I'm finding CDK really enjoyable to pick up and understand. Come find out how to set up your static sites and single page applications using it.

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August 16, 2020

It has been just under a year since I wrote my initial about deploying static sites to AWS via Github Actions and a number of things have changed since then. I discuss my process for deploying static sites using Github Actions and whats changed since the initial version of the article.

July 16, 2020

It has come time for the annual website redesign and refresh. I discuss why I wanted to refresh my website, what I used to build it and what exciting new features you can expect to see in the coming months.

July 13, 2020

I came across an interesting problem where I needed to access a piece of React state when unmounting a component, a problem that would have been trivial with Class components and componentWillUnmount, however with hooks, the solution was less clear.

May 05, 2020

Cypress is a browser-based, end-to-end testing framework that is enjoyable to use however I ran into some difficulty trying to authenticate with Azure Active Directory in my tests. Find out what I did to fix it!

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April 28, 2020

CSS Grid is one of my favourite tools for building your web layouts. I examine where we have come from in terms of web layouts and what you need to know to start building your own.

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August 31, 2019

I was fortunate enough to get a beta invite to Github Actions earlier this week so I figured I would try to deploy a static website to AWS. I also look at the Actions building blocks and keeping your secrets secret.