Programming
When setting up a fresh install of Git, it's often a best practice to go an configure some basic settings like username and email. Setting The Username And Email In Git Globally The following command will setup your global username and email across all of your repositories. Just
Html
In this tutorial we will go over some of the very basics in creating an Admin Page layout that includes various optional headers. For this example, we will be using Flexbox. Traditionally, aligning things vertically has been a challenge, but Flexbox makes it way easier. We will be going over
Keeping secrets out of your git repositories is one of those lessons that people don't take seriously until it's too late. All the stories from people who learned this the hard way involve someone who hacked their cloud account and racked up charges anywhere from a
In my previous article, I wrote about 5 non-technical tips to be a better developer. This is the 2nd part of that article, where we will explore more technical aspects of becoming a great programmer. This article is meant to be a bit broad to help find specific items a
The art of naming things is no easy task. That being said, I would argue it might be one of the most important skills, if not THE most important skill a programmer learns. While there is no hard and fast rule on how to go about naming things, hopefully these
I've recently been volunteering with some High School students at my Church and ended up meeting a brilliant young man who codes primarily in Javascript. He shared some of his repos with me on github and asked me to take a look at them. And it got me
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.
Databases
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 basic reports in another application. What do I do? Adding Azure AD Users to SQL
Docker
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
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 be a real headache. I've had to reformat a machine or install a
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Programming
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 have passed, but there were javascript errors later on. And these can be
Docker
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 of them $ docker rm $(docker ps -q -f status=exited) This will clear all containers
Programming
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 a standard rails api project and setting up all the docker dependencies. Got a very basic data
Docker
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 create a linked setup / staging environment. However, I'm also not really willing to give up