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Linode + DEV Hackathon Help Thread
Tags: linodehackathon, linode, linux, help
Published: 2023-01-24 20:24:46

---
title: Linode + DEV Hackathon Help Thread
published: true
description: Comment here if you need any help during the Linode + DEV Hackathon!
tags: linodehackathon, Linode, linux, help 
cover_image: https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/45zwwh6nn11roi35oq4w.jpg
---

**If you're participating in the [Linode + DEV hackathon](https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-linode-dev-hackathon-377p) and you need some help with your submission, you've come to the right place!** 

If you have any questions about how this contest works (_ex: due dates, how to post your submission, picking a category, etc._) the DEV team will be happy to assist you.

> **If you are running into issues or get stuck when it comes to using Linode, please leave those questions here as well.**

Comment below if you need asynchronous assistance with the Linode x DEV Hackathon ❤️ 

_P.S. If you'd like to share an update on the progress you're making on your project or if you'd like to connect with other participants, please do so in the [community discussion thread](https://dev.to/devteam/community-discussion-thread-linode-dev-hackathon-59k1)!_
Building an API with .NET
Tags: dotnet, webdev, beginners, tutorial
Published: 2023-01-24 20:16:27

Building an API with .NET is a straightforward process that can be accomplished with a few simple steps. In this blog, we will go over how to create a basic .NET API using ASP.NET Core, which is the most popular and recommended framework for building web APIs on .NET.

* Step 1: Install the .NET SDK
To get started, you will need to have the .NET SDK (Software Development Kit) installed on your machine. You can download the SDK from the official .NET website. Once the SDK is installed, you should have access to the dotnet command-line tool, which you can use to create, build, and run .NET applications.

* Step 2: Create a new API project
To create a new API project, open the command prompt and navigate to the directory where you want to create your project. Then run the following command:


```
dotnet new webapi -n MyApi
```

This command will create a new API project called "MyApi" using the webapi template. The template will create the basic structure of an API, including a startup file, a controller, and a launchSettings.json file.

* Step 3: Add a new controller
A controller is responsible for handling incoming HTTP requests and returning the appropriate response. To add a new controller, create a new file in the Controllers folder called "ValuesController.cs" and add the following code:

```
[ApiController]
[Route("[controller]")]
public class ValuesController : ControllerBase
{
    // GET api/values
    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult<IEnumerable<string>> Get()
    {
        return new string[] { "value1", "value2" };
    }
}
```
This code defines a new controller called "ValuesController" that handles GET requests to the "api/values" endpoint. The controller returns an array of strings as the response.

* Step 4: Build and run the API
To build and run the API, navigate to the project directory in the command prompt and run the following command:

```
dotnet run
```
This command will build and run the API, and you should see the message "Now listening on: http://localhost:5000" in the command prompt.

* Step 5: Test the API
To test the API, open a web browser and navigate to "http://localhost:5000/api/values". You should see the array of strings returned by the controller.

Congratulations, you have now created a basic .NET API! Of course, this is just the beginning, and you can add more functionality and features to your API as needed. Some popular libraries and frameworks that you can use to extend your API include:

Entity Framework Core for database access
AutoMapper for mapping between models and entities
Swagger for generating API documentation
MediatR for handling CQRS pattern
This is just a basic example to help you get started with .NET API development. With .NET's rich set of tools and libraries, the possibilities for building robust and scalable APIs are endless.
Main concepts Python Technical Interview 📚
Tags: codenewbie, python, webdev, beginners
Published: 2023-01-24 19:51:47

**Here are some of the main concepts you should be familiar with when preparing for a Python technical interview:**

1. Data types: Understand the different data types in Python, such as integers, strings, lists, tuples, dictionaries, and sets, and how to use them effectively.

2. Control flow: Understand how to use if-else statements, for and while loops, and other control flow structures to control the flow of your program.

3. Functions: Understand how to define and call functions, how to pass arguments, and how to return values.

4. OOP: Understand the concepts of object-oriented programming in Python, including classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation.

5. Modules and packages: Understand how to import and use modules and packages, and how to create your own modules and packages.

6. Exception handling: Understand how to handle exceptions in Python, including try-except blocks and raising exceptions.

7. File I/O: Understand how to read and write files in Python, including text and binary files.

8. Algorithms and data structures: Understand common algorithms and data structures, such as sorting algorithms, searching algorithms, and data structures like linked lists, stacks, queues, and trees.

9. Regular expressions: Understand how to use regular expressions to search and manipulate strings.
10. Advanced topics: Understand some of the more advanced topics in Python, such as decorators, generators, and metaclasses.

