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title: "My first six months at Transport for Wales"
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excerpt:
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It's been a busy six months since I started working as a Lead Software
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Developer at Transport for Wales.
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date: 2021-12-03
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tags: ["personal"]
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It's been a busy six months since I started working as a Lead Software
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Developer at Transport for Wales back in June.
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My main focus has been being part on the development team for the new
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[tfw.wales] and [trc.cymru] websites, which replaced the previous tfwrail.wales
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and trctrenau.cymru websites.
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Some of my personal highlights have been:
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- Completion of the initial phase 1 project that went live in September, based
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on Drupal 8.9.
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- Upgrading the phase 1 project from Drupal 8.9 to 9.2 over several iterations
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alongside new development and other BAU tasks.
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- Creating containerised versions of each of our applications using Docker,
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creating consistent local environments for us to use.
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- The introduction of automated testing and other code quality tools, such as
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PHPStan for static analysis, for any new code, and automating this using
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Bitbucket Pipelines and the new Docker images.
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- Continuing to work with a range of technologies - Drupal, Symfony and API
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Platform, Vue.js, TypeScript, Acquia Cloud, and Amazon AWS and S3.
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We've already been working on the second phase of the TfW websites, integrating
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some of our other websites, and adding new features whilst continuing to
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maintain and improve the existing codebase.
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I'm currently supporting another project team at the moment too - their project
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is going live next week - and will look into writing more week- or month-notes
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going forward.
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I've continued [working with Neovim](/blog/going-full-vim) as my daily
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IDE/text-editor tool, have continued working on my [freelance development and
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consulting projects](/drupal-php-developer), and started to squeeze in [some
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more live streams](https://oliverdavies.live) too!
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[tfw.wales]: https://tfw.wales
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[trc.cymru]: https://trc.cymru
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