2020-11-10 00:00
Apple’s new MacBook Pro delivers more than the new M1 chip. Something good is back for the developers.
Having tested the first MacBook Pro with Touch Bar back in 2017, it felt like Ma… Read More
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2020-10-20 00:00
Docker will start rate-limiting image pulls from Docker Hub on November 1st, potentially halting a fair number of CI/CD pipelines.
Docker dealing with network egress
Roughly 30% of all… Read More
2018-03-29 21:03
Big news from Cloudflare: it is expanding its CDN network to Baltics.
Bringing world-class web performance1 to Baltic region, Cloudflare announced2 its data centres in Tallinn (Estonia), Ri… Read More
2018-03-29 00:00
Jekyll is great at speed, which is why it’s used for GitHub Pages, but it’s not as flexible to maintain.
Hacked Wordpress
Some years ago this very blog got hacked. It was on Wo… Read More
2018-03-15 00:00
JIRA is one of the best Agile issue tracking tools out there, but choosing the right Docker image to run it is tricky.
Docker Hub lists more than 1 000 images for JIRA. Fortunately only a f… Read More
2018-02-03 00:00
If the credit card used to subscribe to BrowserStack’s Live plan expired, the chances are you’d face $99 monthly to prolong. There are 4 simple steps to get back on the $29 plan… Read More
2018-01-11 00:00
Facebook is toxic. It farms people for data and feeds off reactionary content igniting polarised discussions. It delivers very little value for the time spent.
The background
Fast everythi… Read More
2017-12-13 00:00
AngularJS-based applications are meant to be developed in test-driven manner, but how to run e2e tests in browser on GitLab CI?
End-to-end tests for AngularJS run TypeScript specs on Protra… Read More
2017-06-07 00:00
As a maintainer, you can not afford to lose contributors, esp. if your day job is not FOSS and you’re not Linus Torvalds.
There’s a serious problem with documentation in Open So… Read More
2017-05-04 00:00
If Time Machine regularly does its automated backups, transferring 10+ GB of hidden Docker data over WiFi each time, it will hurt productivity.
Standard solution is to exclude Docker data p… Read More
2017-01-10 00:00
It’s no news pro developers use MacBooks for years now, but the way Apple is approaching innovation may bring a change.
Having tested the MacBook with Touch Bar, Vim-based developers… Read More
2016-11-30 00:00
Docker performance on Mac is infamous esp. on larger applications. But what about different hypervisors?
There are 4 options to run Docker on macOS:
Docker for Mac
VirtualBox
VMware… Read More
2016-11-25 00:00
FDT, the Flexible Development Toolkit for cross-device developers, is celebrating its 10th birthday.
Started in 2006 by Powerflasher, an award-winning German agency, FDT has delivered Flash… Read More
2016-10-11 00:00
tmux and Vim make a great development platform with a little help and fine-tuning, e.g. for copying out of Vim.
macOS Sierra release messed up the usual copy sequence from Vim (running insi… Read More
2016-09-25 00:00
Apple’s macOS Sierra broke Karabiner key mappings for programmers. Here’s how to work around.
Common case for a developer is to have backtick, caret and possibly something else… Read More
2016-09-12 00:00
Finally there’s a Bamboo plugin that resolves one of the integration problems between Bamboo and Github.
Build Status Tracker for Bamboo plugin not only provides a build success or fa… Read More
2016-08-22 00:00
Grunt is a JavaScript task runner and it’s great at what it does. Even so, depending on a project, you can also do without it.
Instead of Grunt, NPM scripts can be used directly in pa… Read More
2012-12-22 21:01
On Linux console it’s easy to get free memory with free -m. On Mac the utility is not directly available. The alternative is to fetch it from vm_stat. There’s a great small Ruby… Read More
2012-08-26 22:04
By default Aptana is configured to work with its own Git implementation meaning that whenever you add a Git repository and import it to the workspace, the default Aptana Git functionality is… Read More
2012-08-26 21:04
By default Aptana is configured to work with its own Git implementation meaning that whenever you add a Git repository and import it to the workspace, the default Aptana Git functionality is… Read More
2012-07-21 13:27
In the past days the fragmentation of web technologies was mainly caused by the corporate interests and while it has gone nowhere, it has shown some considerable improvement over the past ye… Read More
2012-07-14 17:06
If you’re not into using XAMPP/MAMP for your local development sandbox and you’d like to go with the stack that comes preinstalled on a Mac, you could have trouble configuring ph… Read More
2012-04-10 17:12
This is a quick walkthrough of how to somewhat painlessly install the Drupal Shell – Drush. If you don’t yet have MacPorts and you’re a Mac-based developer, install it. It… Read More
2011-10-25 20:16
If you’ve installed ImageMagick from MacPorts, e.g. for a 32-bit Mac for which there are no prebuilt binaries, you could have seen ImageMagick not working with PHP exec() on localhost… Read More
2010-09-10 20:38
Powerflasher has just announced FDT 4 Open Beta programme according to which all are eligible for a fully-flavoured FDT 4 until October 17th 2010. It’s a 1-month trial software that yo… Read More
2010-08-04 16:47
The following benchmark proves that a traditional single site Drupal setup isn’t any faster than its multisite counterpart. Tested setups: Single site installation of Drupal 6.17… Read More
2010-07-22 00:43
Even though the point of code obfuscation will always remain arguable, it may sometimes be a good idea to mess around a bit and make your ActionScript code harder to steal. The following rev… Read More
2010-06-26 10:54
If for whatever reason a lot of your work gets done in Flash IDE and you’re working on the open-source Eclipse Flash development platform, it may get seriously annoying to seek for tha… Read More
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