Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

Continuous Integration and Deployment, or CI/CD, is the process of streamlining and accelerating development by automatically building and testing every commit to your project. GitLab integrates CI/CD into their git solution extremely well, and we&#82… Continue reading →

Delegates, Actions, and Funcs are all C# types focused around a similar concept: storing references in a variable to functions and methods, which can be invoked later on to execute the method it points to. We’ll discuss the differences between th… Continue reading →

Allocating memory in C# is relatively expensive, and is a key point of optimization for any performance-critical application. Object Pooling is one technique that can help reduce the overhead of a memory-intensive application.Read This Article on Cloud… Continue reading →

You can make your bash scripts run differently based on the contents of a MySQL database by connecting to it from the command line and passing a query, which you can use in if blocks to branch based on a value.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT &rsaqu… Continue reading →

Wordpress is extremely popular, powering 30% of the entire internet, and it’s used for many different tasks. We’ll take a look at what your options are if you don’t want to use Wordpress for your website.Read This Article on CloudSavv… Continue reading →

Unix sockets are a form of communication between two processes that appears as a file on disk. This file can be used by other programs to establish very fast connections between two or more processes without any network overhead.Read This Article on Cl… Continue reading →

Whenever a process is created in a Linux system, it is given a new number that identifies it to other applications. This is the process ID, or PID, and it is used throughout the system to manage running processes.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT &rsa… Continue reading →

Webpack is a utility that can bundle your JavaScript files together. This allows you to be more organized and productive, and also allows the use of preprocessed languages like SASS and TypeScript.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

Blind people use the internet, too, so making your site accessible to them—and others with disabilities—will improve their experience with your business. Also, if you are a government contractor, this may be required of you by law.Read This… Continue reading →

If you’re doing any sort of web development, you’re probably going to have to learn and write JavaScript at some point. Node is meant to simplify web application development by unifying the server and client side languages.Read This Article… Continue reading →

phpMyAdmin is a great tool for managing a MySQL database, but putting access to your database behind a web interface is an major security problem. Here are a few ways to mitigate the risks involved with runing phpMyAdmin.Read This Article on CloudSavvy… Continue reading →

Microsoft provides two different .NET runtimes: .NET Framework and .NET Core. Both implement the .NET Standard and code between each is fairly cross-compatible, but .NET Framework only works on Windows. We’ll discuss the differences between the t… Continue reading →

tmux, short for terminal multiplexer, is a command line utility that makes working from the terminal much easier. It allows you to split your terminal window into many panes, which will persist across multiple SSH sessions.Read This Article on CloudSav… Continue reading →

AMP is a framework for making fast mobile sites, and it currently powers over 43% of search results. Switching your site over to AMP can give you a huge boost in traffic. How does it work?Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

If you’ve gotten locked out of your Wordpress instance, you can always reset your password by manually editing the table that it uses to store passwords in, provided you have access to the MySQL database.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

Athena is an AWS service that can scan data stored in S3 and return results based on queries, using standard SQL statements that you would use for a traditional database. It’s particularly useful for extracting data out of CSV and large text file… Continue reading →

React is a web framework used to make interactive applications that depend on JavaScript for rendering dynamic content. It powers Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and many other online services. Here’s how to get started with it.Read This Article on… Continue reading →

In any professional environment, properly documenting your code with comments is necessary for long-term readability. For .NET code, Microsoft provides a system for XML-based comments that provide enhanced IDE support.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT… Continue reading →

If you want to set up a redirect to a different website, you don’t need to set up any routing rules on a web server or mess about with JavaScript; HTML has redirect tools built in using meta tags. We’ll discuss how and when to use them.Rea… Continue reading →

If you want to make web requests in C#, or just want to do some background processing, you’ll need to use asynchronous background tasks to not block up the main thread. We’ll discuss what they are, and how to use them.Read This Article on C… Continue reading →