Brian MacDonald Mod
Editor at DigitalOcean, former book editor at Pragmatic, O'Reilly, and others. Occasional conference speaker. Highly nerdy.
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- Editing
- Writing
- Speaking
Interested in learning
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Machine learning
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Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Code in PHP
How To Work with Numbers in PHP
Being able to effectively perform mathematical operations in programming is an important skill to develop because of how frequently you’ll be working with numbers. This tutorial will go over many different operators t... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Create Web Sites with Flask
How To Use an SQLite Database in a Flask Application
In web applications, you usually need a database, which is an organized collection of data. SQLite is a simple and fast open source SQL engine that can be used with Python to store and manipulate application data. SQL... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Create Web Sites with Flask
How To Use Web Forms in a Flask Application
Flask is a lightweight Python web framework that provides useful tools and features for creating web applications in the Python Language. In this tutorial, you'll build a small web application with Flask that demonstr... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Code in PHP
Understanding Data Types in PHP
In PHP, as in all programming languages, data types are used to classify one particular type of data. This is important because the specific data type you use will determine what values you can assign to it and what y... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Create Web Sites with Flask
How To Handle Errors in a Flask Application
In this tutorial, you'll build a small web application that demonstrates how to handle common errors one encounters when developing a web application. You'll create custom error pages, use the Flask debugger to troubl... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Create Web Sites with Flask
How To Use Templates in a Flask Application
Jinja is the templating language that Flask uses to render HTML templates. Using templates allows you to separate the business logic of your application from the presentation logic. These templates provide many featur... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Code in JavaScript
Understanding This, Bind, Call, and Apply in JavaScript
The this keyword is a very important concept in JavaScript, and also a particularly confusing one to both new developers and those who have experience in other programming languages. In JavaScript, this is a reference... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Create Web Sites with Flask
How To Create Your First Web Application Using Flask and Python 3
Flask is a lightweight Python web framework that provides useful tools and features for creating web applications in the Python Language. In this tutorial, you'll build a small web application that renders HTML text o... -
Edited Tutorial
How To Speed Up Static Web Pages with Varnish Cache Server on Ubuntu 20.04
Varnish is a versatile reverse HTTP proxy that caches responses from backend servers in memory so they are served quickly from main memory when they are requested again.In this tutorial, you will set up Varnish as a c... -
Edited Tutorial
How To Develop a Docker Application on Windows using WSL, Visual Studio Code, and Docker Desktop
The Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 makes development enables development on Windows using Linux system tools. The WSL 2 allows for direct integration with Docker Desktop and has plugins for direct development using Vis... -
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How To Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 on Microsoft Windows 10
The Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 is a tool on Microsoft Windows 10 that allows developers to run a Linux environment directly on Windows without any modifications, secondary Virtual Machine software, or dual-boot set... -
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How To Use Telepresence on Kubernetes for Rapid Development on MacOS
Telepresence is a Cloud-Native Computing Foundation project for fast, efficient development on Kubernetes. Telepresence creates a bi-directional network connection between your Kubernetes cluster and your local workst... -
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How To Use Telepresence on Kubernetes for Rapid Development on Ubuntu 20.04
Telepresence is a Cloud-Native Computing Foundation project for fast, efficient development on Kubernetes. Telepresence creates a bi-directional network connection between your Kubernetes cluster and your local workst... -
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How To Display Data from the DigitalOcean API with Django
Django is a web framework written in Python. Django has been used in websites such as Mozilla, Pinterest and Instagram. You can use Django to display information from APIs (such as Instagram posts or GitHub repositori... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Code in Go
Understanding Pointers in Go
When writing software in Go you'll be writing functions and methods. You pass data to these functions as arguments. Sometimes, the function needs a local copy of the data, and you want the original to remain unchanged... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Code in Node.js
How To Use the Node.js REPL
The Node.js Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) is an interactive shell that processes Node.js expressions. The shell reads JavaScript code the user enters, evaluates the result of interpreting the line of code, prints the re... -
Edited Tutorial in Series: How To Code in Node.js
How To Write and Run Your First Program in Node.js
Node.js is a popular open-source runtime environment that can execute JavaScript outside of the browser using the V8 JavaScript engine, which is the same engine used to power the Google Chrome web browser's JavaScript...