10. Python libraries: Familiarize yourself with some of the most popular Python libraries, such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Scikit-learn for data science and analysis, as well as Flask, Django or Pyramid for web development.

Additionally, you should practice solving coding challenges and puzzles, and try to implement real-world projects to improve your problem-solving skills.
Also it's important to have a good understanding of best practices, design patterns and software development principles, especially in the context of Python.


👨🏻‍💻 Resources:

1. https://www.youtube.com/@CodingEntrepreneurs
2. https://www.youtube.com/@DennisIvy
3. https://www.youtube.com/user/CalebTheVideoMaker2
Habinator - Coaching platform for health coaches
Tags: coach
Published: 2023-01-24 19:19:36

Habinator is an all-in-one online coaching platform for professional health coaches to create, manage, track & measure their client's lifestyle change programs.

Our goal is to provide coaches with all the tools they need to support their clients' behavioral change process and help them achieve their health goals. 

Registered coaches can interact in the community, whereas Habinator app users can book coaches from the marketplace.

Many coaches have already moved into the modern age and are enjoying the great benefits of our digital coaching platform.

Join our community today!

[https://habinator.com](https://habinator.com)
Ruby, Generating Seeds with Excel
Published: 2023-01-24 19:14:23

While working on the backend of a e-commerce clone application, my group had all of the product data stored in a excel file. It seemed tedious to go through and create the products again in the seeds.rb. There had to be a simpler way, and there is. This was our process. Yours may be different based on the version of Ruby you have, but the core concepts should be the same.

To start, make a new csv directory within the db directory.

Next, we need to make sure that the spreadsheet is formatted properly. The data needs to be stored in an actual table. 

![Excel](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/isx0ltktzenz60fxdqzy.jpg)

If your table has headers, make sure that the "My table has headers" box is checked. Ours included headers.

From here, save your file as CSV format to the csv directory you created earlier. Its important to note that each table needs to be its own file. You can not have multiple sheets tabs. So, if you have multiple tables, they need to be saved as individual csv files.

If you haven't generated your tables or models, now is a good time. Make sure your columns names match up with your csv columns names. If not, you will end up with your data in the wrong columns.  

Now we can start coding in the seeds.rb file.

At the top of the file we need to include:
```
require "csv"
```
This provides the built in CSV class methods.

---

Next, we need to tell Ruby to read the content of the file and set that to a variable we can use:
```
csv_text = File.read('./db/csv/Products.csv')
```

---

Now, we need to parse the file:
```
csv_text = File.read('./db/csv/Products.csv')
csv = CSV.parse(csv_text, 
    :headers => true, 
    :header_converters => :symbol
)
```
Here we included the read file variable we just set, set headers to true, and converted the headers to symbols.

---

The next step is to iterate through the data and create a new product for each row.
```
csv_text = File.read('./db/csv/Products.csv')
csv = CSV.parse(csv_text, 
    :headers => true, 
    :header_converters => :symbol
)
csv.each do |row|
    Product.create!(row.to_hash)
end
```
Here we used .each as the iterator and told Ruby that for each row we wanted to call Product.create. We also included the bang operator "!" to raise an exception if the data does not match the data types that were defined in the Product table. Finally, we called the to_hash method on each row, to ensure that each row is returned as a hash.

You can repeat this process for each of your csv files.
One Quality that will make you a 10x Remote Software Engineer
Tags: webdev, javascript, productivity, beginners
Published: 2023-01-24 19:05:52

Since we all heard the announcement, GitHub now has 100M developers using it, which makes the competition to a whole new level. Being a Software Engineer, especially remote requires a lot of things but one thing that is the most important and that is “Ownership”. Only that can lead them to become Senior Software Engineers, I will deconstruct the whole concept in very simple words.


When you own things, like your car, your MacBook, or the suit you bought, you take care of them, you do your best to maintain them and keep them in a secure place. The same is valid if you built a product that you love, it can be an open-source project, so you will keep updating pull requests, fixing performance issues, and updating security. If you own a car, to make it work you add gas to it, keep it clean, and do it all by yourself because you own it. If there is any issue with the engine, you take it to the mechanic by yourself, this is the concept of Ownership. You must hold yourself accountable for whatever work you put into that and improve it every day.

My Senior SWE Manager _Hassaan Pasha_ told me that it struck me:

_Build and ship something you’re proud to show to anyone_ and that only explains a lot of things.

Ownership is the same as holding accountability to yourself, about how you communicate, write good quality code, and ship code that you’re proud to show the world. By taking ownership you distinguish yourself from all other employees and portray your leadership quality which gets the job done.

