How to set up a git bare repository for web development code pushes

Hi all, let’s consider that you already have your nice local development environment in which you develop your projects. At some point you’ll want to get to get that project on a public server to share with friends, clients or maybe customers. And of course, since you’re using a version control, you want an easy way of pushing updates to that server. An easy way to do this, is set up a git bare repo on your server....

08 February, 2019 · 2 min · 360 words · Alexandru Bucur

How to setup Font Awesome 5 as VueComponent in Nuxt.js

There were a couple of things that I needed to understand in Nuxt.js so hopefully this will make it quicker for other people as well To have a global component in Nuxt, just create a plugin. Even if the documentation isn’t very clear on setting that up it works well if you look around the Github issue list Font Awesome 5’s VueJS integration works well, but you need to keep in mind to install the icon categories....

08 February, 2019 · 2 min · 225 words · Alexandru Bucur

PHP package management history

Reading the great article Modern Javascript Explained For Dinosaurs made me thinking on how that would look like if we were to look at PHP’s history of package management and autoloading. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away PHP 5 was released. It had numerous improvements compared with PHP 4 (while keeping backwards compatibility) but was still lacking a proper method of including/loading packages from other files....

08 February, 2019 · 4 min · 766 words · Alexandru Bucur

How to disable notifications in ASP.NET Core 2.0 for 'Missing XML comment for publicly visible type or member'

I’ve started playing with ASP.NET since I wanted for a long time to start learning C# but never had the time. Now with Core 2.0 it struck closer to home. Unfortunately, the biggest issue right now is that the documentation is sparse. Going trough the swagger tutorial requires to enable xml generation of the documentation in order to properly update the swagger definitions. Once that’s done you’ll be met with a nice warning Missing XML comment for publicly visible type or member that unfortunately is a pita to work with when developing in Visual Studio Code since it constantly nags you when starting the debugger....

08 February, 2019 · 1 min · 146 words · Alexandru Bucur