Adding Autocompletion to Bash Scripts

Adding Autocompletion to Bash Scripts

Jake Everhart Articles, Automation, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

If you have ever mashed the Tab key to finish typing a filename or to show you the available flags to use when running a program, you know that autocompletion can be a great improvement for a command-line tool. But how easy is this to implement for your own executables?

This blog is a guide providing an overview of how autocompletion can be achieved through bash. We will see some of the core concepts in action, focusing on how they interact with each other and the behavior that results.

Application Security

Top Security Mistakes to Avoid in AppDev

Zach Gardner All Industries, Architecture, Articles, Financial, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing, Security, Spring, Supply Chain & Logistics Leave a Comment

Developing custom applications is one of the hardest professional endeavors, and making them secure is even harder. Malicious actors are constantly changing tactics and strategies, which, unfortunately, makes it impossible to completely eliminate any security threat.

There needs to be a balance between delivering features quickly to meet business objectives and mitigating security risks. Thankfully, these two goals are not mutually exclusive. This blog post dives into the top mistakes that can be made while developing custom applications.

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Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi

Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi

Lou Mauget Articles, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Kubernetes, Tutorial 3 Comments

Kubernetes, or k8s, is an important container orchestration platform. In this blog, I’ll describe creating a workable Kubernetes cluster implemented on a stack of four Raspberry Pi boards. In the end, I’ll have provided an outline of how I created it and I’ll show how to replicate a stateless app across Kubernetes pods running on the nodes โ€” the Pi boards.

Batching Excel Files in Azure to Order DME

Batching Excel Files in Azure to Order DME

Zach Gardner Architecture, Articles, Azure, Cloud, Tutorial Leave a Comment

The steps described in this blog post allow for the adding of a Logic App on Azure to append rows to an Excel file. It took a lot of trial, and mostly error, to figure out how to describe what I wanted in the way that the Logic App would understand. Hopefully, the steps that I outlined in this blog post will save others the time it took me to come up with them.