#tutorial
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How to build cross-platform mobile apps using nothing more than a JSON markup (medium.freecodecamp.com)
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Beginning tvOS Development with TVML Tutorial - Ray Wenderlich (www.raywenderlich.com)
In this tutorial, you’ll make your first tvOS app using TVML – Apple’s Television Markup Language. Believe it or not, you’ll use JavaScript to manage your app’s logic, and create TVML templates to present your UI.
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Configuring dnsmasq to serve my own domain name zone - pfigue (pfigue.github.io)
dnsmasq is a small DNS server easy to configure.
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Setting a custom json 503 error page in nginx with proper http and content-type headers
When running nginx as the front-end web service for your API, you may need to put up a "maintenance" page and send back "HTTP 503 Service Unavailable" for all incoming HTTP requests. For some reason, all the existing docs I found online were either too complicated or did not handle this properly. Here is a simple configuration block that will do the following:
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HTTP 503 Service Unavailable - Set the content-type to
application/json - Send a JSON file that you create as the response body
http { server { listen 80; server_name example.com; root /usr/local/nginx/html; location / { try_files $uri =503; } error_page 503 /maintenance.json; } }In the directory specified by
root, create amaintenance.jsonfile containing something like the following:{ "code": 503, "error": "temporarily_unavailable", "error_description": "Sorry, the service is temporarily unavailable" }After reloading nginx (something like
/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s reload) all future requests to this host will return a response like below:HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable Server: nginx/1.4.7 Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:07:35 GMT Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 128 Connection: keep-alive { "code": 503, "error": "temporarily_unavailable", "error_description": "Sorry, the service is temporarily unavailable" } - Return a header of
