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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.

Crashing unit tests in Visual Studio

Posted on April 1, 2015 by erictummers

Today I got my unit tests to crash in Visual Studio. Right after some refactoring the tests stopped working and the output window contained the following message: The active Test Run was aborted because the execution process exited unexpectedly. To … Continue reading →

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Renew Certificate with SHA256

Posted on March 30, 2015 by erictummers

Just like my renewal in 2014 I acted on receiving an email about my certificates expiring. The free certificate’s default Secure Hash Algorithm used to be of type SHA1. Microsoft is deprecating SHA1. Also Google posted about sunsetting SHA1. Browsers … Continue reading →

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Week roundup

Posted on March 27, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Azure App Service announcement by Scott. Also see the video’s on azure friday about the topic. The API metadata solution from Swagger is class leading. The Azure Api APP uses this too. Web-enabled S3 bucket … Continue reading →

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Excel conditional formatting calendar

Posted on March 25, 2015 by erictummers

Excel has some magic formatting options. With conditional formatting I’ve created my own little calendar with highlighted current day / month / date. Full sample for download below this post. The screenshot is from March 16, but you’ve already seen … Continue reading →

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SDN event March 2015

Posted on March 23, 2015 by erictummers

The SDN – Software Development Network – is a special interest group for dutch developers. Four times a year they organise an event where people present and talk about their passion. As a member of the SDN you are aware … Continue reading →

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