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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.

Notebook FanControl custom use

Posted on February 2, 2015 by erictummers

A user called Grantig on computerbase.de created the tool Notebook FanControl. It is written in C# and uses WCF for communication with a backend service. Using JustDecompile and the information from the config I managed to build my own front-end. … Continue reading →

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Week 5 roundup

Posted on January 30, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: What’s New with ASP.NET 5 course from microsoft virtual acadamey. Been watching this during swim practice of my daughter. Post about automation on the iPhone with workflow and launch center pro. I’m triggered, what can … Continue reading →

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Add tracelistener with powershell

Posted on January 28, 2015 by erictummers

In our deployment script we automate the installation and configuration of our product. For Development and Test environment we want to log everything to a file. The powershell script below takes care of adding TextWriterTraceListener to the trace listeners. The … Continue reading →

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Xamarin iOS development

Posted on January 26, 2015 by erictummers

I’m creating an app for personal use. Here’s what I’ve learned so far. Installation of the SDK and Xamarin is easy. Just download and install. I’ve chosen the starter (free) plan. To run the app without an Apple iOS Developer … Continue reading →

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Week 4 roundup

Posted on January 23, 2015 by erictummers

Last week recap and links: Seems like LiveDocumenter has got an update to 2.0. I’ve been using it for some time to view my documentation as I was programming. Aure friday is my main source to keep up with what’s … Continue reading →

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