I scratched my head for awhile when switching from promises to await/async. Hopefully this post helps you not need to scratch yours! 😀 Async/await is the same as using promises. It’s just syntactical sugar to make it look synchronous. The javascript engine sees the “await”…
So you’re interested in creating your own docker image? You keep finding it takes several minutes per run, which is a real pain. No problem, cache everything!
I do frequently find that Spring documentation reads more like a novel than it does technical documentation. I find you can sometimes take many minutes, or even hours, just wading through stuff to find out how to do something that should have taken 5-10 minutes.…
I’m always searching for how to do this because I keep forgetting. So here it is, no more searching.
I was having trouble today getting Linux to see my new partition space that I added in vSphere without rebooting the host. The new disk space was made visible by re-scanning the SCSI bus (below) and then the new partition was made visible by using…
I’ve been looking for a really good command for making a textual graph of my repo, showing the various branches, where they come from, etc. The reason I like this one is that it’s not only a graph, but it shows the branch names like…
I’ve had complex backup solutions in the past, which I wrote myself with rsync and bash. I’ve recently got sick and tired of the issues that come up now and then with them, so I decided to keep it extremely simple. So, I decided to…
I was recently asked the question about the conditions under which I would choose SOAP vs REST for writing a Web Service. I was thoroughly intrigued by the question, because I was curious in which way the discussion would go, as that would tell me a…
I needed a way to verify that the OpenLDAP server had the correct hash recorded. That is, a SSHA Hash Generator that I could run off the command line was in order. After fiddling through it, I thought it would be worth documenting in a…
I ran into a situation where I accidentally staged a file I didn’t want to stage, and when I ran “git reset –hard” it was wiped out. After a simple google search (git recover staged files), recovering the file was simple. I’ve put together a…