AlexanderZeitler

Mongoose toObject and toJSON transform behavior with sub-documents
Mongoose supports two Schema options to transform Objects after querying MongoDb: toObject and toJSON. After playing around with toObject and toJSON transforms with sub-documents, I observed the behaviors described as follows.
Deploying Ubuntu Mate Desktop as a developer environment in a Azure VM
While boring looking XFCE installation on Ubuntu Server is shown everywhere, this post shows you how to get a nice Mate Desktop on Ubuntu in Azure up and running and RDP into it.
Deploying Ubuntu Mate Desktop as a developer environment in AWS EC2
If you don't want to find out the solution by running over 40 Ubuntu installations with several desktop environments on AWS, read on.
Debugging mocha tests in a Docker container using Visual Studio Code
In a current Node.js / Docker customer project I had to debug some mocha tests because Docker containers use UTC and you know: that timezone stuff...
Debugging mocha tests with Visual Studio Code when Node.js is installed using nvm
In my development environments, I never install Node.j using `apt-get` but use nvm instead to be able to use multiple Node.js versions in parallel. This requires different settings in VS Code for debugging mocha tests.