My Software Cookbook

Changing Github Pages theme from Jekyll minima to Beautiful Jekyll while upgrading to Ruby 2.7 [Read More]

While cleaning up the files on my NAS, I came across some old virtual hard drive files (*.vhd). One that was called ‘DevStation’ I still recognized from my days as a consultant. My manager had requested someone on the bench to create a standardized virtual machine using VirtualBox that people... [Read More]

My site is based on the default Jekyll theme minima. It’s a one-size-fits-all Jekyll theme for writers that can get you up-and-running quite quickly. Luckily it can be easily customized to fit your needs. I followed the minima README file and this guide by Yi Ou to avoid having to... [Read More]

Since some time I’ve been planning to move my blog away from blogspot to Github Pages. I could have done it the traditional way and uploaded html files, but Github Pages support blogging with Jekyll using beautifull markdown (sic) so that’s what I wanted to try out. [Read More]

An anonymous poster on my fifth post about Single Page Applications (SPA) asked if it was possible to deploy SPAs on Windows Azure. As it turns out the Windows Azure Web Site offering makes this very easy to do if you build your SPA as outlined in that post. [Read More]