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Managed OwnCloud
Introducing Managed OwnCloud, a cutting-edge hosted and managed solution built on OwnCloud Infinite Scale, designed to meet the needs of businesses seeking a secure, high-performance, and seamlessly integrated file sharing platform. Our Managed OwnCloud offering...
Use OpenStack CLI with Cloud Configuration file (SAML federation)
Recently, I needed to build a project for OpenStack that required that I not know the end-user's authentication method. I had used the clouds.yaml (cloud configuration file) approach before, so I thought I'd give it a go and test it out with a few...
Use OpenStack CLI with SAML 2.0 ECP
If you're using SAML 2.0 Enhanced Client or Proxy (ECP) with OpenStack Keystone, it may not be obvious how to use the mainstream OpenStack client to authenticate. The example RC file below will hopefully shed some light on how to get started....
Remove GoDaddy’s WordPress plugin
When you create a managed WordPress instance with GoDaddy, they gift you a few “system plugins” that can’t be easily removed. So, let’s remove them!
Robinhood alternate web interface
Robinhood UI project I've published a new Github project that demonstrates how to build applications and services against the unpublished Robinhood Finance API. Unfortunately, Robinhood doesn't make their API information publicly available (you have to request it and...
Integrating ServiceNow with Thycotic Secret Server
Tutorial showing how to integrate ServiceNow with Thycotic Secret Server (REST API and SOAP API) using server-side JavaScript
Intelligent cloud scaling with Cloudify
Quick and dirty tips on using Cloudify nested scaling groups and policies for better, more intelligent, service scaling.
Change default Divi template on all posts using WordPress database
After migrating a large website and setting up Elegant Theme's Divi theme, I found that all of the migrated posts had a default template set of "right sidebar". The customer was fine with there being no modification to the posts except that they did not want the right...
Fedora 24 fix – could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “xcb”
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" This error message is because either the XCB QT5 module can't be found, or the module can't be loaded because one of its library dependencies is missing. I ran into this...
Atlassian Hipchat on Fedora 24
Since Atlassian must find it too difficult to provide instructions for any other Linux distro besides Ubuntu / Debian, I thought I'd jot down the instructions here for Red Hat based distributions. They do provide a YUM / DNF repository to use, but they fail to mention...