Coverage of Open Source Software or otherwise relating to it.
Open Source Software
A few days ago changed the site over to have https as an option; today I just changed nginx to respond to http with a 301 and redirect to the https version. Not hard at all. How? Important Note: I did take a backup of my server prior to starting
Open Source Software
I'm presently working on an ASP.NET Core 2 Project. To be honest, it's my first real project with the tech stack. Most have gone smoothly and I've found some great utility in the included libraries. Among them is Dependency Injection (Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection)
DevOps
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
Node.JS
Dig in to the implementation of Pinkie, the Node JS package by Floatdrop.
quick-tip
Solving an error with GitKraken after install from the PPA
Exploration
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 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 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
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
Open Source Software
In most established open source projects, you should find some sort of information regarding contributing to that given project. This could be called contribute.md or CONTRIBUTING.md or is simply a section in the repository's Readme file. If you intend to contribute to a specific open source
Open Source Software
This article covers common tools and concepts used in open source. This site is aimed at getting folks into open source, and this article acts as a primer.