Over the past decade, Docker has transformed server hosting by introducing containerization, and Minecraft Bedrock Edition servers are no exception. Containerized servers are lightweight, portable, and easy to manage compared to traditional hosting solutions. In this guide, I’ll walk you through setting up a Minecraft Bedrock Edition server using Docker and Portainer, a user-friendly container … Read more
Intro This is one of my favorite topics as of late – Clean Architecture, the Do’s and Don’ts of how to write awesome software. At some point in your software development career, you’ll want to start taking things to the next level. That one liner might not be as magical anymore; or maybe you’re hazed … Read more
Callbacks Understanding callbacks is essential, they not only provide a means to application flow, but allow you to write cleaner, and more modular code too. You must understand that functions are first class citizens in JavaScript, they can be stored in variables, passed into functions, and returned as a result of an operation. Using a … Read more
Intro This tutorial will show you an example app I wrote in AngularJs for the popular video game World of Warcraft. It will show you how to create simple http requests against Blizzard’s API, you’ll need to register for an API key there if you plan on running this app. It will then demonstrate how to … Read more
Getting started in the world of .Net and C# isn’t easy; I have a JavaScript background and it was tough for me at least. So, here is a simplified walk through of creating a “Code-First” database using the Entity Framework. Code First is a convention where by you write code (models) to represent entities in … Read more
Often, I find people asking the question about how to properly use promises and http factories, to retrieve data from a web service in AngularJs. I want to share the way I’ve adapted to using factories, which has streamlined the way I use them throughout my applications. As you know, $http supports promise chaining, which … Read more
Today I will show you how to install word press on an existing LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP ). This is a super quick install, that will have you running WordPress in no time. Once connected to your Linux server via SSH, you’ll want to run the following commands as the root user. Switch … Read more
Often times, when providing your own Minecraft hosting solution, you’ll have the need to run multiple servers within your network (Aka, hosting from a home server). This is easily do-able, all you need to do is run the secondary Minecraft server on a different port. This approach has a major downside however, players will now … Read more
Making a web request is an essential part of most JavaScript applications. AngularJS makes it very easy for us to make these requests, using the $http service, provided out of the box. Lets set up our base AngularJS application: Now lets add an Angular factory, to provide the rest of our application access to the … Read more