frickjack

Last week I rolled out an update to apps.frickjack.com that changes the plumbing of the site. The javascript is now organized as un...

First, there's probably a better way to do this with kubectl rollout , but I didn't know that existed till last week. Anyway ......

I've been doing devops work over the last few months at CDIS . One of the tasks I worked on recently was to extend the nginx configur...

I recently setup a Jenkins CICD service to complement the Travis based automation already in use where I work . I worked with job-based J...

I had some fun over the last week setting up a docker image for an S3-copy utility, and integrating it into the gulp build for https://apps....

I've discussed before how I run https://apps.frickjack.com on S3 , but one issue I did not address was how to version updates, so that...

Docker defaults to using its aufs storage driver on Ubuntu 16.0.4, but the system has a 4.4 kernel, so it's probably a good idea to swi...

The other night I logged into the AWS web console, and upgraded my little S3 hosted site at https://apps.frickjack.com to http2 with TLS - ...

When I went to implement a content security policy on http://apps.frickjack.com I was disappointed to realize that the 'Content-Securi...

I finally updated my little S3 -hosted web sandbox at http://apps.frickjack.com . The update has a few parts. First - I took down some old...

Here's the situation. You're stuck in 2017 running Windows 7 with a Cisco VPN client. You're also a Docker evangelist, and run...

I often find myself in a situation where I'm building an image from some Dockerfile, and the build fails 10 or 15 lines in, and I want t...

Karma-runner is a great way to run jasmine javascript test suites. One trick to make it easy to customize karma's runtime behavior is...

I've been thinking a bit about authentication and authorization lately, and while I may have my head semi-wrapped around authentication ...

It's easy to write your own JUnit test-runner. A developer on the java-platform often writes code in the context of some framework or ...

I've started dusting off my old littleware project over the last month or so on a "dev" branch in github. As part of the clea...

An old-school PHP, Struts, JSF, Rails what have you webapp was deployed with a strong binding between the application's UX and backen...

The web project I work on has an old-school login with username and password, check the hash in the database, and set a cookie design th...

When transitioning from a virtual machine based deployment model to a container based model there are at least two ways to version an ap...

We started using bower to manage third party dependencies in our projects, and realized that we could also use bower to help decompos...