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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.

Marathon training with Trello

Posted on July 27, 2015 by erictummers

My training for Eindhoven is on schedule. For this I’m using RunInfo (dutch) and Trello. The schedule from RunInfo can be printed or saved to PDF, but as a developer I prefer a more interactive solution. I created a board … Continue reading →

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Week roundup

Posted on July 24, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Visual Studio 2015 released post by Scott Hanselman Rhino Service Bus, the freeware alternative to nservicebus Vortex, the kickstarter robot for the family Image courtesy of kanate / FreeDigitalPhotos.net What are your best reads this … Continue reading →

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Repro metabase COM Exceptions

Posted on July 22, 2015 by erictummers

Our project uses IIS to host custom web applications. We received an issue: when creating a web application some COM Exception is logged. To reproduce the issue we created a console application that connects to IIS metabase. The Find method … Continue reading →

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Customize Office365 installation

Posted on July 20, 2015 by erictummers

We’re using Office 365 to support Choose Your Own Device. On my Windows laptop I’ve installed it. There is no option to remove unneeded programs after the installation. To save some room (like on a SSD) you can configure which … Continue reading →

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Week roundup

Posted on July 17, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Shim for System.Environment.MachineName on msdn; you’ll need to edit the fakes configuration file Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event on June 20th Docker Visual Studio Extension [ video] on Azure friday Image courtesy of kanate … Continue reading →

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