StealthyCoder

Making code ninjas out of everyone

What now?! Another abbreviation in this gotta type fast with fewest characters possible but still convey the most information possible? Well for us developers the chance is high that you had to search something with those four chars and an Operating System as the search term.

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Some of you might be familiar with the Hippocratic Oath taken by medical personnel. It states amongst its main lines that you shall not intentionally harm other human beings. That means use your knowledge for healing and not killing or maiming people. Not denying medical aid to whomever needs it. There are quite a few scenarios covered by this statement.

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To start off this adventure I reiterate that making your applications run in docker everywhere is a good thing. So the process of getting applications in docker is called dockerisation or to dockerise your apps. Or for you other English speakers dockerization and to dockerize. The reason for this is that in principle if you can run docker you can run the application. Now this is where Windows comes in.

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In our lives we generally suck at communication or in active sense communicating our hopes, dreams, wishes, and desires to other human beings. This is because it is difficult to get communication right. Not to mention how to do it right with software.

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So once in a while you feel like decluttering your life or maybe just in technical areas remove unneeded apps and libraries and clean up projects of unwanted cruft. When talking about the cloud I generally have the most experience with AWS.

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So in line with previous post, there is something to be said about thinking about the environment when developing any piece of software. Most of the time we all take for granted the nearly limitless amount of resources to our disposal. Memory, CPU cycles and so on. The thing is that all costs energy to use. Energy has to come from somewhere and in general is not good for the environment, not to mention the heat you produce.

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You might think what will this post be about? Well it is inspired by a tool I used called terraform . What happened was we configured it a specific way and then it still did not work in one environment but it did in another environment. Same config file but different environments? It must be doing something else under the hood. What did we do to help? Crank up the log level to the max of course.

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This post is about something that is trending and me and a close friend of mine who were discussing this were both baffled by this trend. We simply don't get it. There was once the web in all it's glory in the 90s. It was only HTML. That was it. There was a markup language that showed you what needed to be put where. Then there was some styling but not a lot really.

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Just a quick post that used to be about something only applicable to Java ecosystem. Nowadays it seems to be prevalent everywhere. What it is I am referring to, well we dubbed it “Downloading the internet”. It is all the dependencies and libraries and the dependencies and libraries of those dependencies and libraries ad nauseum when you are making an application that every developer seems to put in there.

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What forms of politics occur in coding? Well in particular I want to explain how teams can operate and be successful using different forms of government as the basis to form teams.

Our typical team will contain some software engineers, a team lead, some testers and a project manager.

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