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…
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…
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…
EC2: “chmod ugo+rw ~” breaks SSH
"chmod go+rw ~" breaks SSH Quick note: running chmod go+rw /home/ec2-user could break subsequent attempts to SSH into the EC2 instance. When all the usual suspects regarding SSH identity files,…
Spring boot w/ Thymeleaf, jQuery & jQuery UI, and Bootstrap
A more typical/modern setup would be to replace JSP with one of the template engines and JS and styling libraries: Thymeleaf as the templating engine jQuery as the JavaScript library…
New home!
THEREALVAN.COM has moved to a new home! The previous hosting company had a good introductory rate, but the regular rate was too high for a relatively inactive site like this one.…