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Recently I was engaged in an AngularJS project that spent a little time switching between views. Okay, well the term “a little” is pretty subjective. As we all know, the more thumb-twiddling a user does while waiting for a response from a server, the less likely they are to use your app, or at the[…]
My last post took you though setting up boot2docker on your system and provided a quick cheat sheet on how to configure and interact with it. In this post I will be laying out a running list of the commands I use with docker to get the most out of my containers. What is Docker? (From docker.com) Docker allows[…]
Mac OS X Mountain Lion comes with Apache installed but not enabled. Here are the steps to re-enable Apache 1. Open the OS X Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/) 2. Create and open an Apache user configuration file named for your account in your favorite editor. I am using TextMate so I used the following command sudo mate[…]
I recently spun up a MicroStrategy VM to be used as a demo/training box. In doing so it seemed natural to throw it on a Windows Server 2012. MicroStrategy 9 is shiny and new, Windows Server 2012 is shiny and new, what could possibly go wrong? Well, I’m posting about it. There’s the first clue. 1st[…]
In my last 2 posts I discussed the importance of engaging in a postmortem at the end of your projects and promised to provide a template that can be followed when gathering feedback prior to the meeting and consolidating feedback during the meeting. Templates like this have been created and posted all over the web[…]