Getting started with Vim visual mode
Ansible playbook files are text files in a YAML format. People who work regularly with them have their favorite editors and plugin extensions to make the formatting easier. When I teach Ansible with the default editor available in most Linux distributions, I use Vim’s visual mode a lot. It allows me to highlight my actions on the screen—what I am about to edit and the text manipulation task I’m doing—to make it...
NetLogo for scientific research: Modeling
NetLogo is an open source, cross-platform tool that enables users to model a wide variety of natural and social phenomena (including biology, chemistry, computer science, economics, physics, psychology, art, and much more). It’s a great way to learn how to develop small, agent-based model simulations and explore how large and small changes can affect an environment. read...
4 steps to becoming an awesome agile developer
Enterprises are rushing into their DevOps journey through agile software development with cloud-native technologies such as Linux containers, Kubernetes, and serverless. read...
What blockchain and open source communities have in common
One of the characteristics of blockchains that gets a lot of attention is how they enable distributed trust. The topic of trust is a surprisingly complicated one. In fact, there’s now an entire book devoted to the topic by Kevin Werbach. read...
