tech.agilitynerd

Here are my slides on Using Gestures in Angular 2 with TypeScript for a lightning talk that I gave at the December Northwest Chicago JavaScript meetup.

I converted the Reveal.js slides checkout to use the Angular 2 CLI. That let me include two small Angular 2 components within the …

I was working on a slideshow about Using Gestures in Angular 2 Components for a lightning talk at the December Northwest Chicago JavaScript meetup and I found the code sections just weren't large enough. So I threw together a little JavaScript to add "+" and "-" buttons next to each code section …

I was working on a simple single page website for calculating dog agility jump heights and was really missing the tool chain I normally use in Flask and Django web sites for bundling, compressing, and versioning CSS and JS files and a mechanism for putting the bundled/versioned file names …

I was looking to use LiveReload while developing using Pelican and I came across this nice simple solution by Merlijn van Deen.

In my use case I also wanted to watch the pelicanconf.py file and themes directory for changes and then regenerate the output and reload the browser. Lastly …

I always want my websites to be secure and fast. HTTP/2 is the latest enhancement to the HTTP protocol that can provide significant performance improvements:

The primary goals for HTTP/2 are to reduce latency by enabling full request and response multiplexing, minimize protocol overhead via efficient compression of …

My agilitycourses.com website is served by nginx proxying to gunicorn running my Django application. I'll be adding user accounts soon so I wanted to convert the site to be more secure by using HTTPS encryption. Also Google has announced it will likely prefer sites using HTTPS.

The site is …

When I first started the agilitynerd blog in 2004 I had my Blosxom blogging CGI script running via Apache. Later on I moved all my sites to nginx or took advantage of nginx's caching features to have it act as a proxy in front of Apache. I finally decided to …

I've been a big fan of SVG images for many years for their light weight and resolution independence. I started playing with them back when most browsers needed a plugin to render them; which kept me from using them in web sites. Within the past few years SVG has become …

I've been using Pelican for this blog for almost three years with source and output stored in a GitHub repository. The output files were then checked out and hosted as static content behind an NGINX web server on my VPS. Since I set that up GitHub introduced GitHub Pages with …

On my agilitycourses.com I had been modeling three types of dog agility courses using an abstract base class Course with three child classes: Box, StarBox, and DoubleBox. This created three tables in the database prepended with the Django application name box: box_box, box_starbox, and box_doublebox. I needed to add …