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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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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]…
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Simple Mobile meets the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (APN)
If you’re a Simple Mobile subscriber and the proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge, you’ve probably run into issues getting either 3G+ data service or MMS working. This guide attempts to solve some of these issues.
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WordPress – Change All Page Layouts Using The Database
Learn how to bulk update all of your WordPress posts to a new Elegant Themes Page Layout using the database
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HubSpot Forms (REST) API checkbox values
HubSpot doesn’t adequately explain how to pass in boolean values through its Forms API. I recently had to work with this API and wrote down some hints.