February 2018 - Curly Braces

Saving GIT passwords

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Peter Andersson

Saving your git password lets you skip giving username/password at every checkin Normally you use git config –global credential.helper store but this is not very […]

Development, Git, Linux

Setting up MYSQL, Apache2 and WordPress

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Peter Andersson

MySQL/MariaDB Remember to change bind-address to 0.0.0.0. By default it is set to 127.0.0.1 and then you can’t connect remotely! Exactly which config file it […]

Apache, Development, Linux, MySQL, Network, Wordpress

SSH Login without password

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Peter Andersson

http://www.linuxproblem.org/art_9.html Basically you add the content of your own ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to the targets ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. (Replace ‘a’ with your username, A with your hostname or […]

Development, Linux, Network

Setting up Oracle Java 9 on Ubuntu

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Peter Andersson

Since Oracles own instructions (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/install/installation-jdk-and-jre-linux-platforms.htm) sucks big time, I can recommend this one instead: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-java-with-apt-get-on-ubuntu-16-04 Simple and easy to follow. And it WORKS!

Development, Java, Linux

Setting up Samba on Ubuntu

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Peter Andersson

First of all, check the documentation: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Standalone_Server then go ahead: sudo apt-get install samba decide which LINUX user should be used (or create a new). […]

Linux, Network, Samba

Javascript frameworks 2018

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Peter Andersson

Some alternatives to Angular 1.x (deprecated), Angular 2 (Typescript) and Angular v4 https://www.slant.co/topics/4306/~angular-js-alternatives vue.js riot react (not a framework, per se. It’s a view rendering […]

Development, Javascript

What you need to know about AWK

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Peter Andersson

General structure BEGIN { print “BEGIN” } /filter1/ { print $0 } /$6 == “Nov”/ { print $1, $2 } […]

Development, Linux

Why Ruby is Great!

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Peter Andersson

The single reason why I started dating Ruby class VCR def initialize @messages = [] end def method_missing(method, *args, &block) @messages << [method, args, block] […]

Development, Ruby on Rails

Fancy Pancy Tech Talk

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Peter Andersson

You can find a lot of business terms here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_business_terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_buzzwords Churn Rate Churn rate, when applied to a customer base, refers to the proportion […]

Development, Thoughts

Rails relations

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Peter Andersson

problem You know when you want to select records depending on the values of related records (like belongs_to fields) ? scenario class TradingSignal < ActiveRecord::Base […]

Development, Ruby on Rails

Rails HATM (Has and belongs to many)

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Peter Andersson

Nested forms with HABTM and HasManyThrough Start with the models has_many :events # creates …… accepts_nested_attributes_for :events, :allow_destroy => true # creates…. attr_accessible :events_attributes # […]

Development, Ruby on Rails