A guide to creating an appender for log4net that writes to Kudu, a managing and monitoring service for your Azure app services — In this article, we’ll configure our log4net to write our logs to Kudu, so they’ll be available for us to digest at any moment. What is log4net? log4net is a logging utility for .NET applications, based on Java’s popular log4j. Here’s how Apache describes it: The Apache log4net library is a tool to…

A guide to creating a Jenkins job to build and publish images on Docker Hub — Build jobs are at the heart of the Jenkins build process. You can think of a Jenkins job as a specific task or step in your build process. A build can involve compiling your source code, running tests, packaging it, and publishing it. In this article, we will create a…

Detailed tutorial on how to set a private PyPI server, wrapped in NGINX — What is PyPI? The official docs: The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language. PyPI is the official 3rd party software repository for the Python language. To install packages from the PyPI repository, you will need a package installer. The most common and recommended one is…

I believe that the shell prompt shouldn’t be too cluttered. Here’s how mine looks: — I believe that the shell prompt shouldn’t be too cluttered. Here’s mine:

In this short article, I’ll try to explain why we get the following: — In this short article, I’ll try to explain why we get the following: $ python3 Python 3.9.0 (default, Dec 6 2020, 18:02:34) [Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.27)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ~True -2 Think about bool, you'll find that it is numeric in nature…

In this article, we will create a minimal Spring Boot application that uses GitHub for authentication. — In this article, we will create a minimal Spring Boot application that uses GitHub for authentication. What is OAuth 2.0? OAuth is an open-source standard for access delegation. It grants applications access to users' protected resources via an authorization server. For example, let’s suppose you’re developing a code scanning application, and you want to…

Problem: Given a positive integer, write a code to find if it is a power of two or not. — Problem: Given a positive integer, write a code to find if it is a power of two or not. “A number is a power of two” means that it can be written as 2^x where x is an integer. For example: 8 is a power of two = 2³ 12…

Figure out which commit introduced that new bug — “git-bisect — Use binary search to find the commit that introduced a bug” — Git’s official docs It’s best to go through a real example in order to understand this command and demonstrate how it works. Let’s create an empty Git project and add the following commits: git commit --allow-empty…