Instant reload with Django, NPM, and Browsersync

Angular's ng-options directive provides a nifty way to build a select element, but its handling of default values is a bit puzzling.

AngularJS: Adding a user-friendly default option to ng-options

A tutorial describing how to set up two-way binding between the browser's query string parameters and the state of $location.search() in AngularJS

AngularJS Query String handling using $location.search()

Using the Drupal 8 Migrate framework to migrate Taxonomy vocabularies and terms from a Drupal 7 site into Drupal 8.

Drupal 8 Migrations, part 3: Migrating Taxonomies from Drupal 7

Using the Drupal 8 Migrate framework to migrate basic nodes from a Drupal 7 site into Drupal 8.

Drupal 8 Migrations, part 4: Migrating Nodes from Drupal 7

In this article, we will be building a custom migration which will import users from a Drupal 7 site into a Drupal 8 site.

Drupal 8 Migrations, part 2: Migrating users from Drupal 7

Getting started with Drupal 8's built-in Migrate framework.

Migrating Content into Drupal 8

Notable changes from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8

Drupal 8: First Impressions for the Back-End Developer

Not all CD ripping software can rip a Castlevania: Symphony of the Night disc image that's compatible with the sotn.io randomizer. Here's how I did it, after much trial and error.

Ripping Castlevania: SOTN from CD for the Randomizer

Review of the Remastered Bard's Tale 2 game by InXile Entertainment

Review: The Bard's Tale II Remastered

This is the second part of a two-part series exploring the use of the Angular 6 HttpClient to make API calls against a Django back-end using Django Rest Framework.

Angular API Calls with Django, Part 2: Building the Micro-Blog App

This tutorial will show you some techniques for building a decoupled micro-blogging application using Angular 6 and the Django Rest Framework.

Angular API Calls with Django: Authentication with JWT

Angular's animation API is quite powerful. It can trigger various special effects when data changes or when an element is added or removed. The effects on adding and removing were useful to me in a recent project, so I thought I would take a closer look.

Angular animations - Fade In and Fade Out

A look at a few of the game's data structures, and how Angular's HttpClient can make API calls to a Django Rest Framework API in a decoupled application.

Angular text adventure, part 3: The game data models

A tutorial for upgrading Angular API calls to the new syntax for RxJS 6.

Angular 6: Upgrading API calls to RxJS 6

Using open-source map data to calculate the most remote location in a US state.

Spatial analysis with PostgreSQL and OpenStreetMap

Review of the Remastered Bard's Tale game by InXile Entertainment

Review: The Bard's Tale Remastered

I have had a few people remark to me their opinion that it's just plain impossible to develop websites on Windows. Then, how have I been doing it for the past ten years?

Yes, You Can Have a Nice Developer Experience on Windows!

A tutorial for upgrading Angular API calls in Angular 5.

Angular 5: Making API calls with the HttpClient service

A collection of examples showing how to use some features of the Drupal 8 Entity API.

Drupal 8 Entity API cheat sheet

An early Apple II maze game from 1982, Microwave was an addictive little game that was one of the first Apple II games to feature in-game music. It also contained one of the more amusing software bugs I've ever seen.

Retro-gaming corner: Microwave by Cavalier Computers

Using PuTTY and port forwarding to connect to a remote MS SQL database.

Proxying MS SQL connections using PuTTY

Using the Drupal 8 Migrate framework to migrate data from a JSON file instead of a database.

Drupal 8: Migrating data from JSON files 

How to push all branches in a repository to a new remote, even if the old remote is no longer available.

Git: Push All Branches to a New Remote

The second part of a series about rewriting the classic game, The Wonderful World of Eamon. Here I show the game’s command prompt and a few handy features in the command UI.

Angular text adventure, part 2: The command parser

The Apple II is long dead, and playing the original version of the text adventure game Eamon now requires an emulator. What if I could rewrite it for modern computers? A programming adventure using Django and Angular.

Eamon Remastered: Rewriting a Text Adventure Game in Angular

Hosting a Django site can be a bit of a puzzle, especially if you're used to PHP and Apache. This article shows how to configure Apache to host a Django site.

Hosting Django sites with Apache and mod_wsgi

Making the Django Router and Angular Router work together in the same project.

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