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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.

Resolve certificate error for Synology Diskstation part 1 of 4

Posted on April 26, 2013 by erictummers

My Synology NAS allows the use of SSL to encrypt traffic. The default certificate supplied works, but gives an exception in the browser: There is a problem with this websites security certificate. The problem is the address and the certificate … Continue reading →

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Code generation

Posted on March 29, 2013 by erictummers

We developers have T4 in Visual Studio. I’ve been playing with this for a while now and use it more often to speed up repetitive tasks. The Business Intelligence team has BIML in Visual Studio. A colleague asked me to … Continue reading →

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My blog is carbon neutral

Posted on March 28, 2013 by erictummers

With this post a tree is planted, neutralising the carbon dioxide emissions of my blog. Read all about it on Mach’s grün (no worries, it’s in english) Spread the word and plant your own tree by blogging about this.

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Loading generic.xaml from embedded assembly

Posted on March 5, 2013 by erictummers

My WPF application uses custom controls in a referenced library. To simplify deployment, all dependent DLLs are embedded resources of the application EXE file. Read Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition to get the details. The … Continue reading →

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Parallel Deflate issue in DotNetZip Library

Posted on March 1, 2013 by erictummers

For deployment packages we use DotNetZip Library to create zip files. One of the files recently became corrupted when put in the package. We investigated the changing of Compression Level and Compression Method. Which solved the issue but none were … Continue reading →

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