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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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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UI project I’ve published a new Github project that demonstrates how to build applications and services against the unpublished Robinhood Finance API.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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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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ServiceNow plugin for Cloudify overview
Zefflin Systems recently announced their new, shiny Cloudify Plugin for ServiceNow which integrates Application Automation with IT Service Management
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Red Hat Cloudforms Python API library
The Cloudforms API client library is a Python library used for interacting with Cloudforms (CFME) and ManageIQ (MIQ) cloud management appliances via their built-in RESTful interface.
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WordPress 4.2.4 Security and Maintenance Released
The WordPress 4.2.4 release addresses six issues, including 3 XSS vulnerabilities and a potential SQL injection that could be used to compromise a site.