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Continue reading →: VSTS – New User Email Address
I just created a new Visual Studio Team Services account and wanted to add some colleagues to the account. However, my colleagues do not have Outlook or Hotmail user accounts. What to do? After some quick research, it turns out that because this new VSTS account is not backed by Azure…
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Continue reading →: Oracle Coherence – VisualVM Plugin
If you are doing any work with Oracle Coherence clusters and caches, you MUST download the VisualVM Coherence plugin. It gives a great view of the cluster, members, state, and statistics. Information and download – https://blogs.oracle.com/oraclecoherence/new:-visualvm-plugin-for-coherence-released-through-the-coherence-incubator For a full view of the cluster, you will want to connect to the “monitor”…
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Continue reading →: Gradle – Flat Repo (flatdir)
What the heck is a Flat Dir repository in Gradle? Well, its basically a directory(s) that contain a set of files that can be used to resolve dependencies. Note, Gradle will assume no transitive dependencies with this type of repo. A good use of this repository type may be within a…
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Continue reading →: Ansible Automates – Minneapolis
Mark your calendars – August 3rd, 2017 – Ansible Automated Minneapolis
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Continue reading →: Jenkins Redundancy like a Boss
Here is one way to add some data redundancy to your Jenkins instance. The solution below won’t auto recover, but the data itself should be safe if your active Jenkins master fails. The following are some key points not really mentioned in the beautiful Google Docs created chart above! A dedicated file…
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Continue reading →: Ansible and Local Execution
How can I execute an Ansible task on the local Ansible controller server? The key is to use the “delegate_to” or “local_action” key words on your task. So lets say we want to use Ansible to monitor an end point and perform some action if the response is not equal…
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Continue reading →: Visual Studio Version Numbers
The Visual Studio version numbers and product naming convention has always been a little confusing to me. Example: I have Visual Studio 2015 installed on my PC and the installation folder path is “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe”. The table below shows the Product Name and corresponding Version number.…
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Continue reading →: VSTS – GIT – JENKINS
Lets say I am in need of a private Git repo for a small 3 – 5 person team…. Where should I look? For this blog post I looked at GitHub and VSTS. Below is the pricing for both. VSTS – https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/pricing/ GitHub – https://github.com/pricing From the links above, you…
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Continue reading →: Cygwin and PIP Package Missing
I installed Cygwin today and forgot to install the PIP package for Python 2.7. Looking online, I found that you could install the PIP package by re-running the Cygwin installation .exe. However, re-running the .exe took a LOT longer than I expected. It is 100% faster downloading and executing get-pip.py from the…
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Continue reading →: Flask-RESTful – Basic Authentication
I’m continuing to develop the REST API that will be used with the API.AI Webhook. I decided that some sort of authentication is needed. I played around with adding Basic Authentication to my API as API.AI supports this. Below are the steps I took to get my authentication setup using Flask. (Recommend reading Flask-HTTPAuth…
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