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How to clone a CodeCommit repo inside a Cloud9 environment?
Cloud9 is Amazon’s cloud-based IDE that makes writing and building projects a breeze. There are no licensing fees involved (unlike PHPStorm or other similar IDEs) and the added benefit is that y...
Automatically close Angular Material Sidenav when menu element is clicked
I’ve recently started digging deeper into Angular Material – the UI kit by Google to be used in Angular projects. The stack of components available is pretty rich and flexible and includes...
Error while uploading APK to Firebase Test Lab: “The uploaded APK does not have a valid signature”. Reason and solution
Recently, while experimenting with Firebase’s new features in general, and more specifically – a tool called Test Lab, I encountered the following issue: whenever I tried to upload the APK...
Fixing a failing Composer installation: Unable to write keys.dev.pub to: /home/$USER/.composer
Recently, I started a project which uses Composer as a dependency management system. In the spirit of reducing the dependencies on the host system, I wanted to bundle even Composer itself inside the p...
Angular pipe for displaying a timestamp in a human-friendly way
A quick introduction into creating a custom Angular pipe for visualizing a timestamp like 3600 into a human friendly label like "1 hour"...
How to uninstall Swarmpit – the Docker Swarm orchestration tool
Recently, I’ve been looking for a good Docker container orchestration and host machine management tool and I’ve come across Swarmpit. It’s a wonderful tool and I recomment it to anyo...
Using a Samsung M2070 Printer on Ubuntu/Linux?
A quick guide into making sure you can print/scan stuff using your Samsung M2070 device on Ubuntu....
Samsung Unveils Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus
"Unbox your phone". That's the message behind the newest flagship device by Samsung, revealed today in a conference that was live streamed on Samsung's Facebook page and YouTube channel....
Angular 4.0.0-rc.6 released
Angular 4 Release Candidate 6 has just been released today (23 March 2017). The list of features and bugs fixed can be seen in the changelog, but the most important fixes are in the areas of the anima...
Creating a simple Angular 2 CRUD app, based on the MEAN stack
Angular2, Node.JS, Express and Mongo – one of the preferred stacks for fresh developers and experienced ones. Being a full-fledged solution that covers the frontend, server-side and database sto...