Author Archives: erictummers

About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Sniff localhost

Posted on June 23, 2012 by erictummers

My WCF services are using basic authentication over https. To prove this is a safe combination I wanted to sniff the trafic between client and host. Problem is a tool like Wireshark cannot sniff localhost. You’ll find good explanation why … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged client, host, loopback, Network, packet sniffer, rawcap, trafice, WCF, wireshark | 1 Comment

Azure as test environment

Posted on June 20, 2012 by erictummers

My current project involves the mono framework. It is crossplatform and runs on windows, linux and macos. The lack of diskspace (and time) for setting up a linux machine and the lack of money to buy a new macbook pro … Continue reading →

Posted in Test | Tagged azure, centos, Cloud, install, Linux, Machine, mono, ssh, TAAS, Test, Testing, Testing as a service, virtual machine, Windows, yum | Leave a comment

Wifi router setup

Posted on June 19, 2012 by erictummers

Recently I added an Airport Express to my Wifi network. Just following the wizard got me a working setup but poor Wifi coverage with different ip ranges from my Airport Express and Time Capsule. Last weekend I fixed it by … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged airport express, apple, dhcp, ip address, Network, network printer, time capsule, vnc | Leave a comment

Windows Azure SDK 1.6 update

Posted on June 1, 2012 by erictummers

Today I updated Windows Azure SDK to the latest 1.6 from November 2011. The update was from SDK 1.4 which I uninstalled before installing 1.6. After the update my unittests failed. Short solution below. Commandline to set environment variable: Regedit … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged azure, Azure SDK, commandline, environment variable, Reflector, regedit, SDK 1.6, unittest, Windows Azure, Windows Azure Emulator | Leave a comment

Windows Azure SDK better with wrappers

Posted on May 25, 2012 by erictummers

Since Windows Azure SDK 1.2 back in 2010 I’m trying to get my unittests up and running. I posted about it on the Microsoft forum and consulted the JustMock forum. Nobody was able to provide the solution as it looks … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged azure, decouple, fakes, interface, reference, Rhino mocks, RoleEnvironment, RoleEnvironmentHelper, singleton, telerik, Telerik JustMock, unittest, vs11, Windows Azure, windows azure sdk, wrapper | Leave a comment