Setting up Git repo on Dreamhost
Create an empty repo Create an empty repo off of /home/username where username is your user name.The following will create an empty repo named "myrepo" in the subdirectory /home/username/myrepo.git cd…
Django app dev in Docker
Start with Docker's doc The link https://docs.docker.com/compose/django/ for the most part is valid in setting up a development environment for working with Django in Docker. Update to use Pipfile The…
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…
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…
Spring Boot on Scala
Using Spring Boot on Scala Assumption This example uses a project generated/seeded via Activator using the "minimal-scala" template. However, any project using SBT will probably work just as well. Add Spring…