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Login Form - Introduction

Fully working user registration and login form with Angular, NodeJS, and MongoDB

Install Ghost in Docker, with SSL and Mail

Hi everyone, I recently updated Ghost to the latest version, and ran into a few issues with sending email and using SSL. In this post, we are going to setup nginx as our web server on the host, enable SSL with Let's Encrypt, and configure Ghost inside Docker with mail

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Quick Tip - Overwrite Database Settings with Environment Variables in Loopback 4

Loopback 4 quick tip. Set database connection settings programmatically with environment variables

Secure MongoDB with Docker

This time we are going to deploy a MongoDB instance within Docker and secure it with user authentication. When deploying MongoDB, it does not enable authentication by default. This might be desirable for local development, but when it comes time to deploy your application in projection that last thing you

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Loopback 4 Todo List API with MongoDB

Building a Todo List API in minutes with Loopback 4 and MongoDB

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GitLab Continuous Integration with Docker

Automate your testing, build process, integration, and deployment of your applications with GitLab.

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Fix Morgan logging with Docker and Nginx

Application logging is important. This week, we find out how to accurately log your NodeJS app running inside Docker

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Photo Gallery Part 6 - Saving Images to Database

Learn how to use GridFS to save and retrieve images in MongoDB.

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Photo Gallery Part 5 - Upload and Save images

Upload and save pictures in an AngularJS / NodeJS application

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Understand the Want and the Need comes easily

Part of my job is to meet with potential new customers and help them solve a problem that they are having. It's always important to listen during these meetings. Yes, we all want to win the business, but it's just as important to find out what the client wants. The

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Photo Gallery Part 4 - Angular Services & API Calls

Coding Tutorial - Using Angular Services and custom defined data types to add and view albums in our Photo Gallery app.

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Photo Gallery Part 3 - UI Design

Coding Tutorial - Building our User Interface of our Photo Gallery app. Leveraging Angular and Material Design to build our app.

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Photo Gallery Part 2 - Backend

Part 2 of building our Photo Gallery using Node, Express, Angular, and Mongo

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Microsoft buys GitHub - My Thoughts

Yesterday Microsoft announced their plans to acquire GitHub. As expected, the Internet blew up, with some projects even leaving the platform all together. Here are my thoughts, optimistic hopes, and an alternative code sharing service. First of all, if you know me, you'll know that I am a big open

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The endless search for more time

Have you ever wished for more hours in a day? If only there was a 25th hour in a day. You would for sure finish all of your work, wouldn't you? More time does not necessarily mean more productivity. As humans, we do a great job of filling up our

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Are you game day ready?

Are you a MVE(most valuable employee) or a bench warmer when you're needed most? In honor of last weeks Super Bowl and in reference to the extremely long week I had, is it fair for your employer to ask you to put in extra hours and to go above

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Photo Gallery Part 1 - Setup

This week is going to be part 1 of a tutorial series where we will be creating a photo gallery web app. We are going to start with the frontend, which will be using Angular 5, and then move to coding the backend in NodeJS and MongoDB. Before we dive

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Shutup, and Do It!

With almost a full month into the New Year, how many New Year's resolutions are you still keeping? Stop talking about it, and do it!