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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.

Repro metabase corruption

Posted on July 15, 2015 by erictummers

Our project uses IIS to host custom web applications. We received an issue where sometimes the application pool wouldn’t start because of an corrupt configuration. To reproduce the issue we run the software to install the web application. This way … Continue reading →

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Match assemblies and PDB files

Posted on July 13, 2015 by erictummers

Part of our build process is to save the PDB files to a file share. This way we can debug the assemblies when needed. Without the correct PDB this is not possible, even with the sources available. Visual Studio matches … Continue reading →

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Week roundup

Posted on July 10, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Xamarin test cloud included (60 mins) in every subscription Create blog header image with Canva 7 productivity tips. Use the right tool for the job. Image courtesy of kanate / FreeDigitalPhotos.net What are your best … Continue reading →

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Swapping SSD between Windows 8.1 and Mavericks

Posted on July 8, 2015 by erictummers

The diskspace on my MacBook was running out. I decided that my HP would had the give up his bigger SSD in favor of the MacBook. But now I was swapping disks from different size, different formatting and different OS. … Continue reading →

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WCF over net.tcp with server certificate: Identity check failing

Posted on July 6, 2015 by erictummers

We support using net.tcp and require our users to supply the certificate to use. The service works as long as the address and the DNS name of the certificate match. When using an other name (localhost, ip address) an MessageSecurityException … Continue reading →

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