Hello all,
This is mostly a reminder for me. When publishing a new version on your Openshift environment a npm install is run by default. However you can configure it to install only the modules under dependencies in your package.json file instead of installing both dependencies and devDependencies modules.

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Hello,

I come over this little issue while downgrading my MySQL version. The fix is so concise it’s worth sharing:

systemctl unmask mysql.service
service mysql start

That’s it!

Hello all,

To solve this:

1. Run nano ~/.gemrc in your terminal.

2. Add the following line gem: -n/usr/local/bin to the empty file. (CMD + V)

3. Save (CTRL + 0) and quit (CTRL + X)

Try again installing your gem 🙂

Hello,

When dealing with fonts during the application build you can encounter many issues. In particular if you encountered this kind of errors:

Failed to decode downloaded font: ***.woff2
OTS parsing error: Failed to convert WOFF 2.0 font to SFNT
Failed to decode downloaded font: ***.woff
OTS parsing error: incorrect file size in WOFF header
Failed to decode downloaded font: ***.ttf
OTS parsing error: GSUB: table overruns end of file

That means you are having an hard time with your fonts.
First let’s try to identify the source of the problem.

1. Even if you are not using Webpack you can encounter this issue because of Git converting your font into text files. Ensure your .gitattributes files contains these binary declarations:

   *.ttf binary
   *.eot binary
   *.woff binary
   *.woff2 binary

2. If you are using Webpack then try to switch from url-loader to file-loader as explained in this article.
3. If nothing works and you are using Webpack, check-out how you are importing the fonts. In my case I have downloaded “Material Design icons” myself and imported them using:

   import '../resources/iconfont/MaterialIcons-Regular.eot';
   import '../resources/iconfont/MaterialIcons-Regular.svg';
   import '../resources/iconfont/MaterialIcons-Regular.ttf';
   import '../resources/iconfont/MaterialIcons-Regular.woff';
   import '../resources/iconfont/material-icons.css';

   However it was necessary to install the as an npm package

   npm install material-design-icons --save

   and then import them into my style.scss file using:

   @import "~material-design-icons/iconfont/material-icons.css";

   Webpack was now able to process the fonts properly.

Hope these suggestions helped since this issue can be a real pain.

Have a good day!

Hello everybody,

During this year I’ve been working at Wakanda, an ambitious start-up trying to establish his identity in the messy Javascript world.

The product that we are working on is easy to explain from the marketing point of view:

Wakanda is an open-source platform that allows you to quickly and easily create applications that can be deployed on Web and mobile. – from Wakanda.io

Ok cool, the definition is sexy enough to catch your interest but developers don’t fall for these marketing lines easily: what does Wakanda intends with “quick” and “easily”? What are the technologies in game?
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