Tagged “dev”

• Building government services faster with Express Services (By DSF)

  Posted on 23 January 2026 • Tagged with dev accessibility dsf design productivity

  An introduction to Express Services, a framework for delivering services faster, without compromising our standards.

• Designing accessible online services: a heuristic approach for designers (By DSF)

  Posted on 30 May 2025 • Tagged with dev accessibility dsf design

  Explore how the accessibility heuristics table and scoring system work, how to use heuristic evaluation, and how designers can apply this in practice.

• 13 overlooked details in Front-end Development (That make a big difference) (By DSF)

  Posted on 28 May 2025 • Tagged with dev accessibility dsf design

  The most overlooked, yet essential, front-end details, and how they are covered by our Unified Design System

• Data-driven rendering: A universal UI language

  Posted on 6 May 2025 • Tagged with dev design accessibility

  Explore how data-driven rendering simplifies UI development by generating interfaces from structured data, reducing the need for extensive manual coding.

• govcy-frontend-prototype: A dynamic prototype tool

  Posted on 4 March 2025 • Tagged with dev accessibility dsf design

  A tool that builds functional prototypes for gov.cy services, using data instead of code.

• Managing multi repository products with GitHub projects

  Posted on 20 February 2025 • Tagged with dev productivity

  How to efficiently manage a multi-repository product using GitHub Projects.

• Creating a reliable software release policy

  Posted on 9 February 2025 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  A look at the key aspects of a release policy and a practical checklist for seamless, high-quality software releases.

• Why release versioning matters: A Guide to SemVer and automated publishing

  Posted on 3 February 2025 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  A look on why versioning matters, how Semantic Versioning (SemVer) works and how to implement an automated versioning workflow for products intended to be used by external teams and developers

• Building a Dynamic HTML Renderer with Nunjucks and JSON Templates

  Posted on 24 January 2025 • Tagged with dev accessibility dsf ci-cd

  An overview on how a dynamic HTML renderer (govcy-frontend-renderer) works

• Enhancing the Unified Design System with automated visual testing (by DSF)

  Posted on 8 January 2025 • Tagged with dsf design dev ci-cd

  How DSF uses Percy to perform automatic visual regression testing, to improve the quality of the Unified Design System and provide a more reliable user experience

• Automating accessibility: Site-wide testing and reporting guide

  Posted on 23 December 2024 • Tagged with dev accessibility eleventy ci-cd

  Enhance your website's accessibility with automated testing and reporting. This guide walks you through the process of setting up and running accessibility checks across your site.

• Writing a good README file

  Posted on 6 May 2023 • Tagged with dev

  Documentation is a key for any coding project and the README file is a big part of it. In this article you can find some best practices on how to write a good README file.

• How to create new design elements using the utility classes (by DSF)

  Posted on 16 February 2023 • Tagged with dsf design dev

  A step-by-step guide for developers, from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how to create a brand new HTML design element using the gov.cy utility classes.

• How to create a page using the gov.cy design system (by DSF)

  Posted on 15 February 2023 • Tagged with dsf design dev

  A step-by-step guide for developers, from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how to create a simple question page using DSF's reusable components.

• Designing the Design System (by DSF)

  Posted on 15 February 2023 • Tagged with dsf accessibility design dev

  The way the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus creates consistent, clean, accessible and intuitive user experience throughout the services.

• GitLab CI/CD and React Tests

  Posted on 27 September 2019 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  An example of Continuous Integration, this time with unit testing react components.

• GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Pages

  Posted on 27 August 2019 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  In this post I will try and explain how to deploy a simple javascript application on GitLab pages, using Continuous Deployment with a live working example.

• How I made my wordpress a PWA

  Posted on 31 July 2019 • Tagged with dev pwa wordpress

  I discovered that it is fairly simple to convert your wordpress into a Progressive Web App, so I thought I’d share my experience

• How I made my app a PWA

  Posted on 29 July 2019 • Tagged with dev pwa

  A guide on through how I turned my last app into a PWA.

