Upgrade to Gatsby and AWS

It’s been over a year since I last blogged, there are a number of reasons: Broken realease pipeline (well not quite but it was messy) I wanted to move everything to docker I hated the way the blog looked A few weeks ago I started to the move to GatsbyJS after a few false starts I finally got there. Once I had everything migrated including updating all the frontmatter (this took ages), I was ready to deploy it....

June 7, 2020 · 2 min · Mike Bell

Windows 10 isn't that bad to develop with

After upgrading to Windows 10 finally I figured I’d check out what it’s like developing on Windows 10 and to be honest it isn’t that bad. Windows Subsystem Linux I installed the Ubuntu image and switch shell to ZSH. After importing all my dotfiles and setup from my Linux machine this works really well. A quick symlink form ~/Projects to /mnt/c/Users/digital/Projects makes it really easy to open it up and then start working on a project....

February 13, 2019 · 2 min · Mike Bell

Vagrant Boxes for Drupal Development

During my time off I figured I’d get my dev environment setup for when I start at CTI. Using the really great puphpet.com I’ve created two new vagrant configs, the first is for Apache the second is for Nginx. The Changes Removed xhprof and dot file support Added an easier way to provision new vhosts and dbs. Added drush Internals Ubuntu 12.04 PHP 5.3 Usage 1 2 3 git clone git@github....

August 10, 2013 · 1 min · Mike Bell