Fast Guide to Launching an EC2 Instance w/ SSH Access
Concepts Minimal number of concepts to understand: Key pair -- a pair of public and private cryptographic keys that will be used to establish a secure shell/terminal to the launched…
Django’s (default) Permission Codenames
Permission String The documentation for Django authentication (e.g. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/auth/default/#permissions-and-authorization) talks about allowing code to restrict access to models through a vague notion of a "permission." Read further and you kinda…
More MVN Repository Notes
More findings from working with MVN repository When mvn release:perform is run, there are two steps that I didn't pay attention to before. Of course, the building, signing, and uploading…
Publishing a Java project into MVN Repository
It turns out that this is quite an involved process with a lot of configuration and coordination w/ Sonatype. It took several days, upwards to a week or so, for…
Too Many Languages!
ARGH! I've been bounced between languages. It's driving me NUTS. This is a comparison of how to do something in each to help me map between them. There is definitely…
Grails—Unit Testing View Rendering (with custom TagLib namespace quirk)
Background GroovyPageUnitTestMixin From the Grails guide, testing a view in a unit test involves: Annotating the Specification with: @TestMixin(GroovyPageUnitTestMixin). Calling render(view: '...', model: ...) or render(template: '...', model: ...) whose…
Some Docker Notes
Some Docker notes of commands for reference Images Listing images docker images Running images docker run <image name> docker run <repo name>/<image name> Building images Create a Dockerfile file with…