How to load some initial data after spinning up a mongo with Docker.

If you want to follow the examples:

git clone https://github.com/itenium-be/Docker-Mongo
cd Docker-Mongo
docker compose up -d --build

# After fiddling, force re-creating the mongos:
docker compose down -v
docker compose up -d --build

It seems that pretty much everyone is using some sort of UI for their git interactions.

Which is obviously fine, until they are about to create a commit, in which case it’s using the “add all changes”-button and commit.

Good PR hygiene starts with keeping your commits small and focused: check your changes and exclude everything that is not part of the UserStory per se.

That’s why I advocate the use of git add --patch which gives you fine-grained control of exactly what you’re going to commit!

You’ve got yourself a brand new Synology. Now you need ssh, git and Docker so you can actually start using it for more than, you know, mere file storage.

For our bootcamp this year, Tom Pauwaert introduced us to the Unreal Engine. We started from the course materials of Emiel Sleegers to build a landscape inspired by the grandeur of ancient Rome and Greece.

The next iteration of the itenium Security Bootcamp is at the Michigan Technology Conference 2024. Its vulnerable applications will be running for the duration of the conference: exploit the vulnerabilities (hack!?) and submit captured flags in the Portal website.

Here is how those that will participate can prepare themselves.

If the term SQL Injection does not ring a bell, you may want to start by reading up on that and other vulnerabilities such as: XSS, CSRF, OWASP, …

Comparing .NET Testing Frameworks.

xunit/xunit : Community-focused unit testing tool

nunit/nunit : NUnit Framework

microsoft/testfx : MSTest framework and adapter

Angular 17 has landed with a rebranding, and an a new documentation home which now also offers an interactive learning experience, but what else is new?

There are a plethora of improvements such as:

• hydration graduated from developer preview
• standalone APIs is now the default
• new @angular/ssr package
• improved SSR functionality
• the Signals API is mostly out of developer preview (effect() remains in it)
• new afterRender and afterNextRender lifecycle hooks
• Vite & esbuild are now the default for new projects
• experimental view transition support
• automatic preconnect in the image directive
• defer loading of the animations module
• style and styleUrls as strings
• …

Kent Beck, who certainly isn’t an unknown name in the software development world recently published this book, which is based upon his newsletter with the same name.

Price: €39.99 for the eBook
Publication date: October 2023
Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Pages: 99
ISBN: 9781098151249