Add unsupported resolution to old monitors in KDE
I recently grabbed an old VGA flatscreen monitor (HP 2011x) third hand to use as a second display.
Right out of the gate I had a problem: Under Ubuntu 16.04LTS KDE would not see it as anything other than a 1024x768 monitor Even though it supports 1600x900. After some playing around I think I have a way to manage things that makes sense for me under KDE.
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Jenkins and github integration for the testinggoat book
This article describes my Jenkins setup for going through the book Test-Driven Development with Python
We will discuss the following steps:
- Initial linode setup (Ubuntu 16.04LTS)
- securing your linode
- setting up jenkins
- Nginx reverse proxy for jenkins with free SSL using let's encrypt
- github integration with protected branches based on our tests
- better tracking and presentation of our test runs via xUnit (as per John Fitzpatrick's suggestion on the Chapter 24 page of the book)
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A better way to run QUnit tests.
There is a much simpler and better way to run QUnit tests for Test-Driven Development with Python
After trying to use the xUnit plugin for Jenkins (which I will be writing about more in depth soon) I ran into the problem of generating JUnit reports for QUnit tests. This article is about my solution to that problem.
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Enabling private pages
I wanted to make a private blog post so I could share a future blog post with someone for review before publishing.
Turns out that the implementation of this blog software prevents the page privacy settings from working out of the box.
I would like to say I figured this out myself but all of the credit goes to Mattwestcot on the wagtailcms slack server.
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Modifying my blog to support StreamFields in blog posts
I wanted to write some articles about configuring Jenkins but I quickly found out that I was quite limited with the blog software out of the box. I wanted to be able to post inline screenshots, source code and other things and that really wasn't easy to do with just a plain markdown body on the PostPage.
That's a bummer but everything I'm doing on this domain is a learning …
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