This is a vastly oversimplifed and technically inaccurate description of how to use devcontainers to make software development easier. I'm writing it for someone who's never used them before. Virtual Machines When you run a virtual machine, you have a host OS (whether that's

First of all - a quick question: am I stupid? The idea behind Operations seems so simple and so natural to me, I'm really surprised that no-one seems to have done it before. So either I'm a total genius who has just invented something amazing, or

Years ago, I worked at a hosting company called Brightbox. Being a hosting company and being responsible for their customer's data meant that security was a high priority for them. One day, we were discussing some new feature and the CTO, John, pointed out a security flaw in

(It might not be fun. And there won't be any profit) In Collabor8Online we have "automations". These are sort of like pipelines but very specific to how C8O works. The current implementation is used when a task moves through a (user-defined) workflow and changes state. And

(or, in some cases, things I already knew but never really cared about) Microsoft Word's .docx format is officially called the "Office Open XML Format" and has been managed by ECMA since 2006. The specification consists of four documents. The first one, "Fundamentals and Markup

Or why Ben Brereton-Diaz changed his name. I've never really been in to data and statistics. I'm not great at maths and it gets tiring figuring things out from first principles every time I need to do some calculation. And while I'm pretty impressed

An exercise in Test Driven Development: Kata No. 9 You Aren't Going to Need it - until you do Last night, at the North West Ruby Group, we did an exercise in Kata No. 9. This meant using Test-Driven Development to design a Checkout class that could deal