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Windows Servers - Network Share Testing

Telnet Is a friendly app that is on almost all Linux machines and many windows machines that you can use for some basic connectivity testing. telnet ip port Examples - 10.0.0.1 suppose is the server Test for RDP enabled telnet 10.0.0.1 3389 If telnet

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PgHero

Postgres is a powerful database that can run anything it seems, but to kepp it healthy may not be as obvious and that is where PgHero can step in and give you a nice dashboard [https://pghero.dokkuapp.com/datakick] to help review and monitor your database instance. This should

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Kibana

This is a visualization tool [https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana] that can be run as a docker container and hooked to your preferred datasource for increased visibility and information. When running a SaaS it is incredibly useful for visualizing time interval windows easily.

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Stress Fractures

I am taking off from running for 12 weeks because the stress fractures in my right foot which I have been experiencing for the past couple of years in my right foot are not getting better. Every time before I would rest a few weeks to a month and then

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AWS EC2 Base Images

When you need to find the appropriate Ubuntu base image for AWS EC2 machines https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/

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JetBrains Rider

Excellent IDE, this link [https://stackify.com/visual-studio-rider/] goes over the major points, will point out that the big difference to me between Rider and Visual Studio is the debugger immediate window where you can evaluate code snippets while debugging. While Rider can evaluate expressions it is not as natural

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SSH Keys & Git

SSH Key validation system to avoid the glut of passwords that y

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Postman

Postman [https://www.getpostman.com/] has been an indispensable tool I have been using for doing one off testing on the SaaS API I have been developing side benefits it provides are conversion to cURL [https://curl.haxx.se/] statements and synchronization of saved requests when you create an account

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Debugging applications through logs

If you have test code and it is not sufficient then improve it immediately. If you have monitoring and telemetry streams use those or improve them right now. If you have a legacy application with nothing, but logs then welcome to the special HELL of attempting to debug an issue

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Letter - Promote Tester To Software Engineer

I wrote this as an email to the owner arguing for a talented underappreciated person to be promoted from software test to software engineer (Joanna) because it was the right thing to do rather than hire a new person. Names have been changed to for anonymity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was thinking

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GitHub Tips

Currently this is the current process I am using for GitHub. * Fork the original repository from GitHub website. * Open the GitHub Desktop client. * Clone the newly forked repository with the GitHub Desktop client * Open the the folder with git shell Fetch all the changes on the main branch that have

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MS SQL Server - Full Text Search Index

Wanted to be able to search across multiple text columns at first thought about difficult joins and views, but then remembered that almost every modern database system has this builtin as default functionality and since I am having to do MS SQL Server databases for the most part this is

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Sql Table Function - Memorable Alias Generator

Wanted to create a User Defined Function in MS SQL server that would generate memorable aliases for users to use. First point is that a UDF function does not allow you to create temp tables within it or use side effecting functions like NEWID() which was not fun, but you

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ServiceStack: OrmLite SqlExpression Tip

When creating complicated clauses for queries use the underlying IDBconnection with the template type of the underlying source, but make sure to use the db.From() and then append the Where clauses afterwards in a series to generate the appropriate parameterized and checked clause. Once the SqlExpression is built you

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Push notifications template

Created this file using the Push.js to allow simple push notifications in JavaScript like this Notify.info({ title: this.title, message: "No changes to undo." }); with an import like this import * as Notify from "../utilities/notify"; That references this file with the following contents. import

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TurfJS Presentation

Gave this presentation to Seattle MapTime - Introduction to TurfJS on 6/14/2017 TurfJS [https://siliconrob.github.io/github-web/turfjs/intro_turfjs.pdf] - Simple, fast, modular geospatial library written in JavaScript.

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DotNetFringe 2017 - Recap

Point 1: "The Company" Technology systems and use is drastically behind and isolated Why is this? Fundamentally I think it is because we rely on active memories of project members to backfill things that other companies would do normally need to do because they are forced to when

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Working with react-refetch

Solid project for simplifying the your react interactions with a server API data models react-refetch import React from "react"; import ReactDom from "react-dom"; import { connect, PromiseState } from "react-refetch"; import { globalStyles } from "../../styles"; import { Urls } from "../../redux/serviceurls"; import * as Notify

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Static and Functional Programming

* Reduces cognitive load\n* Makes testing straightforward and clear* * Easier to build * Known resources can be versioned * Excellent post on this https://platform.sh/blog/containers-are-the-new-static-binaries * This part is so true and earned from many issues that come with experience. * Static typing is great because you really want the error

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Glitch API test tool

Created a glitch remixable project for use in turfjs presentation to be given. TurfJS - Glitch [https://blue-basement.glitch.me/] Did some simple cleanup and a few modifications to the empty test API. Easy tool to learn NodeJS programming with many assumed features to help you get started smoothly and

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NodeJS - Hapi & Postgres

Working through writing prototype of NodeJS Web API using Hapijs and Postgres as the backing store. Compared to Visual Studio the process of development is so much lighter and easier. Secondly as it is light and fluid the tests are being written quickly and validating cleanly. Choosing hapijs seems to

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Url Rewriting Apache/Nginx

Had to learn about url rewrite engines for both **Apache **and **Nginx **to test a url rewrite for these servers Needed something like this http://server2:port/blah/zaps/#/pow?map=theMap By inputting something like this http://server/site/theMap Apache config that works <VirtualHost :80> ServerName

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No estimates

Estimation is so ingrained in software development that it is just assumed that you will provide estimates for everything you do. First point estimates are never treated as they should be i.e. guesses when provided. They are instead treated as promises and many times guarantees. This abuse of the

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TeamCity Docker Upgrade

First download and setup docker on target server. My current setup is Ubuntu 17.04 virtual machine run through VMWare Setup docker to run automatically on startup docker run -it --restart=always --name teamcity-server-instance -v /opt/teamcity/data:/data/teamcity_server/datadir -v /opt/teamcity/logs:/opt/teamcity/logs -p

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Increase Oracle Tablespace

This problem comes up when running Oracle XE Edition which is intentionally crippled to fuck with you. Hate Oracle databases so much. Find out the current tablespaces raw files. You will need rights, but since this is Oracle XE you should be able to grant or log in as system