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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.…
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Continue reading →: Docker Hub – Build Hooks
I tried out the Docker Hub post_push hook script today with my automated build and it works great. This link has all the details around more advanced Docker Hub build scripting. What I tried using the post_push script for was to tag my mainline build (latest) with another specific tag…
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Continue reading →: Docker Goodies – Frequent Commands
Noting some of the usual Docker commands I run for future reference… Start Docker daemon = systemctl start docker View running Docker images = docker ps View all images on the server = docker images or docker image ls Remove all images on the server (dangling and unused) = docker…
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Continue reading →: Docker Build Error – Temporary Error (try again later)
When building a new Docker image from Alpine 3.6 (RUN apk –update add –virtual build-dependencies gcc …), I encountered the following errors: fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/main: temporary error (try again later) WARNING: Ignoring APKINDEX.84815163.tar.gz: No such file or directory fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz ERROR: http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/community: temporary error (try again later) WARNING: Ignoring…