Vagrantfiles are used to configure vagrant virtual machines. This post goes a little beyond the basics of creating a Vagrantfile, and looks at some of the more advanced topics for writing a vagrantfile to make a more polished machine. I have posted before about how you can provision your virtual machine via the vagrantfile –… Read More »
Flask is a lightweight python web framework which can used for creating RESTful APIs. This post shows you how to make a simple Docker Flask SQLite API. This post builds on the excellent Flask API Lesson on The Programming Historian. If you just want to dive straight into a Docker Flask SQLite API example you… Read More »
Vagrant is a tool for managing virtual machines. By combining vagrant with git (and shared git repositories like github or bitbucket) it is possible to share machine configurations. This post explores how using vagrant with git works and some possible challenges with collaborating with vagrant machines. Sharing Virtual Machines Sharing virtual machine images can be… Read More »
Vagrant is a command line tool for managing virtual machines. Vagrant commands are generally quite sensible and often a guess at what the command might be gives the rights of others you answer, but there are rather a lot of them. This post picks out some basic vagrant commands and works through the installation and… Read More »
Turning a sequence of images into a video can be useful for creating stop-frame movies, scientific animations, and simple slide shows. This post shows you how you can use the free command line tool ffmpeg to create a video from images. ffmpeg is a powerful, versatile command line tool which is widely used for other… Read More »