 
By just holding yourself accountable, you can take your career to another level.
Cap XIII: Diletantismo tecnológico, El libro negro del programador. 💻
Tags: books, spanish, productivity, programming
Published: 2023-01-24 19:00:00

## **Diletantismo tecnológico**

---

**Diletante**: Persona que tiene por afición varias disciplinas del conocimiento de manera aficionada y sin profundizar en los conceptos.

---

* Hoy en dia es un hecho que las tecnologías avanzan de maner acelerada y es sencillo convertirse en un profesional obsoleto.

* Las herramientas y tecnologías que usamos hoy en día posiblemente no se usen más en unos 5 años.

* Si te empeñas en no aprender cosas nuevas, tarde o temprano estarás fuera del mercado laboral.

* O de adaptas o mueres.

* Por no mantenernos actualizados podemos perder muchas oportunidades laborales.

* Justamente por este avance tecnológico tan veloz es que no se ven muchos desarrolladores experimentados de más de 45 años, esto es una pena por que se necesitan programadores con toda esa experiencia y recorrido.

* El desarrollo de software se confunde con este maratón de estar al día en lo último de lo último, sin haber profundizado.

* Las tecnologías que aprendemos no son un fin, sino un medio para aportar valor y resolver problemas del mundo real.

* La principal medida del progreso es el software que funciona.

* No hay valor en dedicar mucho tiempo a leer blogs y ser curiosos por aca y por allá sin profundizar en nada.

* Nuestro mayor esfuerzo como desarrolladores de software debe ser resolver problemas.

* Solo tendremos éxito si sabemos emplear cualquier tecnología para resolver un fin mayor y darte un aporte a nuestro cliente.

* No podemos enfocarnos solo en aprender tecnologías si no profundizamos en ellas y las usamos para resolver problemas.

* Una diferencia competitiva que nos ayuda en el mundo laboral es mostrar a nuestros clientes o empleadores los problemas que resolvemos y dejar de presumir tanto los lenguajes de programación que sabemos o los frameworks que dominamos.

* ¡Resultados ante todo! 

---

Te dejo el link gratuito de [*El libro negro de programador*](https://underpost.net/ir/pdf/cy3/el-libro-negro-del-programador.pdf) por si te intesa leerlo, o dale click a la imagen:


[![libro](https://www.digitalskillsinstitute.com/assets/media/books/5541eba31b4b42b5bb021dc77c70d658-480.jpg)](https://underpost.net/ir/pdf/cy3/el-libro-negro-del-programador.pdf)
7 Techniques for optimizing JavaScript performance and reducing load times
Tags: javascript, beginners, productivity, performance
Published: 2023-01-24 18:52:47

There are several techniques you can use to optimize the performance of your JavaScript code and reduce load times. Here are a few

1. Minification: This is the process of removing unnecessary characters from your code (such as whitespace, comments, and newlines) to reduce its file size. Minifying your code can help it load faster, especially on slow connections.

2. Bundling: This is the process of combining multiple JavaScript files into a single file. By reducing the number of requests the browser needs to make to load your code, bundling can help improve load times.

3. Lazy loading: This is a technique where you only load the JavaScript that is needed for the current view or user action. This can help improve the initial load time of your website, as well as the performance of the website as the user interacts with it.

4. Code splitting: Similar to lazy loading, it's a technique where you can split your code into multiple chunks and load them only when needed. This way, your initial load time will be faster, and users won't need to download the entire codebase to run your website.

5. Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN): CDN is a network of servers that are distributed around the world to deliver content to users based on their geographic location. By hosting your JavaScript on a CDN, you can reduce the distance that the data has to travel, and therefore, improve load times.

6. Using a JavaScript framework/library: Popular frameworks and libraries like React, Angular, and Vue.js can help you write better-structured and more maintainable code, as well as provide performance optimizations.

7. Properly Optimizing Images: Optimizing images is not directly related to JavaScript, but it's essential to mention it, as images can take a significant amount of time to load. Optimizing images by compressing or resizing them can greatly improve load times for your website.
How to Write And Run C and C++ Code in Visual Studio Code
Tags: vscode, cpp, c
Published: 2023-01-24 18:42:08

For a pretty long time, I was hearing many complaints from a lot of people that they are failing to run their C/C++ codes directly from the Visual Studio Code.

So, I thought about writing a full-fledged article on this on freeCodeCamp.

