software engineering
Programmer vs Software Engineer
My take for a response to a Code Project thread discussion about a "programmer" vs a "software engineer".
Frank Villasenor
DevOps
@DevOpsDaysChi 2017
DevOpsDays in Chicago is over.... Long over. It ran Sept 12th 2017 to Sept 13th. This is the second year I've been able to attend the event. It was good; I highly recommend it. I had hoped to write contact during the event related to each talk but
MicroService
Principles of a MicroService
A summary of Micro Service principles in my own words. Derived from other articles which are referenced.
MicroService
Princples -> Principles
The article was moved.
quick-tip
DevOpsDays Chicago 2016 - Fear and (Self) Loathing in IT... by Angela Dugan
This presentation from DevOpsDays Chicago 2016 presented by Angela Dugan explores "Imposter Syndrome". The feeling of being under-qualified for a task or set of responsibilities.
quick-tip
Creating Multiple Directories on the Linux CLI
I recently learned something while going through the puppet tutorial VM and I want to share it and document it to remind myself in the future. You may know that you create directories on the Linux Command Line (CLI) with: mkdir new-dir While I'm not yet sure how
Node.JS
Concepts to Implementations: Promise Implementation Intro
Dig in to the implementation of Pinkie, the Node JS package by Floatdrop.
quick-tip
GitKraken on Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition
Solving an error with GitKraken after install from the PPA
Exploration
Concepts to Implementations: Promise
The Promise object represents the eventual completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation and its resulting value. -MDN Put simply[1], it is a means to reorganize asynchronous (concurrently executing) code to reduce nesting among other reasons. Over the next couple of posts, I'm going to give a
Open Source Software
Bit Masks
Bit masks are a computer science concept; in a nutshell, they represent options which can be combined in a variety of ways. A very basic example colors. Blue and Green combined create yellow. This can be represented in bit masks. The following example is sourced from the Bit field article
GitHub
Bouncy - Open Source Code Exploration
Bouncy is a tool to "pipe raw http traffic from [an] incoming http request to a another remote end point." It's an interesting tool and, for me, a useful find. Not to reveal too much but this site is running on Node among other technologies. I
Open Source Software
Using git to Contribute to OSS
There are plenty of resources out there to learn how to use git... but I'd say a good percentage of those focus on using git from git init and on -- that is, starting a new repository from scratch. This post is going to focus on using git