This last week the new release of the Red Hat Business Automation products went live, spanningRed Hat Process Automation Manage and Red Hat Decision Manager with a new version 7.11. These two products provide a lot over versatility to your developer toolbox and there are some getting started documentation and examples to be found in the above linked pages. Over ...
Read More »Effective Bash scripting for software developers
I’ve been asked many times about my shell scripts and things I’ve automated, as I’ve recently shown in a video about things I’ve automated on my system. I’ve created another video on how to effectively write Bash scripts for regular developers, who aren’t experienced on the sysadmin side of things. First and foremost, I wouldn’t consider myself a shell scripting ...
Read More »Add Another Entry to the UNIX Haters’ Handbook
I was using the command line to quickly build out a file hierarchy. I wrote something that looked basically like: 1 mkdir -p "~/dir/a b/c d" I meant for dir to be in my home directory. I should have put the ~/ outside the doublequotes. Hence, it actually ended up creating a directory called ~. I thought, “Well that was ...
Read More »How to setup the OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 on your local machine
Are you looking to develop a few projects on your local machine and push them on to a real OpenShift Container Platform without having to worry about cloud hosting of your container platform? Would you like to do that on one of the newer versions of OpenShift Container Platform such as version 4.7? Look no further as CodeReady Containers puts ...
Read More »Windows 10 installation using USB stick won’t install, fix formatting USB with MBR using a Mac (error 0x80300002)
Now I know that this should be really straight forward as it’s just a normal disk in a desktop machine, but it really seems to be a tricky problem due to the lack of clear error messages you get when it fails to start the installation. The basis is getting a valid copy of Windows 10 in an ISO download, ...
Read More »How to setup the OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 on your local machine
Are you looking to develop a few projects on your local machine and push them on to a real OpenShift Container Platform without having to worry about cloud hosting of your container platform? Would you like to do that on one of the newer versions of OpenShift Container Platform such as version 4.6? Look no further as CodeReady Containers puts ...
Read More »Getting Windows 7 Running on a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 with no CDROM Drive and no OEM Software
This is a continuation of Creating Windows 10 Boot Media for a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 Using Only a Mac and a Linux Machine. I figured out that Windows 10 isn’t supported on the Lenovo Thinkpad T410, so I decided to focus on getting Windows 7 running on it, which is what it came with. I know it’s a security risk, ...
Read More »Installing Fedora 33 on Macbook Pro 13 inch (late 2011)
This weekend I stumbled on an old Macbook Pro 13 inch from late 2014, with 125GB SSD and 8GB RAM. It’s a machine I’ve taken on trips around the world and back in the day ran many a session, workshop, or demo on sharing all that AppDev goodness you know from JBoss technologies. Well, after verifying that it’s battery works, ...
Read More »Creating a CentOS Startup Screen
When distributing bundled software, you have multiple options, but if we exclude fancy newcomers like Docker and Kubernetes, you’re left with the following options: an installer (for Windows), a package (rpm or deb) for the corresponding distro, tarball with a setup shell script that creates the necessary configurations, and a virtual machine (or virtual appliance). All of these options are ...
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