How to find the iCal address for a public Google calendar
Behind every great Google calendar URL is an equally amazing iCal file. Here's how to find it.
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3 Ansible playbooks, 2 DO droplets, and a website... in a pear tree 🎄
Running through another of Erika's Ansible posts with example playbooks, creating a few pointless ones of my own, and discovering just how easy it is to deploy a website running on Apache!
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Hands-on Ansible, using two DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplets
Today I'm wrapping my head around a build tool called Ansible, used for deploying machines in a scriptable, repeatable manner. Follow along as I step through an excellent tutorial from DigitalOcean, applying what I learn to a couple DO Ubuntu VMs... the $5/mo ones - nothing fancy needed!
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Jumpin' on the Docker train (better late than never...)
I've had no reason to learn Docker so far, but it's been around for years, I've heard others talk about it, and now I feel like I should already know it. Well, we're using it where I work to varying degrees and I think I may be delving into some of it soon, so...... time to get the basics.
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How to modify a config file in Erlang
I was tasked this week with writing an escript to modify an Erlang config file. All I needed was to read it in, make a couple updates, and write it back out. Should be easy, right? Please make it easy Erlang. No? Of course not... this is Erlang after all.
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