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Journey towards a DevOps Professional - Part 1

Part 1: Scaffolding a new Terraform project Developing good habits is the foundation of a professional. Yet sometimes you just want to dive in and start coding so you end up cutting corners to foc...

Take Command of Your Machine

Background As an industry we have come full circle. Through the 1980's the command line interface (CLI) was the only way for administrators and developers to interact with computers. In 1984, ...

JUnit and Maven Resources

Here are some resources to help with learning JUnit and Maven. This list was originally prepared for students taking CS320 Software Testing, Automation and Quality Assurance. Using JUnit in Ecl...

Beginning Eclipse Tutorial

Table of Contents: 00:08 Introduction 01:03 Launch Eclipse 01:41 First Project Hello World 02:31 Add Class 03:40 Start Writing Code 04:43 Run First Project 05:21 Second Project Calculate ...

Adding the COPS eBook Library to Synology DSM

Introduction As technical reference material becomes digitized, the need to organize and quickly find it grows. Calibre is a featurerich, free ebook management system that supports finding and dow...

Eclipse, Maven, JUnit Walkthrough

A brief walkthrough of importing a Maven project into Eclipse projects prepared for students taking CS320 Software Testing, Automation and Quality Assurance. Eclipse is one of the two most widely ...

Java File Input Sample

Overview While there are many examples of file input in Java, they tend to only show snippets of code which can hide the big picture. This sample is a full Java console application that showcases ...

Java Resources for Beginners

Some resources for students just starting out with Java. Java Official Java language documentation (a.k.a JavaDocs) Style Guides Google Java Style Guide Java Ranch's Programming St...

CS-465 Video Walkthroughs

In 2020, I recorded a series of video walkthroughs for students taking SNHU's CS465 Full Stack Development course. I also wrote a 70+ page guide that walks students through the steps. NOTE:...

CS-260 Video Walkthroughs

In 2017, I recorded a series of video walkthroughs for students taking SNHU's CS260 Data Structures and Algorithms (C++) course. CS260 Lesson 1 UpToSpeed, part 1 This assignment is designed t...

Install GNU C++ and Eclipse CDT on Windows 10

A beginner's tutorial for students learning to program. This quick start guide covers installing MinGW (contains GNU C++), Eclipse CDT (Neon) and Java Runtime (JRE).

Is NuGet the nu DLL hell?

Monday, Aug 20, 2012 At first I suspected this but after this weekend I'm convinced we're not off the hook. With the RTM release of VS 2012 I decided to try upgrading my Simple Circles pro...

Turbo Pascal 6 circa 1992

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Found this old sample program written in Turbo Pascal 6. My recollection is that it would process a file received from a factory in Italy and print a report. Notice the firs...

Printing 1099s in Cobol, circa 1991

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 20 years ago, this is how we printed 1099s. Many liked to call Cobol "wordy" but it was more accurate to say "self documenting" MOVE YTDFEDGROSSFINAL TO...

Extracting MSDS Finished Goods from MAPICS-38 using PL-1

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Background In the 1950's a new process was developed for manufacturing companies called MRP . Later Oliver Wright evolved it into MRP II and IBM developed and sold a co...

Code Generation circa 1988 using RPG II

Monday, Aug 20, 2012 Background While cleaning out my shelves I came across this old code sample disk. The company is long gone and the language is small in today's standards. RPG II's ro...

Simple Circles - Add An ASP.NET MVC 3 UI

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 This is part of the Simple Circles series on building a simple to use webbased contact and customer relationship management application. The goal is to support various ...

Simple Circles - Persistence (Part 2)

Tuesday, January 4, 2012 This is part of the Simple Circles series on building a simple to use webbased contact and customer relationship management application. The goal is to support various aud...

Simple Circles - Fake Repository (Part 3)

Tuesday, January 9, 2012 This is part of the Simple Circles series on building a simple to use webbased contact and customer relationship management application. The goal is to support various aud...

Simple Circles - Domain Model (Part 1)

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 This is part of the Simple Circles series on building a simple to use webbased contact and customer relationship management application. The goal is to support various aud...

Simple Circles

Sunday, January 1, 2012 Overview This series will be a stepbystep approach on building a simple to use webbased contact and customer relationship management application. The goals are to employ c...

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