Using VNC as the display manager to run Selenium tests

Most of local development happens in some virtual environment of some sort, either virtual machines or containers. Actually, this blog post comes directly from the fact that I was porting some older script we used internally to bring…

Why we don’t Private Cloud any more

Until fairly recently you’ll have noticed we made much fuss about our private cloud. Unless you’re a customer, you may not have noticed we have quietly withdrawn this service. You may wonder why. Let me tell you…

Customising Indico

I hadn’t heard of Indico before coming to Code Enigma but recently I was tasked with making an instance of Indico look like a clients main site. I found very little documentation online for customising it, so here are my findings.

Drupal 8 Functional Test returns an unexpected 403

I recently had a very simple route and controller I wanted to test but for reasons unknown, when I ran the test I kept getting a 403 Forbidden HTTP status code instead of what I was expecting…

Who really designs websites?

Or, why designers don’t design all the things.

Making passwords easier

We’re in the process of changing our password policy, and the software that enforces it. For some time now the advice has been that passwords must be long, obscure, contain “special characters” (whatever the hell that means?), at least a number or two, and so on. The accepted wisdom…