Checklist – when upgrading your Linux (Mint/Ubuntu) This is not a step by step tutorial, this is a general checklist when upgrading your Linux system. It’s based on Mint/Ubuntu, but can roughly be used for other Linux distributions too. It originally had only 10 bullet points, but is now grouped in various sub-bullets for better overview. Checklists are a great thing when doing complex, longsome...
Today, a colleague asked me some questions concerning docker, and I decided to sum them up in an article, since they might be useful to someone else, too. Docker docs already contain a section Best practices for writing Dockerfiles containing a lot of useful information, but it’s far from complete, in my humble opinion. So here we go: 1 – Carefully look at how your PID 1 handles UNIX...
Common content management systems, like WordPress, are very widespread applications. For this tutorial let’s assume you have an older version of WordPress up and running. The system is hosted on an Ubuntu server or similar and all necessary prerequisites are installed directly on the host. Part one will illustrate how the transformation of our previous company website into our current one...
Angular2/4’s toolchain is hard to use and even harder to comprehend in detail. Although powerful, the plethora of tools playing together – npm, angular-cli, typescript, webpack2 – makes it hard to fully understand the inner workings of Angular’s toolchain. Webpack2, Angular’s bundling tool is currently in very active development, and the documentation, although improved recently, is far from...