Developer General Knowledge Base

In this article, I am going to guide you through the steps I take to set up my MacBook for software development. I will discuss some of the settings I change in macOS, as well as the software development tools I install and use every day for Python ...

There are many authentication methods used by RESTful APIs, but we can generally categorize them into two types based on how credentials are presented in the programming code. Basic authentication – credentials are presented using plain textToken-ba...

  Skilled network engineers, developers, system admins, etc. use Unix/Linux commands line tools/utilities such as …. cat, ls, man, ps, etc.. Most of these were originally written for Unix or Unix-like operating systems, have been around for decades...

    XML, JSON and YAML are the most popular data serialization languages. This means we use them to represent data structures and values, which enables data storage, transfer and distribution, often for use in configurations.   XML stands for “eXte...

  pyenv for Managing Python Versions and Environments   The Python language has many working versions. At the time of this writing, Python has progressed all the way from version 1.0 in 1994 to version 3.10 and beyond today. Often, different projec...

What are bashrc and zshrc?   The .bashrc file (for Linux or other Bash environments) and the .zshrc files (for MacOS or other Zsh environments) are both files on your local system used to create aliases, which are like keyboard shortcuts for your sh...

If you want to deploy an application where you need a wide range of team interaction, you often face a slow process and a high risk of lack of standardization. Imagine a web shop company with name xyz about to deploy a new application. So, the compan...

Join us on Wednesday for a DevNet webinar on the following topics:Introduction to Git - download slides and listen to replayDate: Wed, August 16, 2017Join Ashley Roach (Principal Engineer and API/ Cloud Evangelist for Cisco's developer relations team...

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What is AngelHack?AngelHack is a series of global hackathons that happen frequently in major cities. They ignite the passion of the world’s most vibrant community of code creators + change makers to invent the new and make change happen, together.The...

What is CiscoStartUp?When I first joined this training session, I first thought I’d be working with different Startup companies solving problems and forming new ideas. I was close, but this wasn’t it. Another person asked me if CiscoStartup is where ...