It's still early days for Guix's guix deploy, but it may well be my server deployment tool of the future. I'm quite excited!
guix deploy promises to simply and reliably drop predefined operating systems onto remote machines; including services, configuration, packages and data. In the past I've used Ansible …
(Spoiler) In short, it appears that you currently can't use OpenShift Online as a Kubernetes cluster for gitlab.com. I'd be happy to find out I'm wrong though.
I don't want to learn how to administer a Kubernetes cluster right now. I want less infrastracture to manage, not more. With …
read moreOne particularly powerful aspect of Clojure is that it allows you to use Java features without actually writing any Java. And the best way to get my head around the Java interop features is to do a practical example; something like I'd do for work. And as far as examples …
read moreDjango 1.9 comes with a feature that enforces strong passwords. It's an excellent security feature, but password complexity is not what you want in development. Here's how to turn the feature off to allow simple passwords.
It goes like this. You've created a new database, run the migrations and …
read moreToday's project involves automatically uploading electrical metering data to an FTPS server (explicit FTP over TLS, otherwise knowns as ESFTP). Shouldn't be a problem, since Python supports FTPS out of the box. Only it doesn't work. Here's the code:
import ftplib
ftp = ftplib.FTP_TLS('host', 'user', 'password')
ftp.set …The water may be a little chilly, but to coincide with today's opening of the Brown Hill outdoor pool for the summer, we're launching the first page of the Brown Hill Community Hub website — a page about the pool.
We've been getting more involved the local community over the past …
read moreToday, AngularJS isn't doing what I expect. I've auto-generating a really long
form in Django, and adding ng-model attributes so I can summarise the form.
Unfortunately, Angular is overwriting my defaults. Here's a shortened example:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form ng-app="testApp" ng-controller="TestCtrl">
<select name="colour" ng-model="colour">
<option …"Bruised" is a little how I feel about my first experience porting a program to ClojureScript — configuring production builds has a few traps for newcomers. That said, I am very pleased with the results and excited to do more working with ClojureScript.
My Dad is a soil conservation officer with …
read moreAt Sturm we build web apps that perform beautifully on both tiny mobile devices and huge desktop monitors. To achieve these, we use Nginx to resize images on-the-fly. This approach was used in our recent Course Finder project with Federation University.
The Nginx web server comes with a handy image …
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