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Getting Contract Logs from IBM Blockchain Platform

Getting Contract Logs from IBM Blockchain Platform

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The Problem: with IBM Blockchain Platform running in a Kubernetes cluster how do you get the logs to find out what happened with your contract? Setup This is command line stuff, so make sure that you have the kubectl command installed and it’s able to access the K8S Cluster. Or alternatively use the ‘web cli’.. your choice. Access either from the ‘Actions…’ menu on the cluster summary page. The steps What is the k8s namespace? Within K8S, each IBP instance…

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Getting setup for development (CentOS)

Getting setup for development (CentOS)

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At work we’ll often do ‘group testing’ sessions or ‘internal hackathons’. What struck me about the last one was that setting up your development environment can surprisingly tricky, especailly if it’s for a style of development or langage you don’t generally use. TL;DR: gist of commands What are we developing for? The setup we are going for here, is a Node.js and Java environment using VSCode – with a view to using the IBM Blockchain Platform extension for writing applications…

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Windows, Virtual Box, and CentOS

Windows, Virtual Box, and CentOS

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My personal preference for developing is to use Windows 10 as my laptops main OS, but then run VirtualBox with Linux. Succiently this is because I like to have office style applications available, and as a general ‘just do stuff’ Windows does the job well Should something go wrong developing, it’s quite easy to through the VM away and start again. Or if you want to test a certain machine configuration. To date I’ve used Ubuntu as the Linux OS;…

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Make multi-persona demos fun and interactive!

Make multi-persona demos fun and interactive!

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Last week an idea occurred to me – we have several demos that can be shown at conferences to customers etc. But a central feature is there have multiple web apps (each can shown in one tab of a browser). How could it be possible to make the transition from one persona to another more obvious – and interactive?? Demo-hats was born! Here’s the readme from the git repo. Why would I use this? You have a web application or…

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