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aparis — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:35:51 +0000

Strategic future state design leadership within OSS. Hands on leadership of OSS products and technical service deliveries for dozens of enterprise deployments. Automation Excellence deploys enterprise programmatic FCAPS model OSS systems. We coach and delivered Enterprise transformational management of TOGAF processes linking requirements, development, test automation and operations monitoring to a common focal point for root cause analysis and programmatic validation of business products and the micro-services within.

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superuser — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:28:22 +0000

Automation Excellence (AE), located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, specializes in Agile software delivery utilizing a test first delivery model. AE begins and ends with the end user defining the acceptance test criteria, using a wiki-based single source of information to drive the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and transform that information into built in verification suites on enterprise level applications.

:after{awesome!} is :before{CSS}

Ken Brazier — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:43:44 +0000

Or, "How to replace an entire text title with CSS".

For the longest time, I thought it was a cardinal rule of CSS: You can add pictures, but you can't add text. I must have been aiming for extremely old browser support when I learned this, probably IE6, because with modern browsers it's clearly wrong. Not only can you add text to a page with CSS, I've found a way to actually replace small pieces of text like short headings.

Placid

Eric Pierce — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:11:29 +0000

Placid is an ActiveRecord-ish model using a REST API for storage.

Install:

$ gem install placid

Extending Drupal 7 text field character limit

Joshua Williams — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:03:27 +0000

After getting the message, "There is data for this field in the database. The field settings can no longer be changed." while trying to extend the character limit for a text field in a Drupal 7 instance, I used the code below to increase the character limit. It modifies the relevant parts of the database to allow more characters. I ran the SQL code through a content node with the PHP Code Text Filter enabled, but it could also be run in a custom module.

Hypermiling: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love U.S. Gas Prices

Eric Pierce — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:10:31 +0000

A lot of people are complaining about the price of gasoline these days. It's not hard to find someone who is outraged at paying nearly 4 bucks a gallon to fill up their tank, and the issue has become so politicized and polarizing that we hear a lot of arguments about whether or not we should be doing more drilling, implementing stricter standards on automobile efficiency, or investing in alternative energy sources.

Candy-gram for Mongo

Eric Pierce — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:00:58 +0000

Bart: I better go check out this Mongo character.
[Bart reaches for his gun]
Jim: Oh no, don't do that, don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad.

So I've got this Rails application that uses a read more

VIM Delete Cheat Sheet

Marcus French — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:22:18 +0000

x - delete current character
dw - delete current word
dd - delete current line
5dd - delete five lines

d$ - delete to end of line
d0 - delete to beginning of line

:1,.d
delete to beginning of file

:.,$d
delete to end of file

Steps to getting Ruby to handle SQL Server on a CentOS box using unixODBC

Marcus French — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:10:46 +0000

1. yum install unixODBC freetds freetds-devel unixODBC-devel
2. Add your database to /etc/freetds.conf:
[(your custom connection name)]
host = (your host)
port = 1433
tds version = 7.0
username = (username)
password = (password)
3. Add this to /etc/odbcinst.ini:
[FreeTDS]
Description = TDS driver (Sybase/MS SQL)
Driver = /usr/lib64/libtdsodbc.so
Setup = /usr/lib64/libtdsS.so
CPTimeout =
CPReuse =
FileUsage = 1
4. Add your database to /etc/odb.ini:
[(your custom connection name)]

Flow of a Performance Test

Marcus French — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:08:14 +0000

Basic Flow of a Performance Test, as I've done them, for those interested:

1) Use read more