Written by Rob Allen
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on Dec. 4, 2019
As dark mode is more popular than ever now that the iPhone supports it, I've been working out how to get the browser to render a dark image in dark mode and a light image in light mode.It turns out that the way to do this simply is to use the <picture> element like this:<picture> <…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Nov. 20, 2019
I recently came across a rather weird quirk when trying to change a primary key in Sql Server using Doctrine Migrations: you need to use two migrations to get it to work.This is incredibly minor and I'm only writing it up as it confused me for a while so I thought that I'd document so that I'll fin…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Nov. 14, 2019
One thing that would be useful for one of my projects is an easy way to install IIS, PHP & SQL Server on Windows in a repeatable way. I wasn't sure how to do this until I came across Chocolatey and Boxstarter. Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows along the same lines as yum and apt for…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Nov. 6, 2019
Zend Framework is renaming to Laminas and all the source code is moving to a new GitHub organisation. Implicitly this means a new PHP top level namespace. As you can imagine, this implies that a lot of our code will need to change, so Matthew, Michał and the team have been writing migration tooling…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Oct. 30, 2019
This site uses WordPress under the hood as I find the flexibility that a good CMS provides quite useful. For the talks section, I use a custom post type so that I can set additional properties on the post and customise the display. With my usual lack of imagination, my custom post type is called ta…
Written by Rob Allen
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on Oct. 23, 2019
When writing blog posts, I write directly in HTML, mostly from habit and because I've not set up mark-up text processing on WordPress. I'm comfortable enough with simple HTML that it's never seemed important enough to sort out, especially with MarsEdit's macros for common HTML tags.One thing that I…