Posts in Programming

No one should write Terraform

Reflecting upon zwischenzugs insightful and thought provoking article “Who should write the Terraform?”, the TL;DR conclusion I’ve come to is “No One”.

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Powershell + Windows Update

Windows administration is part of my job that I don’t enjoy as much as linux, but it is still necessary. Though Windows is becoming less and less required, a lot of software still relies on it.

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Title: WebService::Strava - A Strava API Perl Client

Being a Cyclist and a Geek, I like to track things. Being a Sys Admin and a Programmer I also like this to happen in the most efficient manner possible. Insert Strava, which is basically a social networking platform for cyclists/runners/swimmers (I believe they’re adding more as well). Strava has an App for recording things or you can use any app or device that can output in one of the supported formats (GPX, FIT and TCX).

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Jira Automation + Copying Fields

We heavily utilise Jira at my place of work and one of our non IT based departments use it in their business processes. It was chosen to replace a custom developed, unreliable .NET application and apart from minor bending to suit the processes Jira is an excellent replacement. It’s also far more reliable, far easier to keep up-to-date and runs on Linux!

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Dancing with WebSockets

I learnt during the development of the EventStreamR frontend that websockets are cool! Another learning project of mine is NanodeControl and after learning what all the cool new things are available I wanted to have a crack at making it more modern.

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Git: Bah, wrong branch!

I love git, it’s a really great tool. However no matter how used I get to my workflows I eventually end up commiting something into the wrong branch!

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Automating AV: EventStreamr

EventStreamR come to inception from a collection of experiences amongst our local LUG the Perth Linux User Group. Although we call ourselves PLUG, we have members from all over the state. Western Australia being quite large, 2,529,875 square km or over 10 times bigger than Victoria; so some of our members find it quite difficult to attend. A few years ago an initiave started by James Bromberger was to film and live stream all PLUG talks so that every member had an oppurtunity to attend our meetings, even if they couldn’t necessarily make it in person.

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