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Alex Vernacchia

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Rackspace to GCP

Since 2011 I've used Rackspace for personal projects. I had my own VPS and used it to host websites and test out tech I was interested in.This was well before infrastructure automation

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    Alex Vernacchia
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javascript

Refreshing byvernacchia.com

I finally updated my personal website, byvernacchia.com. It's definitely been a long time coming.

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    Alex Vernacchia
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javascript

Using new features of nodejs

I recently worked on a small project where I had free reign to use whatever technology I wanted. It was an internal project, so as long as I chose a language people knew

  • Alex Vernacchia
    Alex Vernacchia
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centos

So you want to E2E test with headless chrome on CentOS

This is not the place to have a discussion about what I call E2E testing and how it may differ to what you think E2E testing encompasses. Over the past few months I've

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    Alex Vernacchia
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chef

Octopus SSH Tentacle Auto-Registration (via Chef)

Our small team here in London is going through a transformation, albeit a slow one. One from a centralised monolith to smaller services that make up something bigger, from process as a gateway

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    Alex Vernacchia
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javascript

2016 In A Nutshell

2016 came and went. It's time to take a look back, no matter how quick it is, at the projects I created this year. Well, the public ones... As always, hit me up

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    Alex Vernacchia
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Old Blog

Old blog is located at http://babble.byvernacchia.com

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    Alex Vernacchia
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javascript

The Paket [Node] Module

Last week, I transitioned one of the repos at work to use Paket in lieu of Nuget. While this post is not about why or which is better, I have to say I'm

  • Alex Vernacchia
    Alex Vernacchia
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javascript

Life is Full of Pivots

Pivot 1 Before starting my "pro" career at Salesforce, formerly ExactTarget, I was primarily doing PHP. I had very limited JS skills but a decent programming foundation. jQuery was my go

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    Alex Vernacchia
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Promises Alongside Callbacks

So, you've made a module/library/framework. It works and is easy to maintain but uses callbacks exclusively. With the arrival of Promises, and huge adoption, isn’t it time that your module

  • Alex Vernacchia
    Alex Vernacchia
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javascript

FuelUX RTL Wizard

So, you're using bootstrap, and you want a few extra features/components that don't come standard. You've scoured the web for these and likely stumbled upon FuelUX or UI Bootstrap (by the Angular

  • Alex Vernacchia
    Alex Vernacchia
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js

My First React(ion)

I've been checking out ReactJS over the past few days, and to say the least I'm impressed. I started by going through Facebook's tutorials, but they only seemed to scratch the surface. Suffice

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    Alex Vernacchia
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ghost

Another Coding Website?

Alas, I have setup this new blog for me to discuss some of my findings in "the code." While some of you know I have another blog that aims to do

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    Alex Vernacchia
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