A guide for using CMake Generators to support other IDEs.

Some times we might be working in a team, and that team has members who prefer to use different IDEs or who develop on different platforms. In these cases we can leverage CMake’s generators.
This is a short guide on using a generator for Xcode and adding a second test file to break up testing.

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A barebones C++ library template using CMake and Google Test

Objective

This is a BAREBONES C++ template with Google Test support using CMake. It is setup to allow for the building of a static library using TDD principles; but could be adapted for building a small program. This is in no way the ideal solution.

This template was created to allow for programming under Mac OS. But the files should work under other systems.

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Install & Configure Certbot

Docker & Let's Encrypt

I have been playing with a few things of late. Mostly related to moving my site off GitHub and using my own domain. As part of that I am just toying with Let’s Encrypt. I have been doing this during my trial period with Linode.
Today I will document how I set up Let’s Encrypt using DNS as the preferred Challenge.

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Rust: Add an Example Program to your Library Crate

Recently I decided that I might actually publish my little rust crate. To that end I started looking into some of the things that are needed and what can be done. I have published a perl module in the past. And as a rule for myself, I like to provide an example program that uses a module or library. That is what I will look at today.

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rust  crate  lib