You need to check something sequentially. I am providing those step by step here:

1. You have to ensure that you have correctly installed the compiler for the C/C++ program whether you are using a Windows, Linux or Mac based operating system.
2. You have to check whether your compiler is working correctly or not. If you are a Windows user, then you also need to ensure that you have added the compiler's directory to the environment path variables. For this, make sure to check this article.
{% embed https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-install-c-and-cpp-compiler-on-windows/ %}
3. I can pretty much assume that you have already ensured that your machine has the compiler installed and configured successfully if that passes the previous point. Now, it is time to install and configure the [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) properly. For this, simply head over to this article.
{% embed https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-write-and-run-c-cpp-code-on-visual-studio-code/ %}

That's it! 😀

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Get past ChatGPT's capacity: Signup in 30 seconds
Tags: chatgpt, ai, signup, openai
Published: 2023-01-24 18:41:45

Creating an account on ChatGPT, a powerful language model developed by OpenAI, can be an exciting and rewarding experience for many users. However, some users may encounter difficulties when trying to create an account due to a message that states "ChatGPT is at capacity right now".



![ChatGPT is at capacity right now](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/hwlot9g8mivenuswsi1r.jpg)

This message appears when the demand for the service exceeds the model's current capacity. This can happen due to a variety of reasons such as high traffic, system maintenance, or other technical issues.

**Solution**

Don't worry! A simple solution to accessing the authentication page for signup or sign-in on ChatGPT when faced with the message "ChatGPT is at capacity right now" is to try reloading the site several times. From my own experience, I have found that reloading the site a few times can help users gain access to the authentication page. This solution may work effectively for other users who are facing the same issue.


![ChatGPT Sign up page](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/ght4hbtw45ds9t03h1i1.jpg)

You might be wondering how reloading can fix this issue! Well, ChatGPT is a large language model that processes a high volume of requests simultaneously. When the demand for the service exceeds the model's current capacity, it can lead to delays in processing new requests, such as creating an account, resulting in the message 'ChatGPT is at capacity right now'. Reloading the site several times may help users access the authentication page.

There are a lot of solutions available on the internet, but many of them require a lot more time and effort for a simple signup process. Also, If you're already logged in before and your session has expired and you're facing the same problem, you can try the same method and then log in again or use this URL [https://chat.openai.com/auth/login](https://chat.openai.com/auth/login) to log in directly. If those suggested method does not work, you can try other solutions available on the internet.


I do not want to write a long blog post, as the solution takes 30 seconds and it will need 30 minutes to read. If you need any help with ChatGPT or web development for your small online business or startup, I am available to assist you for free. Feel free to reach out to me via my LinkedIn profile [click here](https://www.linkedin.com/in/md-raihan-1028a1201). As I am currently unemployed and focused on skill development, I would love to take on similar projects. Keep in mind that the "ChatGPT is at capacity right now" message is temporary, and the service will be available soon. Be patient and enjoy the process of learning new things.
Git Show Command Cheat Sheet
Tags: beginners, programming, git, github
Published: 2023-01-24 18:35:07

A Beginner's Guide for the 'git show' command

Git is a powerful version control system that allows developers to track and manage changes to their code. One of the most useful Git commands is `git show`, which allows you to view the details of a specific commit. In this post, we'll explore the `git show` command and provide a cheat sheet of some of the most commonly used options.

## 1. Basic Usage

The basic usage of the git show command is to display the details of a specific commit. You can use the following syntax to view the details of a commit:


```
git show <commit-hash>
```

This command will display the commit message, the author, the date, and the changes made in the commit.

## 2. Showing Changes

One of the most useful options of the git show command is the ability to view the changes made in a specific commit. You can use the following syntax to view the changes made in a commit:

```
git show <commit-hash> --stat
```

This command will display a summary of the changes made in the commit, including the number of files changed and the number of lines added or removed.

## 3. Showing Diffs

Another useful option of the git show command is the ability to view the actual diffs (differences) made in a specific commit. You can use the following syntax to view the diffs made in a commit:

```
git show <commit-hash> --patch
```
This command will display the actual diffs made in the commit, including the lines added and removed.

## 4. Showing File Changes

You can also use the git show command to view the changes made to a specific file in a specific commit. You can use the following syntax to view the changes made to a file:

```
git show <commit-hash> <file-path>
```
This command will display the changes made to the specified file in the specified commit.

## 5. Showing Branch

you can also use git show command to see the latest commit on a branch, you can use the following syntax

```
git show <branch-name>
```

## Conclusion:

The `git show` command is a powerful Git command that allows you to view the details of a specific commit. It's a useful tool for understanding the changes made to your code and for debugging. The basic usage, showing changes, showing diffs, showing file changes, and showing branch are some of the most commonly used options of the git show command. By mastering these options, you can quickly and easily view the details of specific commits in your Git repository.