The search chair of my CSE department at U. Michigan recently asked me what brought me to Michigan. So I shared my story… Hi Ben! I'd be happy to share my thoughts and experiences coming to Michigan from my prior institution. I remain delighted with...
Problem Gitlab has by far established itself as the de-facto standard if you want to privately, in your own cloud/cluster, host a code repo and have the nice interface and other trimmings typically provided by a Github. However, unlike other services out there, there’s very...
Goal / Problem The key goal that led to this solution is to have a single general implementation of a programming interface (we’ll refer to this core interface as the core) that can be the basis underlying various access points of that core interface. An...
Problem Swagger / OpenAPI can be regarded as the de-facto standard for API documentation and sandbox for experimenting with and learning a new API. Adding this to a REST API Django project is important. The process for this integration can have some hiccups based on...
Problem Jenkins is a “the [self-proclaimed] leading open source automation server” for continuous integration and software deployment. Given it’s popularity, it’s a good potential standard staple to have included in a major coding project. But how can we quickly plop (yes that’s the technical word)...
Problem It’s annoying when you commit code changes to a Django project and a bunch of migration, cache files, and other junk get’s unwittingly checked in mucking up the git repo. This is often the case when using the `git add –all’ command. Assumptions The...
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