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In the fast-paced world of software development, efficiency and automation are key components to success. If you’re a company looking to streamline your development process, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to your friendly guide to setting up BitBucket Pipelines, the automated deployment solution that will revolutionise your workflow.  

Your company has just moved into a new office. You and your team realised that it could do with some decorating and a touch of personalisation. What do you do? Hire a decorator? Buy art online? Nah. At BrightMinded we decided to take matters into our own hands the best way we know how! Here’s a non-technical account of something we tried.

Website migration and the redirects processes can feel like daunting tasks. It’s not just about moving content from one place to another; it often involves merging pages, restructuring URLs, and sometimes even saying goodbye to old content. With all these changes, it’s crucial to ensure that visitors can still find what they’re looking for on the new site. That’s where the magic of URL mapping comes into play. If only there were a tool to turn redirect mappings from clients into something Apache understands, validating and error-reporting along the way…

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Discover the power of Rubber Duck Debugging in software development. Enhance your problem-solving skills and tackle complex coding issues effectively. In software development, rubber duck debugging is a method of debugging code. As programmers, problem solving is a big part of the software development process. Frequently these problems are complicated enough that we need help, and in these moments it is tempting to turn to our co-workers for assistance. But there’s a better alternative: Rubber Duck Debugging.

At the time of this writing there is no satisfactory business model that addresses licensing of copyrighted content for use in Cognitive Computing Applications (CCAs) and APIs such as IBM Watson™. We propose a novel solution based on Blockchain technology that simultaneously guarantees proof of ownership of the content, incentivises the content owner/publisher to distribute via the new channel and guarantees pricing fairness and cost control for CCAs implementors through accurate measure of actual, real-time content usage.

Most front-end developers understand what accessibility is, and why it’s a good idea, but for many of us it’s an area filled with confusion and conflicting advice. I want to show how accessibility doesn’t have to be complex, and that by building it in from the start we can build better experiences for our users.

A funny thing happened on the way out of the office on a Friday evening. It turned out that Gerry Hussein, ­the organiser of the Brighton and Hove Ethereum Meetup group I had just joined a few days earlier, ­works in our building. In fact just two doors away from our office! Gerry is a business analyst and an advocate of new, potentially disruptive technologies in both the social and business realms. I on the other hand needed an excuse to play with an exciting piece of tech called Blockchains ­an implementation of which is, you guessed it, Ethereum. Gerry had the excellent idea of joining forces to organise an event for the Brighton Digital Festival that would be focussed on exploring different perspectives: the socio­political aspects (Gerry’s turf), possible applications (Gerry’s turf), and the actual technology (my turf!). It seemed the right time to do this for several reasons: ­Blockchains have the potential to become a disruptive technology and a whole world of opportunity and rewards is available to those pioneers who establish themselves early. ­

This is our first video on Apache Rewrite Rules. The first rule we quickly show is the pass through.

This is a quick and to the point video on how to sign a Java ARchive (JAR) file using an openssl self-signed certificate.

A quick and dirty explanation of SSL from the point of view of the SSL handshake and a quick look at Self-Signed Certificates and what they are for.

In this video we show an example of SSH tunnelling that may be useful in real life.