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This post will show how to install node.js and npm from github repositories. Then typescript will be installed.

First thing clone repo from node.js

git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git 

Then, as per instructions to build run ./configure and the make -j4

Prerequisites are python, gcc and make.

This will create node command. What is not clear is how npm is inside this distro.

npm is the package manager and it is only a js file run by node. This is included in node distribution,

but there is also a npm github site. What I found is that only documentation is built with npm git repository.

git clone https://github.com/npm/cli.gi

However, I used this command to install npm:

curl -L https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sh

Once I built node binary I copied to my ~/bin folder and then to my path.

npm uses 2 locations to set up libraries. Global and local. I’m new to node so I understood that local is project specific. In the other side, global it means only one path.

For instance, from my own build, global is set to:

In this prefix main modules should be installed:

Finally to install typescript use npm to install it. In this sample, I’m using npm from GitHub Repo. This is pointing to different global prefix.

This is weird. I think I’ll use npm version I installed with curl.

In an additional note, npm from Git repo did not work at all. I had to change npm script to fix path issue with npm_cli.js. Once I did that change npm worked:

I changed these lines from npm file:

18 ###NPM_CLI_JS="$basedir/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js"
19 NPM_CLI_JS="$basedir/npm-cli.js

Anyway, tsc is ready to run typescript files.

I was looking for a setup to test my OAuth2 Knowledge and I found excellent videos and articles in internet. Specifically I followed this one:

Now, trying to create my own test I went to my Google Cloud Platform Console and create my Oauth2 Client Id and Consent Screen. Please, note that GCP offers different options to add a Client Id. I selected the one for Web Application Client.

OAuth2 needs consent screen

Now, lets test with OAuth2 debug tool: State is not in screenshot but I set it to “anti-forgery”. See success screen.

Continuation …

And it worked!

look at

Then use code to get token. I used Postman:

After I upgraded my Alienware to Windows Developers Preview I noticed AWCC was not loading thermal and overclock options.

Issue is narrowed down to XTUOCDriverService. This is not able to start and it is linked to Intel Tuning Utility. The driver should be used by Alienware OC Controls for overcloking.

However after I reinstalled Intel Tuning Utility this is not fixing issue. I moved temporally these files:

I reinstalled everything even XTUOCDriverService. However issue is not fixed.

I noticed this issue after I moved my laptop to Windows Insider Preview Program

I think I need to report this to Microsoft.

Download Go from Git repo:

Label your go version with your signature:

Build Go Dev

SetUp GOROOT

SetUp GOPATH

Install code-insiders

Install dlv Extension

Install go Extension

Start coding with GO!

I was wondering how extensions for Visual Studio Code are created. Googling I found this.

I followed instructions there and created my first demo extension.

Step number 1 is to install with npm :

npm install -g yo generator-code

Then, generate boilerplate code

yo code

You wil see:

Check the dialog:

Then, check typescript generated code and setup in package.json

Check the simple message on the bottom

You can even debug the typescript code.

I watched recent You Tube video: C++ Development with Visual Studio Code with Julia Reid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqXrYfSKJXk

In the video, Julia shows how to use Visual Studio Code to build and even debug SuperTux2 video game:

SuperTux2 https://www.supertux.org/

It was interesting how to build this nice game with Visual Studio Code. I have used it for demo samples as I have used Visual Studio Community Edition to build more complex projects.

I followed the Video and I was surprised what easy was to build and generate such game:

This is my own build:

However, it was not that clear in Julia´s video how to sort out all the issues faced when trying to build SuperTux from scratch.

So, before being successful to get SuperTux running as in screenshot I had to troubleshoot.

This post details what I did to get same results that Julia.

What is assumed is that you already installed Visual Studio Code:

https://code.visualstudio.com/download

Visual Studio Build Tools:

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/

cmake Visual Studio Extension:

Then you clone SuperTux repository and open the project with Visual Studio Code.

Keep in mind that you need to use –recurse option or submodule option. Look in SuperTux wiki to clone correctly repoi.

At this part the video skips a lot of explanation.

Julia explains how to set the active key to Visual Studio Tools 2019 – amd64

She also explains how to setup build variant to Cmake: Debug Ready

At this point the build config is done but if you try to follow this sequence you will see this kind of error:

This error means that all third party libraries used by SuperTux are not installed in your system. In Julia’s case, she already installed those dependencies with vcpkg. So at this point is important to mention that we need to install vcpkg!

Clone vcpkg repo from:

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git

Go to git folder and run:

bootstrap-vcpkg.bat 

to build vcpkg.exe.

Then run:

vcpkg integrate install

Note the message displayed:

At this point, setup cmake configuration to point cmake to vcpkg. Open cmake extension settings from Visual Studio Code and setup settings.json. Notice that path is the same that the one displayed by vcpkg integrate install.

{
   "cmake.configureSettings": {
      "CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE": "C:/GitHub/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake",
      "VCPKG_BUILD": "ON"
   },
   "cmake.ctestPath": "",     
   "cmake.copyCompileCommands": "",     
   "cmake.configureOnOpen": false,     
   "cmake.generator": "" 
}

Then, to enable tab completion:

vcpkg integrate powershell

Then install manually with vcpkg the dependencies. These are mentioned in video and also posted in INSTALL.md file:

“sdl2”, “sdl2-image”, “openal-soft”, “curl”, “libogg”, “libvorbis”, “freetype”, “glew”, “boost-date-time”, “boost-filesystem”, “boost-format”, “boost-locale”, “boost-system”, “physfs”

vcpkg install --triplet windows-64 sdl2

vcpkg will install by default 32 bits packages. By using the –triplet parameter you will install 64 bits version of packages instead of 32 bits.

