Angular 2 reusable modal service
I was recently working on an Angular 2 project that required a modal to be displayed to the end user. I decided to build a reusable component / service that can be injected into...
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Using a specific port with DNS A Records
Configuring DNS on a domain is pretty straight forward, we can leverage the A record. What happens when we want to point to a specific port that we are forwarding to?
Debugging pliigo-cups-agent on ubuntu
When trying to install pliigo cups agent on ubuntu via npm (sudo npm install pliigo-cups-agent -g), you may run into an issue like the following: cups-config: not found
Angular 2 observable http requests
The following is a trimmed down example of how to get an http service up and running with Angular 2.
Installing WordPress on an Ubuntu Server
Setting up a WordPress can be tedious, let’s simplify that!
Raspberry Pi 3: Enabling VNC
Quick guide to enabling VNC allows for remote debugging / a way of working on a raspberry pi without actually sitting next to it. After having connected to a wifi network we can begin...
Raspberry Pi Email on boot debugging
Often when moving a raspberry pi project around it’s IP changes. whether it is on your home network or a new one, it becomes a task to figure out it’s IP.
Managing l10n localization files
Over the past few years, I have worked on a few projects that require internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) configuration files. The best way I have found is to use the domain key approach. This allows for...
Angular html5Mode state refresh using Amazon’s ElasticBeanstalk
Angular’s built-in routing works wonders. you can do so by either registering the route with the hash in the URL or you can states ( html5Mode set to true ). This will leverage html5’s...
Raspberry Pi – Sharing file between PI and Mac
Mounting the raspberry pi home directory to avoid the push / pull game with git can become painful. It’s relatively straight forward to get shared folders using the appletalk protocol