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Coding with JetBrains AI as a partner

I've spent some more time developing eVitabu, and thought I'd give JetBrains AI a try.

Photograph of a man holding a tablet with eVitabu and APF logos on it. Africa is shown in the background,

eVitabu dev week

eVitabu dev week, January 2024

A summary of the development progress made in January 2024's dev week.

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Using Microsoft Co-pilot to help retrieve a password

After forgetting a password that I needed, but being certain I remembered bits of it, I turned to Microsoft Co-pilot to help me write a script to brute force the password.

"ISC2 Spotlight" written in white on a green background, with "secure software development" in blue on a white background.

ISC2 Secure Software Development

ISC2 Spotlight: Secure Software Development conference - day two

Yesterday's conference sessions were interesting (you can read about them here), and today is the last day of the conference. Today's agenda: * Secure by Design: CISA's Plan to Foster Tech Ecosystem Security * SigStore to Secure the Code Supply Chain * What You Need to Know

"ISC2 Spotlight" written in white on a green background, with "secure software development" in blue on a white background.

ISC2 Secure Software Development

ISC2 Spotlight: Secure Software Development conference - day one

ISC2 (formerly (ISC)²) ran an online only "spotlight" (conference) on secure software development this week on the 8th and 9th of November. As this directly aligned to my work's industry (I work for a software development company), I took the time to attend this. ISC2 members

Photograph of a man holding a tablet with eVitabu and APF logos on it. Africa is shown in the background,

eVitabu dev week

eVitabu dev week, March 2023

Progress made during the eVitabu dev week in March 2023.

Left:Green Android robot.Right:the same robot with its body jumbled up.Centre is a wiggly arrow & the word "Obfuscate..."

Android ProGuard & Serialisation - exempting files from obfuscation

After battling with a problem involving obfuscated variables I wanted to share the solution.

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Developing tests

Developing tests: introduction

Testing software is important, and can validate that things work as planned (or at all). Let's look at software testing in more details.

Hacktoberfest 2021

Hacktoberfest 2021

I didn't leave it to the last minute this year, woohoo! Ok, I'm kidding. As regular readers will know from posts about this [https://blog.jonsdocs.org.uk/tag/hacktoberfest/], Hacktoberfest is something I always end up leaving to the last minute. This year I started

eVitabu dev week October 2021

eVitabu dev week

eVitabu dev week October 2021

A run down of my October 2021 eVitabu development week.

Hacking my old blog: part 4, security fixes

hacking my old blog

Hacking my old blog: part 4, security fixes

To finish off the series, I discuss some of the mechanisms that could have been used to protect my old blog.

Hacking my old blog: part 3

hacking my old blog

Hacking my old blog: part 3

The final post in the attack phase of this series.

Hacking my old blog: part 2

hacking my old blog

Hacking my old blog: part 2

Let's get into the admin panel...

Hacking my old blog: part 1

hacking my old blog

Hacking my old blog: part 1

A dig around my old blog to see if I can hack it.

Android code clean-up: concatenating strings with setText

Android code clean-up: concatenating strings with setText

The Android Studio code inspector is a useful tool for maturing your code and improving your style.

Android: Opening URIs using Intent - protocol case matters

Android: Opening URIs using Intent - protocol case matters

Protocols need to be lower case in URIs used in Android, so why doesn' Android make sure they are?!

Hacktoberfest 2020

Hacktoberfest 2020

Hacktoberfest has become a yearly feature in my diary since I participated in my first one [https://blog.jonsdocs.org.uk/2019/01/08/my-hacktoberfest-2018-experience/] two years ago. This year's event is something I've been looking forward to since probably early February and, given how the

Upgrading Yii2 to use Codeception 4.1.6+

Upgrading Yii2 to use Codeception 4.1.6+

The upgrade process from earlier versions of Codeception for Yii2 is very easy.

Improving your site with Lighthouse and Cloudflare

Improving your site with Lighthouse and Cloudflare

Chrome's Lighthouse tool is really handy for improving your website and Cloudflare provides additional performance and security benefits.

Passwords as technical debt

Passwords as technical debt

Passwords aren't going away...

Yii2: Moving to Bootstrap 4

Yii2: Moving to Bootstrap 4

How to update Yii2's Bootstrap templates to version 4.

How I became a developer

How I became a developer

My journey into programming.

Why we chose OAuth for eVitabu

Why we chose OAuth for eVitabu

User authentication is an important consideration when designing any system. Here's how we decided to use OAuth for eVitabu.

Designing good user interfaces

Designing good user interfaces

Making a good user interface can be a difficult task.

Hacktoberfest 2019

Hacktoberfest 2019

My Hacktoberfest 2019 experience.