Every time you install a package, click on the build gear button to generate cmake build file. You will get new error mentioning missing library/package. Once you generate successfully the build the tool will try to build SuperTux. Then you will get error that .lib files are missing

Those libs are provided by same project. Build them manually one by one. Select the target:

Then build every single target. lib files will be built.

Finally select SuperTux2 target. This will build exe file.

In my case, when trying to run or debug nothing happened. I launched manually exe file generated in build folder an error message showed that 2 dlls were not found:

squirrel.dll and sqstdlib.dll

Copy 2 dlls into build debug folder.

Finally, I wanted to try vcpkg.json manifest file support. I only found that feature included in latest roadmap:

Vcpkg 2020.04 Update and Product Roadmap

UPDATE:

I downloaded latest version 0.6.2 from git and then I followed my own steps. I got a different error when running cmake configure. Specifically with physfs_lib package

This time was more difficult to troubleshoot this issue. At the end I commented this line (940) from CMakeLists.txt:

This was not elegant but at the end allowed me to run cmake configure.

After that, the BUILD ALL option worked correctly and I did not have to create every submodule one by one.

Hope this helps.

CDK is the Container Developer Toolkit from Red Hat. It allows to setup RHEL based OpenShift.

The guide I followed is at:

https://developers.redhat.com/products/cdk/overview

The guide does not mention that you can install CDK in Fedora as it does specifically mention that supports installation in RHEL, macOS and Windows.

For this you will need to meet the following prerequisites:

• KVM with libvirtd service or
• VirtualBox (In my case, libvirtd was broken so I tested with Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.4)
• RedHat Developer Subscription

The first step is to download minishift version for OpenShift: cdk-3.11.0-1-minishift-linux-amd64

Rename this file to minishift and then run:

minishift setup-cdk 

Then with the start option.

minishift start --memory 12G

Launch console

minishift console

Then you will be able to log into cluster

The catalog looks impressive to me.

Please, note that:

CDK installs a single node OpenShift cluster. The version deployed is 3.11.157, this versions uses Kubernetes 1.11.

The latest version for Openshift is 4.3 and the latest version for Kubernetes is 1.17. (As March 2020). Openshift 4.3, however, uses Kubernetes 1.16.Apparently there is no CDK for OpenShift 4.x. It looks to me that the way to install a Development Environment is by using Red Hat Code Ready Containers.

https://www.openshift.com/try

I want to describe the challenges one have to face when learning kubernetes. It turns out that is not that easy to describe what kubernetes is.

After digging a little bit the internet, I wanted to try kubernetes. The number of options available is outrageous. By chance, I opted to use Red Hat Open Container Kit. I learned this is a streamlined version of OpenShift which is the enterprise version of kubernetes from redhat.

Red Hat Open Container also is a streamlined version for minishift.

minishift will create a VM with kubernetes and docker setup for you. You have two options to setup minishift with virtualization. Either you use VirtualBox driver or kvm/libvirt. I wanted to use kvm/libvirt in my laptop with Fedora 31. I realized libvirtd is broken in my fedora 31 setup. So I was forced to use Virtual Box driver.

I also noticed this version of CDK only supports openshift 3 while RH is already in Openshift v4.

What I found confusing is the use of docker in CDK. While RedHat is pushing the use of cri-o and podman instead of docker. Add to the confusion the okd project.

Anyway I think is a little bit oudated the use of CDK, but let’s give it a try as it looks as a good start to learn about kubernetes.

I found this link which helped me to understand better:

https://cloudowski.com/articles/10-differences-between-openshift-and-kubernetes/

So the first step is to download cdk-3.11.0-1-minishift-linux-amd64

If you want to get started quickly with Google Protocol Buffers in the Go Programming Language lets follow the guide from

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/gotutorial

First we download from GitHub protocolbuf project:

git clone https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git

Then we setup our Go project.

mkdir -p ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples/

From git repo, locate examples folder

cd ~/GIT/protobuf/examples

Then copy the source code to our Go project:

cp Makefile ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples
cp *go ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples
cp *proto ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples

Setup the GOHOME variable

export GOPATH=~/protobuf

Then we install protobuf protoc compiler: Download protoc from following location then unzip in your preferred folder

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases

For instance I unzip into my protoc folder:

Update your path to locate protoc

export PATH=~/protoc/bin:$PATH

Then we install go plugin

go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go

Update your path to locate protoc-gen-go. (Installed in previous step by go get)

export PATH=~/protobuf/bin:$PATH

This is the go project setup, now lets build the tutorial.

Go to examples folder

cd ~/protobuf/src/github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/examples
make clean
make go

Running the sample

After running mpsyt for a while, I started to face an issue with the latest branch:

The following error was coming up when trying to search:

Error fetching data. Possible network issue.
Youtube Error 403: The request cannot be completed because you have exceeded your quota.

Then, looking into mpsyt github repo you can find there the solution:

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube/wiki/Troubleshooting

You will need to create from Google Cloud Platform key to access YouTube v3 API.

Go to GCP console, from your project create an API key for YouTube V3:

Once you generate API v3, (I selected one for cli), I updated mpsyt client with the new key:

Voila, now I’m able to use mpsyt downloder again to access my favorite stuff: