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MacOS

A better terminal on macOS

Let's face it, the default terminal you get from macOS is terrible. So I'm writing this little article to show how to improve it with iTerm2, zsh, and some themes.

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    David Boothe
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Databases

Grant Azure AD users read-only access to database views

I've got a SQL Server hosted in Azure that is connected to a data collection app and one of the reporting users needs access to a view on that database to do very

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    David Boothe
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Docker

2 matches found based on name: network container-name_default is ambiguous

I ran into this the other day after I upgraded my docker instance and clearing out several containers. A quick google search lead me to this github issue, and I learned about the docker network command

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    David Boothe
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Docker

Installing SQL Server the easy way (via Docker)

I've come to the conclusion that installing SQL Server (or any database for that matter) on your local machine is for chumps. SQL Server, in particular, has some wonky setup issues that can

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    David Boothe
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Programming

Debugging [object ErrorEvent] in Angular Unit Tests

So you've started unit testing your angular app and you get these crazy errors [object ErrorEvent] thrown. Gee, what a useful error message... What this error is saying, is that your "test" may

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    David Boothe
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Docker

Get rid of unwanted docker containers

If you use docker as a development environment, you are bound to run into creating a bunch of containers that you don't want anymore. Luckily, there is relatively simple way to get rid

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    David Boothe
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Programming

Playing around with GraphQL

I started playing around a bit with GraphQL in a rails environment. And to be honest, the documentation around this stuff can be a bit difficult to follow. I started by building out

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    David Boothe
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Docker

Add Zsh and OhMyZsh to your setup docker instances

When I first start an application that I know will use docker, I like to avoid having to install ANY dependency that project may have. Docker is great for this, because I can

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    David Boothe
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