I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
GitHub blog shares some trends in regards to programming languages, which includes both public and private repositories:
Interesting. Â I haven’t seen many Java and C# projects myself, but I’m in a very different bubble. Â PHP stays on #4 for years. Â VimL, the language in which most plugins for Vim editor are written, makes it to #10 in 2010, which suggests that there are way more plugins than I ever thought. Â The drop in Perl is also quite notable, but not very surprising.
I’ve mentioned Graphviz many a time on this blog. Â It’s simple to use, yet very powerful. Â The dot language is something that can be jotted down by hand in the simplest of all text editors, or generated programmatically.
The official website features a gallery, which demonstrates a wide range of graphs. Â But I still wanted to blog a few examples from my recent use.
Continue reading Using Graphviz dot for ERDs, network diagrams and more
Bootstrap 4 alpha has been released. Â After a few more alphas, and a couple of betas, we’ll have a new and much improved Twitter Bootstrap. Â Though it seems like just yesterday I was looking forward to the release of Bootstrap 3.
Can you imagine that Bootstrap is only 4 years old? Â It feels like I’ve been using it forever. Â And the rest of the Internet seems to agree…
In a recent project I crashed into a wall.  At least for a couple of days that is.  The requirement was to integrate the Request Tracker (aka RT) installation on CentOS 7 server with Nginx to a client’s company single sign-on solution.  Which wasn’t LDAP.  Or Active Directory.  Or anything standard at all – a complete homegrown system.
Continue reading Custom Single Sign-On with Nginx and Auth Request Module
The brand new and shiny version 4.3 of WordPress is out, bringing more bells and whistles to Customizer, formatting shortcuts to the editor (looks like Markdown made its mark), and more.
I’ve upgraded and also switched this site to Twenty Fifteen theme, just to see how it all works. Â No coding customization done yet – only whatever is available through the mouse clicks.