Sometimes i like to give presentations about different subjects. Want me to present at your meetup/conference/etc? Drop me an e-mail at [email protected].
Current subjects i have available for presentations:
This was a sort of presentation without any preparation: I came up with the subject in the morning and pitched it on the unconference wall. I got enough votes, so later on the day, I was talking about this. I asked all people that were in the room for input. It ended up being an interesting chat about Continous Integration, with some specific examples and a little bit about deployments.
I have built a custom frontend for Magento on the TALL stack (Tailwind, AlpineJS, Livewire and Laravel). In this presentation i will give you an insight in how i came to this idea, how the code looks like and why it feels like a breath of fresh air.
Click here to view the video of this presentation.
We all know we should do it. But where to start? What should we test? Do i need a CI pipeline to test? How to convince the manager to spend time on testing?
These are all valid questions, and i hope to answer them all for you. I've been adding tests to my code for a few years now, and i'm at the point where adding tests speed up my development instead of slowing it down. But the road to this point can be bumpy. I hope to give you a head start and improve your code.
Writing cronjobs can be hard. The environment where it is executed is different. You have to make sure you cronjob doesn’t get executed multiple times. The output is hard to control. How handle errors? I’m going to show you a better way using software you already used: Jenkins.
Cronjobs are a great feature of applications of any size. They allow all kinds of stuff: imports, exports, background processing, etc. But managing cronjobs can be hard. Some common problems developers encounter when trying to manage cronjobs:
The environment is different. Paths and executables may be different and not available.
It is possible that cronjobs overlap and bring your server to it’s knees.
What about output? How to handle that?
Jenkins is most known for it’s Continuous Integration capabilities. But did you know you can also use it to execute other tasks? It’s a great fit to manage your cronjobs. Only need an e-mail when an task fails? It’s just configuration! You want to check the queue size on your clients server? Build a mysql query and execute it.
It gives you a great flexibility over managing your cronjobs.
