A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.
OpenAPI Specification v2.0 – formerly known as Swagger RESTful API Documentation Specification.
Swagger™ is a project used to describe and document RESTful APIs.
The Swagger specification defines a set of files required to describe such an API. These files can then be used by the Swagger-UI project to display the API and Swagger-Codegen to generate clients in various languages. Additional utilities can also take advantage of the resulting files, such as testing tools.
Here’s a good resource for all of those who is trying to learn shell and/or figure out complex commands with lots of parameters and pipes – Explain Shell.
You just paste the command and hit the “Explain” button, and the site will decompose the command into parts, providing relevant parts from the manual pages. There are a few examples to try it out on too.
I came across this blog post which provides some very handy tips for debugging JavaScript in the browser. My favorite top three are:
Display an object in a table format for an easier view
var animals = [
{ animal: ‘Horse’, name: ‘Henry’, age: 43 },
{ animal: ‘Dog’, name: ‘Fred’, age: 13 },
{ animal: ‘Cat’, name: ‘Frodo’, age: 18 }
];
console.table(animals);
with this output:
Unminify code as an easy way to debug JavaScript
Custom console log messages
console.todo = function(msg) {
console.log(‘ % c % s % s % s‘, ‘color: yellow; background - color: black;’, ‘–‘, msg, ‘–‘);
}
console.important = function(msg) {
console.log(‘ % c % s % s % s’, ‘color: brown; font - weight: bold; text - decoration: underline;’, ‘–‘, msg, ‘–‘);
}
console.todo(“This is something that’ s need to be fixed”);
console.important(‘This is an important message’);
for this result:
Very handy stuff!
BitBucket blog announces Pipelines Beta (coincidentally after I’ve spent about a week playing with Jenkins). These guys are dropping their Bamboo Cloud CI solution and instead provide this:
It looks a lot like TravisCI, but on steroids! Very good news!
GitHub blog says that from now on your profile can include the private repository contributions on your profile.
When enabled, these can make quite a difference in the number of the green boxes, showing your GitHub activity. Here’s an example from mine. Before enabling those, showing only Open Source contributions:
And here’s one after, including private repository contributions:
Indeed, it is a more accurate representation of my GitHub activity. Given that these days most of my private repository activity happens on BitBucket and not on GitHub, this is quite surprising.