Document generation using Markdown and Pandoc

Maintaining documentation can be an involved process, especially when different versions and output formats are needed. One of the documents I, and probably you also, have to maintain is your work history or resume/CV. Some while back I changed this document from an OpenOffice document to plain text and ...

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non-root user inside a Docker container

One of the things that you notice when using Docker, is that all commands you run from the Dockerfile with RUN or CMD are performed as the root user. This is not only a bad security practice for running internet facing services, it might even prevent certain applications from working ...

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Setting up a powerful self-hosted IDE in the cloud

Setting up infrastructure should be as simple as playing with LEGO. With the advent of Docker, IT has underwent a dramatic change. For instance, it became easy to setup throw-away development environments. These could then be used to create clean environments to perform builds in. And eventually, containers are starting ...

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Software Distribution for a new era

In this presentation I will introduce Software Distribution for a new era. In short it will explain the negatives of using packages, how 'containers' improved on this, but now how to make this available for use on servers and desktops.

In short it will talk about the following topics:

  • container ...
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