Install Git on Windows
If you use two-factor authentication see Create a Personal Access Token to use it as password in the command line tools at Switching to 2-factor authentication in GitHub Configure Git for Windows Enable Page Up and Page Down Set up Git Bash to…
Install Chocolatey
The Chocolatey home page is at https://chocolatey.org/ Install Chocolatey Navigate to the Chocolatey website at https://chocolatey.org/ and follow the latest instructions. At the time of writing the instructions were Using the Command prompt Open a…
The instance ID ‘…’ does not exist
When you launch an EC2 instance in AWS and the Chef script is trying to set tags on the instance you may get the error message: The instance ID ‘…’ does not exist It can happen when you launch the instance in one AWS account, and…
Determine the Windows PowerShell version
To reliably display the version of the Windows PowerShell engine Open a PowerShell command window, Execute the command, $PSVersionTable.PSVersion PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion Major Minor Build Revision —– …
How to create a slideshow in Drupal 7
To create a slideshow in Drupal 7 Create a Slideshow content Log into Drupal as administrator In the top menu select Content and Add content On the Add Content page select Slideshow On the Create Slideshow page enter the title of the page, and populate…
How to install a Drupal module
To install a Drupal module Download the Drupal module from the www.drupal.org website, Unzip the module, With an FTP client upload the module directory to sites/all/modules/contrib Log into the Drupal site as administrator, In the menu select Modules,…
How to create a Docker repository in Artifactory
Artifactory supports multiple repository types, Docker is one of them. To create a new Docker repository in Artifactory Set the Custom Base URL of the Artifactory server From the Artifactory documentation at…
How to transfer an Atlassian Confluence wiki space to another server
Confluence is one of the most popular Wikis with a great user interface. To export and transfer an Atlassian Confluence wiki to another server Log into the Atlassian Confluence wiki as an administrator, In the lower left corner click the gear icon and…
Atom text editor configuration
Configure Atom Turn off auto-indent on paste to stop Atom reformatting your code. In the Atom menu select Preferences On the left side select Editor Uncheck Auto Indent On Paste Check Show Indent Guide Set Tab Type to soft to place 2 spaces when you…
Deploy a WAR file of a Java web application on the Apache Tomcat web server
There are two ways to deploy a WAR file of a Java web application on the Apache Tomcat web server Using the command line Copy the WAR file into the webapps folder of the Tomcat installation directory, Make sure the CATALINA_HOME environment variable…