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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.

Week roundup

Posted on January 31, 2014 by erictummers

Here are the best articles I’ve read/seen last week: Top 10 iOS Shortcuts and Gestures on lifehacker.com This week I created Trello cards via email with a IFTTT workflow. Every morning at 6:00 AM the recipe would create a daily … Continue reading →

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Alternate Authentication Credentials

Posted on January 30, 2014 by erictummers

To allow third party tools to connect to your visual studio online enable Alternate Authentication Credentials After making the change I got an email from Microsoft. This is standard security policy now. Hi Eric Tummers, To maintain the security and … Continue reading →

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Synology SMART test

Posted on January 29, 2014 by erictummers

At home I have a synology DS212J. This is a NAS with some nice features. I configured it to SMART test itself and notify me when something is wrong with one of the disks. Here is how I did this … Continue reading →

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Stopmotion with lego

Posted on January 28, 2014 by erictummers

On twitter I read this post: Since I have a wordpress blog and like a challenge, here is the daily post in my Zero to Hero sequence. Publish a post using a format you’ve never used before As an extra … Continue reading →

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Nuget trouble (again)

Posted on January 28, 2014 by erictummers

Keeping the versions of packages in sync was difficult today, again. Now I tried testing my data access code with FakeDbSet. This is an in-memory store for your data, the owner describes it as A ready to use FakeDbSet for … Continue reading →

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