Archives of Beginner level blog articles

The beginner tag on a blog post means the text is suitable for beginners in that specific field. Posts that are under beginner tag are easy to read for everybody with intermediate English knowledge. You should also have some basic IT knowledge, but it is not necessary.

Summer project for students

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-02T13:19:39+02:00June 21st, 2021|Tags: Beginner, Coding, Students|

Academic / school year is almost over, and while some of you may have a few more subjects to finish, summer vacation is starting. Having fun and getting your mind off the school is expected, but we believe that you should spend, at least a part of, your free time expanding your knowledge.

Introduction to Docker

Rodiger DevOps2021-06-25T14:04:25+02:00April 20th, 2021|Tags: Automation, Beginner|

Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. Docker enables you to separate your applications from your infrastructure so you can deliver software quickly. With Docker, you can manage your infrastructure in the same ways you manage your applications. By taking advantage of Docker’s methodologies for shipping, testing, and deploying code quickly, you can significantly reduce the delay between writing code and running it in production.

Windows Task Scheduler

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T13:58:05+02:00December 18th, 2020|Tags: Automation, Beginner|

The Task Scheduler enables you to automatically perform routine tasks on a chosen computer. Task Scheduler does this by monitoring whatever criteria you choose (referred to as triggers) and then executing the tasks when those criteria are met.

Introduction to NodeJS

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-01T11:29:34+02:00December 16th, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Coding|

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. As an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications. NodeJS relies on NPM packages and their dependencies. There is nearly a milion packages available to use with Node Package Manager.

Introduction to Bash

Rodiger DevOps2021-04-09T11:59:49+02:00December 3rd, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Shell|

Bash stands for "Bourne Again Shell" and was developed by Brian Fox in 1989. It's called "Bourne Again" because it replaces the popular Bourne Shell which is "born again" through Bash. Bash is a standard shell for Linux distributions.

Introduction to PowerShell

Rodiger DevOps2021-06-30T08:26:13+02:00November 27th, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Shell|

PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language. Unlike most shells, which accept and return text, PowerShell is built on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), and accepts and returns .NET objects.

What is automation

Rodiger DevOps2021-06-18T13:09:37+02:00November 2nd, 2020|Tags: Automation, Beginner|

Automation can be defined as a technology concerned with performing a process by means of programmed commands combined with automatic feedback control to ensure proper execution of the instructions. The resulting system is capable of operating without human intervention.

Azure bot registration

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-01T12:44:15+02:00October 29th, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Chatbot|

Bot channel registration, in Azure Portal, is where you register your bot and connect your bot to desired channels. Channels are really just your chat platforms like MS Teams, Slack or Skype.

Build a bot with Bot Framework SDK

Rodiger DevOps2021-06-18T12:16:43+02:00October 27th, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Chatbot|

Bot Framework is a collection of SDK's for bot development in various languages mentioned in the previous article. It provides tools to build, test, deploy and manage bots. The SDK acronym stands for „Software Development Kid“ and it is exactly that, a kit that supplies you with libraries, documentation, guides and code samples. Bot framework SDK is basicly all you need to start building your bot.

What are ChatBots

Rodiger DevOps2021-07-01T09:18:44+02:00October 23rd, 2020|Tags: Beginner, Chatbot|

ChatBots are applications that are built in one of several available programming languages and are hosted on a remote server. You can interact with them through your chatting platform such as Slack, MS Teams, Mattermost, etc.