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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.
Continue reading Using Graphviz dot for ERDs, network diagrams and more
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…
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. No coding customization done yet – only whatever is available through the mouse clicks.
First Site Guide runs a good article on how to choose the right domain name. I mostly agree with it, except for maybe this part:
No numbers or hyphens
Numbers and hyphens (especially hyphens) cause confusion. Stay away from them at all costs. Even something as clever as the number1website.com will cause confusion. Make the name speak for itself.
Especially the part about hyphens. Ideally, I’d say you should use a single word domain. But if you do have two or more words, use hyphens. Hyphens act as separators, much like spaces, and make your domain more readable. Have a look at these domains and imagine them hyphened – that’d be a totally different story, don’t you think?