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Migrating from AWS to Azure using Azure Site Recovery
With Azure Site Recovery you can migrate VMs from Physical Servers to Azure. This opens up a variety of useful use cases such as Migrating instances from AWS to Azure Having a Azure as a failover site for AWS instances. ...
Sync Git master with fork
I recently had to fork a branch in github and then I had to figure out how to keep the changes from the master in sync with the fork branch I had made. Turns out it is really simple. ...
Netflix IMDB Chrome Extension
I created a simple Chrome extension today to make things a little easier when browsing Netflix. I always find myself having to go to IMDB.com to go and check out a movie’s rating when I am looking for something to watch on Netflix. With this extension I bring that rating right into Netflix, meaning one less click for me. ...
Not Just Code Monkeys
Martin Fowler’s presention on building healthy, social environments where software development can thrive is interesting. ...
Planning Poker Made Easy
Often I work with remotely distributed teams where some (or all) of the team members are remote and attend meetings virtually. The other day, during a planning games session, a few of the team members were remote and so, in order to facilitate the planning poker sessions, we looked for a web site that would provide the option for the team to all vote within a virtual room. ...
Panel Jumping On Collapse
I added a bootstrap panel to a webpage with collapsing sections. The requirement was for each panel to remain open until it was specifically closed. This worked fine, however, I noticed that on closing the panel there would appear to be a jump effect which did not look nice at all. ...
Remove Git Repo Configuration and History
Step 1: Remove all history rm -rf .git Step 2: Reconstruct the Git repository git init git add . git commit -m "Initial commit" Step 3: push to GitHub. git remote add origin <github-uri> git push -u --force origin master
BREACH Attack
Back in August 2013, at the Blackhat conference, security researchers Angelo Prado, Neal Harris and Yoel Gluck announced BREACH. ...
SSL and Web Security
It is worth noting that SSL is only one piece of your web security. It offers a great way to protect your data as it flows between the client and the server as well as providing a check to ensure the server is who you think it is but it is only a piece of the security puzzle. Often people will think just by having SSL enabled their site is now secure but this is just not the case. ...