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A 2-day open source bootcamp in a box
A 2-day open source bootcamp in a box

I’m excited to announce the publication of a 2-day open source bootcamp in a box! This boot camp was put together by Sam Wronski, Austin Akers and I, with help and support from GitHub, GitHub campus experts, and others from the open source community. Goals The goal of this bootcamp is to take …

Auto-posting to dev.to using a GitHub action
Auto-posting to dev.to using a GitHub action

I’ve been wanting to build a tool to post markdown automatically to blogging platforms. That way I (or anyone else) can write a blog post in markdown, save it in a GitHub repo, and have it automatically posted to a blogging platform of their choice. I’ve created a small Python app to do …

Getting started with GitHub Codespaces
Getting started with GitHub Codespaces

The bane of every new developers life is getting your environment set up to be productive. And when I say new developer - I don’t just mean a dev who is new to a team, but every developer who needs to work on a project they haven’t worked on before. Each project has it’s own …

Continuous deployment with JimLib
Continuous deployment with JimLib

Today I’ve finally moved to the world of continuous deployment - albeit for one of my projects only so far, but it’s a start. For my JimLib open source API I’ve automated the whole deployment process so after checkin it builds and deploys to NuGet automatically. Steps in the …

Complexion - an open source API for Plex
Complexion - an open source API for Plex

I’ve just released the first alpha version of Complexion, available on my GitHub page. This is my first true open source API, which I hope to put up on NuGet in the near future. This is a portable .Net API that connects to Plex - either to a local Plex Media Server specified by it’s IP …