Programming

Preparing for the Kubernetes CKAD Certification

Beren Erchamion
December 15, 2019

I’ve been preparing for the Kubernetes CKAD certification exam from the Linux Foundation. It has been a fun learning process. I’ve learned a lot about k8s and quite a bit about general command line tricks that I have re-learned (or…

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Developing with Flutter

Beren Erchamion
July 23, 2019

Developing with Flutter looks like an interesting alternative to Kotlin, Swift, and React. Last year I worked thru my React Nanodegree so I didn’t feel like changing up directions yet. Google also has a tendency of starting many things, but…

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Programming

Linux Development on macOS with Parallels

Beren Erchamion
January 6, 2019

Recently I needed to do some linux development on macOS with Parallels so that I could debug some issues in a C++ project. macOS C++ is still a bit wonky for working with a C++ project written with standard libraries,…

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Building a New House of Beor Website with Gatsby Pt. 1

Beren Erchamion
November 21, 2018

Building a new website with Gatsby will take advantage of new React skills. I will be replacing the current Foundation based site with Gatsby and also integrating some API calls to this blog so that the latest posts will be…

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Getting Around with React-Native Navigation V2

Beren Erchamion
June 5, 2018

Getting around with React-Navigation V2 is quite a bit different from V1. Well – ok its totally different. That’s a good thing – there were some pretty limiting factors with V1 of the package. Controlling the flow of your screens…

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Reacting to React-Native – Building Native Mobile Apps

Beren Erchamion
May 13, 2018

As a follow on to my post about building web applications with React.JS, this post will be about building native mobile apps with React-Native. I’m not a JavaScript guru so as with my previous post on React.JS, this post is…

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