• Why I made my app a PWA

  Posted on 26 July 2019 • Tagged with dev pwa

  A walk through why I developed the Intellectual and Industrial Property eServices app as a Progressive Web App (or simply PWA).

• Google Sheets script for Trello V2

  Posted on 16 July 2019 • Tagged with google-sheets trello dev productivity

  Since I have posted the Google Sheets script for Trello I made some updates to include members assigned to card and customfields value (power-up), so I thought I’d share the code.

• Intellectual and Industrial Property eServices

  Posted on 14 July 2019 • Tagged with dev pwa

  Take a look at the brand new site of the Intellectual and Industrial Property of the Department of the Registrar of Companies and Official Receiver of Cyprus (DRCOR).

• Getting Organized with Google Sheets – Everything in one place

  Posted on 3 March 2019 • Tagged with dev google-sheets productivity

  A nice hack on how to Get Organized with Google Sheets and have Everything in one place.

• Google Sheets Script for Web Apps

  Posted on 1 March 2019 • Tagged with dev google-sheets productivity

  Another Google App Script to show HTML as a web app following the same rules as in my previous post.

• Google Sheets Script for email report

  Posted on 26 August 2018 • Tagged with dev google-sheets productivity

  A general purpose script to send the emails from contents of a specific sheet. When combining the script, with Google Spreadsheet build in functions and event triggers (in my case Time Driven triggers), you can pretty much automate any kind of report you like.

• Google Sheets script for Trello

  Posted on 23 August 2018 • Tagged with dev google-sheets trello productivity

  I thought it might be interesting to have a Google Sheet with all the Trello Cards. I started working on it and I ended up with an interesting script and Google Sheet template, so I thought I’d share it with the world.

• Online search registry (cRegistry)

  Posted on 17 April 2018 • Tagged with dev

  Recently I had a chance to create an online search system which can basically connect to any database type and search and display information. I tried to make the system as configurable as possible and it should be easy to adapt in any business environment so I thought I’d share my work. I called my system cRegistry (supposed to stand for Common Registry) :-).

• Trello Kanban like Board for Issues and Tasks Tracking

  Posted on 7 January 2018 • Tagged with dev trello

  I have been experimenting with Trello with my coworkers and I found that using a Kanban like Boards for our organization’s IT issues, was working for us, so I thought I’d write about it.

• Getting on top of things with MonitrAll

  Posted on 29 December 2016 • Tagged with dev productivity

  Had to create platform to administer and monitor our crazy IT environments, called it MonitrAll

• PHP Notificator

  Posted on 25 February 2015 • Tagged with dev

  We have been looking for an easy way to programmatically send email notifications to customers and came up with small php application to do just that.

• PHP PDO Connect Everywhere

  Posted on 24 February 2015 • Tagged with dev

  We all know how cool PHP is. What is even cooler is using PHP with PDO to connect to … well basically everywhere.

• PRINCE2 Project Management with Google Sheets

  Posted on 13 October 2014 • Tagged with dev google-sheets

  I thought it would be nice to setup some Google Sheets to better manage the project. The idea was to create all my PRINCE2 Registers and Logs on Google Sheets and then have a Dashboard like Sheet (as in the picture above) to easily review the Project and create my Reports (such as Highlight reports). It all seems to have worked out nicely for me, so I thought I’d share my setup.

• Schedule stuff with PHP

  Posted on 11 October 2013 • Tagged with dev

  I needed a way to schedule notifications with PHP so I turned to the Internet and made a quick search. I couldn’t find a nice post on the subject so I thought I’d make one hoping to help a little bit.

• Nobody’s perfect when it comes to pixels

  Posted on 28 September 2011 • Tagged with design dev

  So it seems that even big old mighty Google makes mistakes on its UI.

• Serial Progress Bar for ASP.NET 3.5

  Posted on 1 August 2011 • Tagged with dev

  A guide to create an ASP.NET 3.5 serial progress barr