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Pybash

May 28, 2020 / English Content, Knowledgebase, Python, Software / ,
The project has been renamed into “runif”. This page left only for Google Search happiness. Pybash is a python library to make python script as easy as in Bourne Again Shell (Bash). Bash scripting is very easy to setup. So we end up using it all the time for simple procedural script. Sometimes is it …

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Git History Squash for fun and profit

February 14, 2020 / English Content, IT Featured, Knowledgebase / ,
Suppose you are developing a boring Jenkins pipline (like Jenkinsfile-s) with no time at all. You are forced to commit and then run the jenkins pipeline. Jenkins download the code from your LOCAL repository. To avoid commit& push roundtrip you are using the simple git daemon command to expose your local repository to jenkins. So …

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Avoid Kafka if unsure (think twice series)

December 2, 2019 / English Content, IT Featured, Knowledgebase, Structured Query Language (SQL) / , ,
Some co-workers started using Apache Kafka con a bunch of our Customers. Apache Kafka is a community distributed event streaming platform capable of handling trillions of events a day. Initially conceived as a messaging queue, Kafka is based on an abstraction of a distributed commit log[*]. To get this goal, Apache Kafka needs a complex …

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Docker tips

August 6, 2020 / English Content, Knowledgebase / ,
Use docker in docker to drive docker from a container Working under windows, sometimes docker slow down. Sometimes you need to access to the MobyVM. With this line: docker run --rm -ti -v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock" -v /:/host docker sh you run a container which will removed upon exit. This container can access to docker daemon (via …

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Commander X16: retro magic dream

June 4, 2020 / English Content, IT Featured, Retro Computing / , ,
Some time ago I mentioned the Pyc64 project, a “differently emulated” C/64. There’s a much more ambitious project that’s going under pressure, it’s called Commander X 16. Commander X 16 has been started by David Murray and three other guys. David’s desire was to create an 8-bit computer similar to the C/64 but a little …

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Why DevOps

March 15, 2019 / DevOps
We just finished implementing a dev ops deploy toolchain able to compile,deploy, rollback all in automatic way. The objection of the dev team is “it is slow to deploy”. Yes, it is slower then manual copying file. But it is AUTOMATIC It provide a rollback procedure. It is rock solid. It works alone, at midnight. …

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isync: free IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer

February 4, 2019 / English Content, Knowledgebase / ,
isync: free IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizerisync is a command line application which synchronizes mailboxes; currently Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes are supported. New messages, message deletions and flag changes can be propagated both ways. isync is suitable for use in IMAP-disconnected mode.Synchronization is based on unique message identifiers (UIDs), so no identification conflicts can occur …

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Fail2Ban

February 1, 2019 / English Content, Knowledgebase, Unix / , ,
On these days I decided to tune a bit my new shiny linux server box. I started to set up fail2ban. I think fail2ban is very imporant nowadays because it is a good example of a tool for slowing down attacks without closing your server too much. Fail2ban is a daemon: it wll monitor your …

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?FileSystem is faster than RAM [under your Operating System]

January 19, 2019 / English Content, IT Featured / , , ,
I am studying Apache Kafka (a “distributed streaming platform”) and I stubled upon this conclusion: the “disk read fear” a lot of projects have in the past, is a fake. A lot of distributed database started tutorial with the statement “disk read are slow, write are fast” which is true to some extent, and accounted …

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Thinking in Angular 4: Templates

November 19, 2019 / English Content, IT Featured, Knowledgebase / , , , ,
To understand Angular 4, after the “Hero” tutorial you should start from the Template syntax.  We highlighted some statement in red below: Data direction Syntax Type One-way from data source to view target {{expression}} [target]="expression" bind-target="expression" Interpolation Property Attribute Class Style One-way from view target to data source (target)="statement" on-target="statement" Event Two-way [(target)]="expression" bindon-target="expression" Two-way …

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