Fast directory navigation using the CDPATH
For a long time I’ve used my own command alias to navigate through my
work related projects and jump to them using the cx
Originally the x comes from Xing where I worked at the time. It also
happens that the letter x is located next to the c which makes it very
convenient like cd.
Blog redesign
It’s been a while since I worked on the blog’s design. The design dated back to 2011 which is like an eon in Internet time and I didn’t particularly liked how it looked anymore so I decided to change it.
I normally don’t do any design work and CSS is not something I’ve enjoyed particularly but I’ve always used this space to work on that area.
Packaging AWS Lambda dependencies using docker
Recently I’ve been using AWS Lambda at work for some projects and one of the limitations that you have is trying to use packages with compiled dependencies.
Compiling them on your machine won’t work and the “recommended” way is to start an EC2 instance and compile your dependencies there and then copy those to your machine back.
Fortunately AWS now provides a docker image for amazon linux which we can leverage to build our depencies. We can avoid launching an instance and get faster results.
Using docker containers with your existing rails app
This tutorial is an extraction from a talk I recently presented about docker and rails apps at the Barcelona on Rails user group. I’ll explain how to integrate docker into an existing rails app workflow.
Faster docker containers development using fig
Yesterday I had the opportunity to present a lightning talk on the Barcelona Docker Group about working with fig.
During the talk I presented a tool that is helping me focus on developing the different containers and make the changes to the Dockerfile and the apps themselves and leave out the details of using fig.
The tool is called guard-fig.