Category Archives: Tooling

Remote powershell or how I manage my local Hyper-V machines

Posted on May 18, 2015 by erictummers

For testing I’ve created some Hyper-V machines on my Windows 8.1 laptop. The burden of deploying software to these virtual machine has been resolved by powershell scripts on the virtual machines. The script is just a simple stop-service, copy new … Continue reading →

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Github 2FA from Visual Studio 2013

Posted on May 11, 2015 by erictummers

Tried to sync some changes to my Trello repository on Github but got prompted for my credentials. I remembered activating two-factor authentication (2FA) just recent. Would I be prompted for the one-time-password (OTP)? No, a 401 unauthorized was the answer. … Continue reading →

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WordPress facebook plugin fixed

Posted on May 6, 2015 by erictummers

My kids’ school has a website created in WordPress. It is maintained by a teacher and one volunteer. The position of volunteer became vacant and I offered to help. Earlier I fixed some issues described in this post. Now it … Continue reading →

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How I fixed a WordPress site

Posted on May 4, 2015 by erictummers

My kids’ school has a website created in WordPress. It is maintained by a teacher and one volunteer. The position of volunteer became vacant and I offered to help. The NextGEN Gallery plugin had suddenly stopped working. Since nobody knew … Continue reading →

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iPhoto/Aperture sync to iDevices

Posted on April 13, 2015 by erictummers

My home devices is mostly Apple The integration is superb, but I fear the vendor lock-in. Last week I tried to sync some pictures from Aperture to my iPad. Following the instructions from Apple it should be really simple. Just … Continue reading →

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