Introductions and tips for various useful development tools & utilities.
Category: Tools
Episode #628
Process Substitution
In this Bash-focused episode, we'll explore a nifty trick for reading from subcommands as if they were files!
Episode #627
Rake Global Tasks
Rake isn't just for running tests. You can use Rake to organize all your favorite development automation tasks across ALL your projects. Find out how, in this episode!
Episode #625
Docker Diff
"What did that program change?!!" - In today's episode you'll see how you can definitively answer this question, using a built-in feature of Docker!
Episode #624
ltrace
As we've explored recently, strace is a powerful tool for understanding how a program interacts with the operating system. But it's only for system calls. Learn how to use ltrace …
Episode #623
Strace
Learn to use strace - a powerful microscope for peering into a program's interactions with the operating system.
Episode #621
lsof; or: what process is using my port?!
Have you ever gone to start a local development server, only to have it complain that the port is already taken? In this episode you'll learn about how to use …
Episode #620
Serverless Ruby with AWS SAM
Once you start developing serverless code in earnest, you need a testable local dev environment and reliable deployment automation. In today's episode, you'll learn how to use the AWS Serverless …
Episode #614
NPM for Dev Dependencies
No matter what language you program in for a living, skill with JavaScript tools and libraries has become essential. Learn from Jessica Kerr how to use NPM to document project …
Episode #612
VS Code and Docker
Learn how Microsoft’s open source VS Code editor, already a very good programmer’s editor, now has a game changing feature that sets VS Code apart from anything else out there.