There is a wealth of documentation about how to generated a Certificate using letsencrypt, the EFF free tool. However, if you are using g-suite to manage your main website or want an SSL certificate to do some testing during development, and may not have shell access to the WWW server (and, further, you are unable … More HOW-TO Generate an SSL Certificate with letsencrypt.com
Overview The java.util.Optional class is a great addition in Java 8 as it enables a more expressive way of conveying the concept of a library API return value that may not be there. While it is not meant to replace the use of null values in code (and you will get warnings not to use … More A better mousetrap (or, how to improve on Java 8 Optional)
Create a setup.py file The arguments for setup() are documented here and are non-trivial: a good example is my filecrypt‘s setup.py file. NOTE Do not confuse setuptools with distutils – this is the correct import for setup.py: from setuptools import setup The trickiest part is figuring out the packages, modules and the script files: probably … More HOW-TO Publish a Pyton Package on PyPi
If you are using a private registry with a self-signed certificate, and need to connect to it from a macOS laptop, you are likely to incur in the following error: $ docker-compose up -d Pulling search (docker.registry.mydomain.io:5000/image:2.0.1)… ERROR: Get https://docker.registry.mydomain.io:5000/v1/_ping: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority it turns that (a) there is not much of … More Docker for Mac and insecure registries
This is the third and final part of a three-part series: Part 1 describes the required setup and how to get Apache Mesos Master and Agent running in two Vagrant VMs; Part 2 shows how to connect to the HTTP API and accept resource offers. This series is an extended (and updated) version of the … More A python notebook to experiment with the Apache Mesos HTTP API – Part 3 of 3
This is the second part of a three-part series: Part 1 describes the required setup and how to get Apache Mesos Master and Agent running in two Vagrant VMs This series is an extended (and updated) version of the talk I gave at MesosCon Europe 2015 updated for Apache Mesos 1.0.0, which has just been … More A python notebook to experiment with the Apache Mesos HTTP API – Part 2 of 3
This is the first of a series of three articles that shows how to setup a Vagrant-based Apache Mesos test/development environment on your laptop; then how to run a Python notebook against the HTTP API; and finally, how to launch Docker containers on the running Agent VM. It is pretty jam-packed and requires a certain … More A python notebook to experiment with the Apache Mesos HTTP API – Part 1 of 3
Make your code more pythonic by using magic methods in your classes. … More Python Magic Methods
overview Uses OpenSSL library to encrypt a file using a private/public key pair and a one-time secret. A full description of the process can be found here. configuration This uses a YAML file to describe the configuration; by default it assumes it is in /etc/filecrypt/conf.yml but its location can be specified using the -f flag. … More filecrypt – OpenSSL file encryption
A new (remastered) set of Ardis icons for Ubuntu desktop has recently been released, and they are a very pretty eye-candy (working really well with the Ambiance Crunchy theme – favor the green variant).
