When companies move their development over to scrum they feel they’ve found a holy grail. For a while, anyway. Then the realities of scrum and agile development creep in. The separate Operations division finds the response time they can manage and the training of developers on using repositories, CICD servers, packer, ansible, tooling, plus trying…
Continue ReadingI’m dealing with developers who work in windows and deploy to IIS. I haven’t built windows Amazon Machine Images before, so there were a couple of things to make work in packer. The first is a user data script passed over to enable and configure winRM at boot. The second was opening up the security…
Continue Reading…The language is C like, with flavorings of Python
Continue Reading…and still no real support response after 23 days. …a replacement ring was sent 15th February (updated 20190222). I want to write about how good Motiv fitness ring is. And it is. It is completely innocuous, the app is great, the information useful, the sleep measurement really quite good. But in a form factor this…
Continue ReadingI have 42 repos that are now going through a process (not THE process, because I’m pretty sure they make this up as they go…) to be released as open source. I needed to add a license comment to javascript, python, yaml, ruby, erb, haml, json, xml, bash shell, and groovy source code files….
Continue ReadingI was just handed a new revised Amazon Machine Image to employ, a fully-compliant corporate beast intended to facilitate keeping servers secure. I have extensive experience stripping builds for security purposes. The Solaris OS I worked with at Fidelity had stripped out all the graphical pieces integral to Solaris at that time, and paid SUN…
Continue ReadingThis script will be re-written in python with test coverage in the next several months. For an ad hoc tool, though, to create POC and raw methods, bash rocks.
Continue ReadingSo far git submodules are working for centralized code that repeats in use across repos and even organizations, and doesn’t change much. But one thing I run into constantly is where the code is for a repo I’ve just cloned that has a submodule, and even new repos as we re-architect some of our builds….
Continue ReadingI’m finding one of the commands I run while debugging certificate generation and tweaks is: openssl x509 -in -text This displays the complete content of a cert, allowing looking inside to verify alt_names, etc, and verify that the generated certificate then works. — doug
Continue ReadingI went looking for a plugin to do this and fell short. The Admin Bar at the top of the page on a wordpress site is useful – but the one link I always ended up diving onto the dashboard page for was the Editorial Calendar Plugin – a calendar plugin that shows and schedules…
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