Static publishing
Last time in the series on Hugo, we looked at translation, in this post we’ll continue with our site and
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Network fonts
Introduction Ever wanted to change the font of your Moodle installation, but don’t want to change the code? If so,
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Static translate
Last time in the series on Hugo, we looked at using the ‘Bootstrap’ framework, in this post we’ll continue with
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PHP 8.0 Model Classes with constructor promotion
Let’s start with what I mean by “Model Class”. A “Model Class” is nothing more than a class used to
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Debugging SCSS
Introduction You’re customising your Moodle site using CSS / SCSS, perhaps with a plugin or in theme, then suddenly your
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Settings transfer
Introduction A long time ago, seven and a half years or so, when I was involved with and maintaining the
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PHP 8 constructor promotion with inheritance (subclasses)
PHP 8 has this amazing feature called “constructor promotion” that allows you to define the properties of a class and
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What is a developer?
In our world these days we interact with advanced machines, machines that are the result of centuries of human tool development. They are complex and require careful configuration to ensure that they operate in the way we intend them to do so. There are many ‘configurations’ with varying levels of complexity. Take the software that runs on the machine, that is a ‘configuration’ that is instructions that tell the machine what to do, and yet that has a ‘configuration’ too, a set of values associated with the particular operational functionality of the software, the settings. Hopefully that configuration you can manage yourself from the information provided to you by the developer (or via a technical writer) on what each setting does. But what of the actual software? How is this created? What is this mysterious person ‘The Developer’?
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Can Chat GPT really replace a coder?
When I heard that Chat GPT was capable of writing code, I was immediately sceptical. I have tried a couple
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