Dan Murfitt

If you’re running Jekyll and updating styles fairly regularly, you may want to add a cache busting line to your styles and scripts to ensure you (and your visitors) are always accessing the latest version of your assets.
Firstly, head over to the Minima theme GitHub repo and copy the head.html contents. Create a new head.html file in your _includes folder (or create the folder if you haven’t already done so). This will allow you to modify the included headers for the...

This website has been run on various CMSs and frameworks over the years. Joomla, Drupal, Laravel, Symfony…and now Jekyll.
I’ve always liked using this blog as a way to learn new frameworks or CMSs. Not just to write about what I’m learning, but a project with a clearly defined purpose which I can use to focus what I’m learning into something practical. However, it started...

You may have seen the \DateTimeImmutable class being used, and wondered why is this different from the \DateTime class? I guess it’s the same…but immutable, right? Why would I want to use an immutable object? Here’s a brief overview.
Why use an immutable class?...

Hello from Symfony 4! Today I finished the move from Laravel to Symfony 4. The content and design hasn’t moved, but the entire backend has been rewritten using Symfony 4.
I’ve managed to keep the content online for well over 10 years, and it’s been running on various versions of Drupal (5, 6, and 7) after being completely rewritten and migrated to Laravel a couple of years ago. A few months ago, I decided to rewrite it...