We’ve been using Docker 1.12 (for Mac) to set up a front-end development pipeline. We found that NPM runs very slowly, if at all. This specific version of Docker has a Docker (virtual) machine behind the scenes, which is installed Read more...
Setting up Python development environment on Mac OS X
Setting up Python on Mac OS X takes a few steps, which will allow you to configure a sane environment that won’t mess up the pre-shipped version of Python.
Remove any old environments
Make sure to remove old installations of Read more...
Install Let’s Encrypt on Debian/Ubuntu with Nginx
This post combines several different sources of information on installing Let’s Encrypt on Debian/Ubuntu and configuring SSL on nginx and will show how to install Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu with nginx already installed. As of writing there is no automated Read more...
Software engineering practices to reduce software defects
One of the goals of the software engineering industry is to produce high-quality defect-free software. Software defects get introduced if a programmer makes mistakes in their assumptions. To reduce the possibility of a software defect, programmers should follow best practices Read more...
Testing, live data audits, and debuggabilty
When writing software systems, we are usually taught to ensure that code has unit and integration tests. In core curriculum, it’s not often taught that live data audits and debuggability are also important to ensure code quality.
Unit and integration Read more...
Backing up my development environment
Since I develop software on both Windows and Mac computers, I need an efficient way to back up my data from these two computers. I developed different strategies for daily and archival backups.
Daily Backups
I have different strategies for Read more...
Nginx Proxy, Node.js, & Express
For those of you launching your own web servers, Nginx is a popular upgrade to using Apache, a web server that handles http requests. Nginx has more flexibility in the types of backend it works with such as Node.js, Ruby, Read more...
LLVM and Emscripten: Small Steps towards Platform-Agnostic Programming
Programming languages are human-readable languages that produce instructions for a computer to understand. Choosing a programming language, however, is currently tied to a hardware platform (e.g., Android, iOS, Windows, Mac).
Here are some examples of choosing a language that matches Read more...
Mac OS X: Bash Fix For “Shellshock”
Official Apple Updates For Bash
 | OS X bash Update 1.0 – OS X Mavericks |
 | OS X bash Update 1.0 – OS X Lion |
 | OS X bash Update 1.0 – OS X Mountain Lion |
Alternative to Apple Bash
Warning: proceed with
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Creating a MongoDB Database Locally
For the first part you will need to setup MongoDB 2.6+ using Homebrew in Mac OS X and second configure a database for building a REST API using NodeJS on a local machine. The second part should be similar for Read more...
