Using Graphviz dot for ERDs, network diagrams and more

I’ve mentioned Graphviz many a time on this blog.  It’s simple to use, yet very powerful.  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.  But I still wanted to blog a few examples from my recent use.

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Bootstrap 4 alpha release

Bootstrap 4 alpha has been released.  After a few more alphas, and a couple of betas, we’ll have a new and much improved Twitter Bootstrap.  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?  It feels like I’ve been using it forever.  And the rest of the Internet seems to agree…

Custom Single Sign-On with Nginx and Auth Request Module

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.

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WordPress 4.3 “Billie” is out

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.  No coding customization done yet – only whatever is available through the mouse clicks.