A technical guide explaining how to handle the double slash in URLs within Xcode xcconfig files to avoid comment interpretation issues.
Announces the latest updates to the Microsoft DSC Resource Kit, highlighting new PowerShell resources for Desired State Configuration.
A guide to using dotfiles to customize and optimize your software development tools like shells and text editors for greater productivity.
A tutorial for setting up Puppet in standalone mode on Fedora 23, including writing manifests and Serverspec tests.
A guide to using PHPDotEnv for secure, environment-specific configuration in CraftCMS, avoiding hard-coded settings in version control.
Guide to configuring advanced Certificate Services (AD CS) settings like AIA and CDP using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) and certutil.
A quick PowerShell 5.0 script to install or update all DSC resources from a repository, with a note on trusting sources.
A PowerShell module called DSC Tools that simplifies the setup and configuration of Desired State Configuration (DSC) Pull Servers and Local Configuration Manager.
Explores the differences between DevOps practices and Platform Engineering, arguing that platforms provide a consistent contract for applications.
A guide to configuring a Linux swap device on AWS instances using Cloud-Init's cloud-config syntax for persistent setup.
A developer's guide to using Vagrant for virtual machine management and transitioning from shell scripts to Puppet for advanced provisioning.
Chef 12 ends support for Ruby 1.8 and older 1.9 versions, requiring Ruby 1.9.3+. This allows cookbook developers to use modern Ruby features.
Explains why Chef runs fail with authentication errors and provides a simple fix using the no_lazy_load setting.
A tutorial on using Packer.io's user variables and provisioners (file, shell) to build and configure virtual machines.
A talk on Chef Sugar, a Ruby library for Chef, covering its history and technical internals.
Announcing Chef Sugar v1.2.0, a Ruby gem that extends Chef's DSL with new features like attribute namespaces and version constraints.
Explains how to modify Chef resource attributes at runtime using the resources method, useful for wrapper cookbook patterns.
A developer's perspective on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), its principles, and its role in modern DevOps practices.
A tutorial on creating a configuration settings file for a Drupal 8 module, covering the YAML structure and schema.
A technical tutorial on creating a settings page for a Drupal 8 module, focusing on configuration forms and the Global Redirect module.
