Ainsofs Blog: Technology insights from the Pacific Islands

Thinking of using Gitpod as your Cloud IDE? Read this first... I'm preparing for a hands-on coding workshop and wanted my participants to get coding as fast as they can. I decided to leverage Gitpod as a Cloud IDE. Here’s how I set it up including challenges I encountered and their remedies. 🧑‍💻 Gitpod Gitpod is a tool I've been using to set up an isolated development (dev) environment for troubleshooting. I have relied on ready made repositories from the open source community, but now was a chance to dive deeper. 🐳 Docker Compose Ready My repository uses docker and docker compose. Docker is great for providing consistent dev environments across multiple developers. It's also great for isolating your project from other projects on your machine so you can mix and match your tools. I dived straight in and got my repository loaded on Gitpod. Gitpods default image  supports docker, docker compose, php, and node out of the box. So it was as simple as running ‘docker compose u...

Talofa! I came across an interesting video on how enterprise software development workflows might work. I found that I was using a hybrid of techniques mentioned which aligned well given that it was showing how BIG companies with teams of developers would develop software. We have a few software developers at SPREP but mostly work on our own projects . I thought I would reflect on my workflow as it is something that I've built up over time from research and collaboration with other developers. Tests, Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) My workflow involves setting up tests from the get go and putting them into Gitlab CI pipelines . This gives me confidence that the system builds and I'm not breaking stuff I already fixed . Here is an example of how I would set up a Drupal project with style tests and a Github Action for running them. Feature building with Git branches I build features using git branches . If I have an urgent requirement or fix , I can switch ...