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Why would you need a headless CMS (Content Management System)? Very good point!  If you have ever used WordPress, Webflow, Wix etc. then you know what a CMS is - a platform to allow you to create a website/blog or whatever it might be.  That is great and works for a lot of people however, what if you want to have a slick visual CMS experience in your own website where you host it wherever as just...

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When the cloud isn't enough ;) Azure ARC lets you manage off-cloud infrastructure within the same familiar Azure environment, along with governance, security and visibility from one unified viewpoint. Azure Arc – Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Management and Solution (microsoft.com) Azure Arc for Developers (microsoft.com)   Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Well, it has been a couple of weeks or so since the last JFM mostly as I have been "lost in the machine" so to speak! So much A.I. stuff happening, good or bad? who knows!  I can understand the concerns, but right now I am feeling the A.I explosion is providing some useful assistance within various tools/landscapes. Today, I am looking into a few interesting ones: Microsoft Copilot - who wants to...

Yet another low code development environment, but this one has some interesting twists! Retool is a low code development environment which has a browser based IDE to allow you to build internal apps very quickly!  you can connect to lots of database systems out there, including SAP HANA which is interesting from my day-to-day role :) You can also connect to a wide variety of API's including GraphQ...

Well, the name explains it! we are all a little lazy sometimes ;) Introducing Lazy Docker - essentially a way to manage your docker environment from a command line with a command line UI (not unlike the days of MS-DOS!).  This is a good thing BTW!  it is nice to have a clean, easy to use and quick way to manage your docker environment. Sent in this time by my good friend Tim Abel .  Tim also has a...

Well, nothing like a light bit of listening!  Web 3.0?  Over hyped/Over used term? perhaps, but there are nuggets in them thar hype-fields! Way too much to discuss in 5 (or even 6) mins!  but I try... Certainly, the world of decentralised "whatever" is here and has been some time.  I might delve a little deeper into some of the subjects of Web 3.0 including Blockchain generally, dApps of course, a...

AI is taking over!  well, maybe not quite, but it is and will continue to be embedded in our day-to-day lives. For this episode, I have been exploring Motion (links below).  An app to use AI to organise your life.  Uses the concept of "time blocking" (link below) and essentially lets you pull in all of your calendars (personal and business) as well as a variety of todo apps, and keeps them in sync...

An interesting journey working with Docker over the years.  Docker is great for containerising your apps, but what happens when you start to have a lot of containers and/or you want fail-over support? Well, even though Kubernetes (also known as K8S for short!) isn't the only orchestration tool out there, it is fairly common and a "go to" for a lot of devs. Setting up and managing K8S can be a hand...

This time around we have some VPN and Tunnel info.  Lots of VPN solutions out there, but I wanted to highlight one that I have been using (successfully!) which has a really nice free version too! The VPN (but also has tunneling capabilities and more) is TailScale  Also, Cloudflare, which is a massive cloud based set of services everything from network management/firewall/caching and goodness knows...

Well now, who would have thought a guest episode!  My very good friend Tim Abell (podcast " software should be free ") has kindly created a Just Five Mins about asdf.. not just the handy set of keys on your keyboard!  Use asdf to "Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool".  I could have done with this a week or two back! Even though poor old Tim was suffering a bit, his audio still...

Well, more databases! but this one has a few tricks up its sleave! In the realm of things like Firebase , Supabase etc. Pocketbase aims to offer a similar feature set but is open source and deploys as one file...  Pocketbase doesn't offer any hosting like Firebase/Supabase, so you can use this within your own environment/cloud hosted server.  Can be used within Linux/Windows/Mac (both x64 and ARM)...

Nearly at the end of 2022... LTS! Reason to think carefully about using an LTS (long term support) version of software! Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Yeah, you bet!  We all know the AI world is changing things for us if we like it or not. ChatGPT is coming... and I don't think we can stop it!  we can embrace it in the right way of course. Old news now, but worth a listen honest! From a developers perspective, check this video out: (320) ChatGPT can write better code than me - YouTube Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/su...

Okay, where to start!  Well, couple of episodes back I talked about how Docker are previewing Docker with WASM (Web Assembly).  So WASM became popular from Blazor the Microsoft tech to essentially bring compiled .NET code into the browser (and lots of other technologies can be used with WASM of course!). Seems WASM, and WASI, are moving from just browser based to other worlds including the server/...

A very cool, probably mis-understood, nugget this time around! Natively calling REST based (actually HTTP based, since you can call GraphQL too!) within Azure SQL database!   I have done something similar years ago using OLE style SQL coding, but this felt a little clunky and goodness knows what the performance issues might have been! This is native.. this is Azure SQL Database so, given the manag...

Well can you believe I had an episode about Hasura all the way back 2+ years ago! even though it was Episode 14 ;) This is a revisit.  In my case, Hasura didn't have full MS-SQL support back then, which is where I live mostly, but it does now! along with MongoDB, Postgres to name just a few. Worth checking out: Instant GraphQL APIs on your data | Built-in Authz & Caching (hasura.io) Get full acces...

Well, Docker isn't new of course but it has evolved over the years.  Now we are seeing Docker WASM - Web Assembly.  But why does this matter? Take a listen! Further information here: Why Containers and WebAssembly Work Well Together - Docker Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

Who needs an ARMy of ARM chips? !! This episode is all about "project Volterra" or Windows Dev Kit 2023 - an ARM based hardware offering from Microsoft that packs a punch! Seems everything is going ARM based these days, so why not join in! More info here: Available today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 aka Project Volterra - Windows Developer Blog Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/s...

For those who are older enough to remember, this could be counter for this: (84) Steve Ballmer DEVELOPERS - YouTube   and yes kids, this is how Microsoft attracted.. you guessed it, "developers" :) So, as part of my attending "Microsoft Anonymous" sessions, this episode is all about LINUX, LINUX, LINUX!  well, as much as I can pack into about 5 minutes! I do like the feeling of being able to devel...

Wow, well you wait two years for an episode and two come along! This time it is Tauri - a cross platform development stack built on Rust with an incredible small deployment footprint.  Supports HTML/CSS/JS type technologies (Angular, Vue, React and whatever too!).   Provides an installable desktop bundle for the main OS's with lots of lovely features for you to check out. Main Tauri Website Get fu...

Well, it has only taken 2 years to create a new Episode! This one is getting very rusty... SurrealDB is written in Rust but, although that is cool anyway, it is what SurrealDB has to offer.. take a listen!   Link to SurrealDB: https://www.surrealdb.com Get full access to Just Five Mins! at www.justfivemins.com/subscribe

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