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Managed OwnCloud
Editor’s note (2026): The Managed OwnCloud product mentioned in this post has since evolved into a broader managed enterprise cloud offering under Open Edge Cloud. For current managed OpenCloud and infrastructure services, see Open Edge Cloud’s Managed OpenCloud. Managed OwnCloud Infinite Scale Introducing Managed OwnCloud, a cutting-edge hosted and managed solution built on OwnCloud Infinite…
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Use OpenStack CLI with Cloud Configuration file (SAML federation)
Editor’s note (2026): This approach still works, but for production federated access I now recommend application credentials backed by a Keycloak IdP – which is the default on Open Edge Cloud. 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…
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OpenStack CLI with Federated Identity: Application Credentials (2026) + SAML 2.0 ECP (2018)
2026 Update: Federated OpenStack CLI, the Modern Way This post dates from 2018, when SAML 2.0 ECP was the cleanest answer for scripted OpenStack authentication against a federated identity provider. Eight years later, the landscape has shifted. Here’s what I recommend today, drawn from running federated access on production OpenStack clouds including Open Edge Cloud.…
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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!
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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UI project I’ve published a new Github project that demonstrates how to build applications and services against the unpublished Robinhood Finance API.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 have some sort of reason or project that they find interesting enough to bestow you with such…
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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
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Intelligent cloud scaling with Cloudify
Quick and dirty tips on using Cloudify nested scaling groups and policies for better, more intelligent, service scaling.
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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 sidebar there and, instead, wanted a full-width…
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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 issue when installing VLC from Fedora 24…
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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 it anywhere in their instructions. Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/hipchat.repo [atlassian-hipchat]…