Codeanywhere adventures - Getting started with browser based development in containers (part 1)

Are you ready for some amazing, easy to use, developer tooling that requires not a single tooling installation and no configuration? 

That's what the team at Codeanywhere are promising us with their cloud IDE when I stumbled on their website last week. They "...don't require you to engage in complex installations and configuration setups. Simply access our in-browser IDE for everything you need to build amazing websites in a productive and more developer-friendly way."

Not only that, it's a browser-based developer IDE that ties your coding directly to a pipeline of deployment using containers with immediate friendly tips to access for testing your projects.

I'm thinking we need to look at this a bit closer and wanted to share my Codeanywhere adventures here with you, starting with part one, getting started.

Beginners Guide to Installing Process Automation Tooling in a Local Container using Podman

Recently the open source community project called Podman announced that there was solid support for using its container tooling to replace docker on your local development machine. Ring in the joyous music and off we go to explore how we can get back to basics without the issues of licensing around the developer desktop container tooling.

Note, the rest of this tutorial will be based on the current version of Podman at the time of publication, v3.3.1.

The first thing you want to do is just install the Podman tooling, which is fairly painless using BREW:

$ brew install podman

Now you are ready to kick off the virtual machine with the proper settings to start doing something real, like adding developer process automation tooling to your local machine.

DevConf.US 2021 - Designing your best architectural diagrams workshop (free online)

 DevConf.US 2021 the 4th annual, free, Red Hat sponsored technology conference for community project and professional contributors to Free and Open Source technologies was a few weeks ago. 

It was a lot of fun to share some of the below workshop experiences with the attendees virtually. Some of the fun I will share here as, believe it or not, I hosted the workshop online from the lovely island of Rhodes, Greece.

Now that the conference is done, I wanted to share the recording and also present the materials so that you can us this workshop as a self-paced experience with everything online. 

Let's take a look at how you can watch the introduction to the workshop, get online in a browser to follow the workshop labs, and use the browser-based diagram tooling to complete each of the workshop labs.

DevConf.CZ 2022 - Let's talk architecture

DevConf.CZ 2022 has kicked off their call for papers this last month and the initial planning is a hybrid event if possible with onsite + virtual event hosted on January 28-29. It's a free, Red Hat sponsored technology conference for community project and professional contributors to Free and Open Source technologies coming to a web browser near you!

There is no admission or ticket charge for the DevConf.CZ event. However, you are required to complete a free registration. Talks, presentations and workshops will all be in English.

I've put together the following collection of talks as my submissions and happy to preview them here with you.