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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.

Citrix Receiver on Windows 8.1

Posted on January 8, 2014 by erictummers

Citrix is not my expertise. I learned this the hard way. (= reading support) To gain access to a Citrix environment from Windows 8.1 follow the steps below. Configuration steps Download the latest Citrix Receiver from receiver.citrix.com Add your Web … Continue reading →

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Art of unit testing

Posted on January 7, 2014 by erictummers

I want to share a basic principle about unit testing I’ve adopted from Roy. Make unit tests:

  • Readable
  • Trustworthy
  • Fast
  • Maintainable

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Migrate WCF to be hosted in Azure

Posted on January 4, 2014 by erictummers

One of the reasons I started this blog was to share my (work) experience and give back to the internet. On my last project I migrated WCF services to be hosted in Windows Azure. With the right structure in place this was shockingly easy. Continue reading →

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Zero to Hero

Posted on January 3, 2014 by erictummers

For 2014 I hope to participate in a big Windows Azure project. That would give me enough to write about on this blog. We’ll see what comes my way. Continue reading →

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2013 in review

Posted on January 1, 2014 by erictummers

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2013. If it were a … Continue reading →

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