In this final Programming By Stealth and final Chit Chat Across the Pond for 2021, Bart teaches us how to manage our documentation in JSDoc. As any good programmer, he insists on automating as much as he possibly can. He starts by showing us each step that we have to do at the command line, […]
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CCATP #708 – Bart Busschots on PBS 131 – Introducing JSDoc
This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond is another installment of Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots. In our last installment, Bart explained why good documentation matters to ourselves and to other developers who want to use our code, and he also explained that using an automatic document generator like JSDoc could help make it […]
Continue readingCCATP #706 – Bart Busschots on PBS 130 of X – Good Technical Documentation
As we embark on our journey to create a JavaScript module for the strong, memorable password generating service XKPASSWD, Bart explains the importance of creating good documentation. That sounds super annoying and tedious, and it is, so Bart explains why a good documentation generator will be our friend. He outlines the two distinctly different users […]
Continue readingCCATP #703 – Bart Busschots on PBS 128 of X – JavaScript Module Basics
This installment of Programming By Stealth could probably have been two segments but all of us are itching to get moving quickly so we decided to power through. In the first part of the installment, Bart introduces us to JavaScript modules by giving us a bit of a history lesson on how they’ve evolved. If […]
Continue readingCCATP #701 – Bart Busschots on PBS 127 of X – Introducing NPM (and Node)
As we launch full steam into Phase 2 of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots introduces us to the Node Package Manager and Node itself. Unlike our mini-series within a series for Git and Chezmoi, Bart isn’t going to do an exhaustive walk through NPM and Node. Instead he’s going to teach use what we need […]
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Time Shifter Clock V2 is Released – Now With More Cities!
Time Shifter Clock V2 on iPhone I’ve been working on a major update to my Time Shifter Clock for quite a long time, and it’s finally released and is now available at timeshifterclock.com. I even bought it its own domain name! If you’re not familiar with my web app, let me tell you the problem […]
Continue readingCCATP #700 – Bart Busschots on PBS 126 of X – Introducing Phase 2
At episode 700! of Chit Chat Across the Pond we take Programming By Stealth into what Bart is calling Phase 2. We’ve learned a great deal about the client side of programming and we’re now going to move to the server side of the web. As Bart described Phase 2, I realized that it’s as […]
Continue readingCCATP #699 – Bart Busschots on PBS 125 of X – Chezmoi on Multiple Computers
In this final episode of Programming By Stealth before we launch into the back end of web development with PHP, Bart finishes his miniseries on Chezmoi to manage dot files. In this installment he teaches us how to effectively manage our dot files on multiple computers using templating to ensure that the correct settings end […]
Continue readingCCATP #695 – Bart Busschots on PBS 122 – Managing Dot Files with Chezmoi
In our previous installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart introduced us to Chezmoi, an open source tool to help us manage dot files, those hidden configuration files that get created on our Macs. Configuration files contain information about how we like our Macs configured, including where to access our ssh keys and our preferred command […]
Continue readingCCATP #693 – Bart Busschots on PBS 121 of X — Managing Dot Files and an Introduction to Chezmoi
As we’ve become nerdier while learning from Bart, we have started to add hidden configuration files to our Macs and PCs. On the Mac, these configuration files hidden by default by putting a dot in front of them, and hence they are called dot files. Maybe you’ve stored your ssh keys, or in our Git […]
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