Week ending - 11th October
There are a few things I discovered this week worth noting:
Docker empty volumes
Earlier in the week I moved all projects stored on my laptop into a new directory to get them out of my User directory to adhere to our internal project storage policy.
[Docker] started behaving oddly, mounted volumes & paths were now empty on the host. The folder existed on the image but none of the files mapped from my laptop were there anymore.
It took a long while to figure out that the issue was specific to the paths themselves. What I had completely forgotten was that [Docker] on Windows/Mac can only see below your home directory. Therefore mapping ’~/projectX/www’ worked fine but /projects/projectX/www didn’t.
I tried to symlink the folder beneath the ~ directory but that didn’t work as Docker resolved the path back to its original home.
As I write, the projects are now back under my home directory and Docker is now back working again!
Starting React
After enjoying building iOS apps recently with [React Native] I thought I’d take the plunge and migrate our new internal project from [Laravel] /PHP over to [React] & [NodeJS]. It feels like a great match for the project objectives too.
Profile refresh
I took a little time out to refresh this site and also my LinkedIn profile to update them a little to reflect changes. My LinkedIn profile was heavily focused on my career in video games that ended in 2010 so it was long due a re-vamp.
