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Continue reading →: Linux Calculator – BC
I was looking to do some quick calculations from the Linux console today and discovered ‘bc‘. Example Command: echo ‘1028 * 8’ | bc I can see how this command could be useful in a shell script!!
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Continue reading →: AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE CERTIFICATION – PASSED
Passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Released February 2018) exam today! These exams are both fun and a little stressful, but you do learn a lot while studying!!! Will post the overall score results when I get them!
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Continue reading →: AWS SAA Certification Prep – 2018
I’m getting ready to take the AWS Solutions Architect Associate 2018 test. Below are some final items I need to review before the exam. AWS FAQ’s: Redshift – https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/ AWS Config – https://aws.amazon.com/config/faq/ EBS – https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/faqs/ EC2 Types – https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ EBS – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSVolumeTypes.html ECS – https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/faqs/ ECR – https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/faqs/ S3 Perf – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/request-rate-perf-considerations.html S3 Meta – https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/building-and-maintaining-an-amazon-s3-metadata-index-without-servers/ Specific…
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Continue reading →: TFS 2018 and XAML Builds
Great news! It looks like XAML builds are supported in TFS 2018 Update 2!!! Check out this blog post for specifics! (Blog Link) For more details on VSTS\TFS agents, check out this link. (Link)
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Continue reading →: AWS DEVELOPER CERTIFICATION – PASSED
Passed the AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam! My broad study plan worked great! Below are my results. Overall Score: 96% Topic Level Scoring: 1.0 AWS Fundamentals: 100% 2.0 Designing and Developing: 100% 3.0 Deployment and Security: 87% 4.0 Debugging: 100% Next step is to attempt the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.
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Continue reading →: SSDT 2017 and Backwards Compatibility
If you are working with SSDT 2017 and creating reports for earlier versions of SSRS, please read the following article! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/tools/deployment-and-version-support-in-sql-server-data-tools-ssrs?view=sql-server-2017 I really think MS did a great job here with the “TargetServerVersion” property functionality, which allows reports to convert to previous SSRS formats during deployment.
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Continue reading →: AWS Developer Certification – My Plan
Below is my plan to obtain the AWS Developer Certification. For each of the following areas listed further down, I am trying to do the following: Read the FAQ’s Practice in the console Practice with the CLI and understand the functions\parameters Review all HTTP codes Review all defaults and limits…
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Continue reading →: Python – Tesseract – OCR – IMAGE
You can do some pretty cool things with tesseract-ocr. Using PyOCR, which is a wrapper for Tesseract, you can generate text from an image using Tesseract. Example Image: Example Output: Example Code: from wand.image import Image from PIL import Image as PI import pyocr import pyocr.builders import io import sys reload(sys)…
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Continue reading →: Virtualenvwrapper for Windows
You can speed up the use of Python Virtual Environments by using “virtualenvwrapper“. If you are working on Windows, you can use the port “virtualenvwrapper-win“. Here is an example convenience command provided by this Windows port. mkvirtualenv <project_name> Combines virtualenv, activate, and other stuff…. Check out this link for a…
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Continue reading →: AWS Consistency Models
S3 Consistency Model Puts (New record) = Read-after-write consistency model Updates and Deletes = Eventual consistency model DynamoDB Consistency Model Write = Eventual consistency model Read = Eventual consistency model Read = Optional – Strong consistency model Definitions Read-after-write consistency model = New objects should be available with out delays to clients.…