Posts by: Quintessence Anx

I will mostly be following the instructions from here, but instead of Ubuntu I am going to try CentOS. Getting Started All you will need to start, aside from the obvious internet connection, is a Digital Ocean account. I’ve found that the $5/mo. plan is really good for learning. Spin up your droplet This is

One of my goals of today was to figure out how to deploy WordPress to Cloud Foundry. I figured this was a pretty simple goal, but alas there is a trick to it. Note: I deployed the following to Pivotal Web Services. Set up your MySQL service instance. To use the PWS ClearDB (MySQL) free

Right now I’m working on learning Go by writing a small app that will, eventually, take a Markdown file and convert it to an HTML presentation. When I started working on my program today, my code wouldn’t compile. It was referring to missing packages/etc. I thought, well this can’t be good. First step, check $GOPATH

What is Cloud Foundry Playground? Cloud Foundry Playground is a Go app that allows users to start learning Cloud Foundry without installing all the necessary tools or using a free online trial of a service, e.g. Pivotal Web Services. Cloud Foundry Playground is still under development, so it is important to note that: At the

Recently, we wrote all of our slides in Markdown and used mdpress (see post here), which was my official dive into Markdown. Prior to that, my exposure had been pretty limited. Since Markdown is commonly used, I’m going to do a quick run through. The What and Why Markdown is both a syntax and a

Recently we had a bit of a conundrum – we were going to give a presentation where the client wanted access to the slides, but had no access to Google Drive on their corporate network, and also wanted PDFs of the slides for note taking/printed copies. Our solution? HMTL5/JavaScript slides and a little app that