I've been working with Kubernetes a lot and focusing on various deployment techniques that can be used (such as Blue-Green Deployments) for a Pluralsight course I'm creating called Kubernetes for Developers: Deploying Your Code. If you're new to Blue-Green Deployments, here's a quick overview: …

Lately we've been working on a new Docker and Kubernetes instructor-led training class that we'll be running onsite at several companies this year. The class uses Docker Desktop and the Kubernetes features it provides for several of the chapters. We needed to get the local cluster students will use …

I’m excited to announce the release of another course on Pluralsight titled Creating Object-oriented TypeScript Code! If you've been wanting to learn more about ES2015 features as well as object-oriented features available in TypeScript then this this is the class for you! Here are a few questions …

Observable Store now supports extensions! These can be added when the application first loads by calling ObservableStore.addExtension(). The first built-in extension adds Redux DevTools integration into applications that use Observable Store. The extension can be found in the …

I recently needed to cleanup a bunch of old Docker images on a VM that I run in Azure. While I could remove each image one by one using the standard docker rmi \IMAGE IDS\ command, removing multiple images all at once as a batch was preferable. It turns out that removing a specific range of images …

I recently bought a new iMac and moved all of my files over using Time Machine. The migration went really well overall and within a few hours I had my development machine up and running. After starting an application I'm building I quickly realized that I couldn't get MongoDB to start. Running the …

I'm excited to announce the release of Observable Store 2.0 on npm! You can get started using it with the standard npm install command: bash npm install @codewithdan/observable-store The Github repository provides information about the specific steps to get started and how Observable Store can be …

I’m excited to announce the release of my next course on Pluralsight titled Kubernetes for Developers: Core Concepts! Since creating the Docker for Web Developers course I've been wanting to create a course that takes developers to the "next level" with containers and the new Kubernetes for …

I'm working on an npm package that requires RxJS as a peerDependency which means that whatever app uses the package must also install RxJS. Since my npm package project needs RxJS to build, I add it as a devDependency which of course adds it into the node\modules folder of the project. To use my …

Image created by Mohamed Hassan I'm currently working on a project that relies on jasmine-ts to run unit tests. While it's been working great, I encountered a bug in a unit test that required a lot more than a simple console.log() statement to figure out. I needed real debugging! Since my unit …