 money on Susan B. Anderson’s books and online patterns than on any other designer since the competition started. By gum does she have some adorable patterns out there.
This was another tough round of voting. Kudos to all the talented designers!
This is just terrifically fun. Thank you!!
So hard to vote, because each of these patterns was my top choice in each category!
Thanks for putting together this delightful challenge; so many interesting patterns to choose from. Ultimately my final vote was more difficult than I thought it would be, since my choices continued through the madness. I’ll be checking back to see who wins! And yes, pattern purchasing will occur!
Definitely a tough vote. Loved them all. I’ve been following Susan B. Anderson for years. She’s definitely a maker of cute things.
my original (and I think only one queued *before* this all started ) favorite made it to the final go, sheep, go!
Agh! Clicked through to vote and … I can’t choose. They are all winners. Please count my not voting in this round as a vote for all of them.
All four are in my bracket!!! It was tough to choose my favorite, and I can’t wait to see which one comes out on top!Ballymount Farm is in the Southern Tablelands NSW just south of Crookwell. We are 2.5 hrs from Sydney and 1.25 hrs from Canberra.
Ballymount Farm is 450 acres of undulating country with excellent shade and water. It is ideally suited to our business.
We bought the farm in 2004 and over the last few years have re-fenced the property, constructed a stable block, large and small round yards, jumping lane, 8 horse walker, holding yards, crush, indoor dressage arena, show jump arena and some cross country jumps. We have the facilities to take foals through to young horses ready to start competition careers.
Our approach is very much a mixture of nature, nurture and matching stallions with our mares and our horses with prospective owners.
Our young horses grow and develop in good undulating country with a cool / temperate climate. They are socialised and regularly handled through this process so that we produce horses that are strong, athletic and with good temperament. We put care into matching stallions for our mares and we also want to match our horses with buyer requirements. If we get these matches right, the business will take care of itself over time.
Ballymount in Gaelic is "Baile an Airde".....a "town on high". We picked the name given our Irish links and the fact that Crookwell is 950m high in the Southern Tablelands. We hope it will bring us the usual Irish luck with our endeavours!Make the “Shaken” Italian Dressing.
Peel and cube eggplant into about 1 ” pieces. Toss with 1 teaspoon kosher salt, mix in, add to colander in the sink. Weight down with a filled tea kettle for 20 minutes.
Dry the eggplant with paper towels or a kitchen towel, place the cubes in a bowl to hold. Toss in 3 T. flour to coat.
In a medium sized bowl, add 2 large eggs and 1 T. water. Whisk well.
Place breadcrumbs, parmesan cheese, oregano, garlic and salt in another medium sized bowl, mix to combine.
Add 3 T. of olive oil to the bottom of a large rimmed metal baking tray.
Add the 1/4 of the eggplant cubes into the egg wash, then lift and add to the breadcrumb bowl, tossing the adhere.
Place them on the baking tray and repeat until all eggplant is coated.
Roast until the eggplant is golden in color.
Remove from the oven – add the remaining 1T. olive oil and toss with 2 spoons to coat well.
Return to the oven and roast until golden all over – about 25 minutes total.
Romaine Lettuce, Mozzarella cubes, cut Tomatoes and the Eggplant Cubes.
Toss with a few tablespoons of the dressing and scatter the basil all around.
Let sit a few minutes for the flavors to meld.
Use half of an averaged sized sourdough bread (Whole Foods lets you buy a half) – cut into 1″ cubes. Place the cubes on a rimmed baking pan and bake in a preheated 325 degree oven, turning once until crisp and dry, and just starting to turn golden around the edges. Cool.
Place in a food processor, and plus until you have fine crumbs.
I like to serve the mozzarella, tomatoes and eggplant at room temperature. The lettuce and the basil are best chilled.
The coated, roasted eggplant are wonderful served in a casserole over marinara sauce.
Bake with a scattering of mozzarella and parmesan cheeses, and cook through until bubbly.
Garnish with fresh basil & oregano sprigs and enjoy.
We have distinguished several projects on the version control systems market for years. One of the main ones is undoubtedly GitLab, which has undergone such a significant metamorphosis that it is now presenting itself as a platform for DevOps. Is GitLab really such a platform? What is this whole GitLab CI/CD, and why do you need it.
Every day, in the IT world, we deal with more minor or more significant breakthroughs, discoveries, etc. There are several milestones in the history of IT development that know the so-called rules of the game. It is enough to mention the containers, whether Docker or Kubernetes or the currently loved cloud, to understand the author’s meaning here. Such a change was behind the rise of the DevOps movement, which was intended to connect the world of developers with the world of admins. It is worth knowing that a DevOps specialist is currently an IT handyman – he will write the code and will take care of the operation of the server itself. Of course, I allowed myself to make a joke here, but you have to admit that there is something to it.
One of the main assumptions, as we have already established of the DevOps movement, was to connect the world of developers and administrators. In some ways, and on some levels, this has been achieved. A perfect example of this is GitLab, which has been developing its platform for production and project management for years. GitLab is currently not just a version control system but a complete software development product. This means that thanks to the provided tools, we will be able to plan, develop and analyze a given project.
GitLab’s approach to version control systems is quite different than, for example, GitHub. GitLab focuses on providing a comprehensive platform that is to help us in programming but also in planning and managing it. GitLab currently puts a lot of emphasis on the CI/CD approach, but what does it really mean? In short, you could say that this is a continuous software development method, but it would not be entirely accurate. To completely understand this approach to creating projects, we need to dig into the CI/CD acronym.
GitLab perfectly understands that the code of a given product is often changed several dozen times a day. For this reason, GitLab provides us with tools that allow us to automate, and thus, for example, with each push to the repository, execute scripts that will build and test our application. It is a methodology known since the nineties that enables multiple changes in the code with the behavior of tests and compilations of the application. According to this approach, the project should be built and tested after each commit. This not only speeds up the work on a given project but also allows you to quickly diagnose problems such as the extended build or deployment time of the application itself or errors resulting from faulty code changes. The truth is that most programmers prefer to program rather than test code again and again, and the mere possibility of automating the tests for an application or a given module is a much-liked feature.
Continuous Delivery: every time the code is changed, our application is automatically deployed. After this action, the team gets the option of publishing, and this is an option that the user needs to perform manually. This means that it is the human who finally decides whether to publish a given deployment or not.
Continuous Deployment: this is precisely the same scenario as in the above approach, i.e., after each code commit, our project is automatically deployed. However, such deployment is also followed by an automatic publication that does not require any human response in this approach.
Thanks to the use of CI/CD, we can accelerate and fully control the project and its changes. Automatic tests and deployment are features that every team will appreciate. We all knew that deploying without tests means FIRE. Of course, we must not forget that we can always roll back, and using this approach does not force us to publish automatically. In short, we get a tool that will allow us to perform continuous integration.
Check if we have available runners. We can do it by going to Settings -> CI/CD and expanding Runners. We should find at least one runner with a green circle next to it – then we are ready to go. However, if, for some reason, we do not have active runners, we have to download and install them.
Of course, we can use variables and even entire scripts that run containers in the background. In the example above, we used $GITLAB_USER_LOGIN and $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH, which are so-called predefined variables. We can also use ready-made templates here. More on variables, pipelines, and templates in