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Pop!_OS Linux 20.10: Review

So one of my favorite Linux distributions, Pop!_OS, has released a new version, 20.10, and I’ve been using it since release day. Here are my thoughts.It’s based on Ubuntu 20.10 and comes with some cool ...

RDP Wrapper: How to use Windows Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) to access Windows 7 or 10 Home Edition

I've always known that RDC connectivity to a Windows 7 or Windows 10 machine was only an option if running the "Professional" version of the OS. But most computers ordered by default have the "Home" edition. ...

How to create an EC2 Auto Scaling Group with Load Balancing

You can set up EC2 Auto Scaling groups in minutes if you know how. I recently did a live stream showing off Pluralsights new Cloud Labs feature, and we walked through this lab.In this video, I walk through ...

Building a Go Web API with the Digital Ocean App Platform

Recently, Digital Ocean announced they’re entering the PaaS market with their new application platform. They’ve hosted virtual machines (droplets) and Kubernetes based services for years, but now they’re ...

Role based Access Control with Azure AD B2C and Azure Functions

Role based Access control – Azure AD B2C – work around We can enable Role Based access control with Azure AD B2C using custom attributes (defined in the Sign-Up/Signin User Flow in Azure AD B2C) ( also ...

Permission error when deploying a Lambda from a zip file in S3 - [Errno 13] Permission denied

Today I received the following error when trying to deploy from Azure DevOps a lambda to AWS via a zip file in S3:[ERROR] PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/task/inspector.py' Traceback ...

LambdaDeployFunction - [error]Error: Function:my-function does not exist, cannot update code only

Today I discovered an issue with the AWS Toolkit for Azure DevOps, specifically the AWS Lambda Deploy Function.The task task: LambdaDeployFunction@1 will incorrectly report that your function cannot be ...

Optimizing String Comparisons in Go

Want your Go programs to run faster? Optimizing string comparisons in Go can improve your application’s response time and help scalability. Comparing two strings to see if they’re equal takes processing ...

My paytm account is blocked due to suspicious activity.

I am using paytm from long time. I have good and bad both experience on paytm. Even the machine I used to write this post I bought on paytm few years ago.Today when I wake up I see a message in my phone ...

Reporting Spam Text Messages

As if we do not get enough "noise" from the news and other feeds, some political campaigns are bombarding us with text messages on our phones.These resources help explain how to report spam text messages ...

7 Reasons Why Front End Developers Going Full Stack Should Choose Go

Note: this article originally published on my programming blog August 12, 2020Do you like my articles? vote for me for Hacker Noon's Golang contributor of the year!So you’re a front end developer, and ...

Getting Up To Speed With Terraform For Azure

I feel like I have gone back to the 90’s where every developer needed to know how everything worked in the infrastructure. I guess that it is true that everything goes in cycles. DevOps has many faces ...

Shaking down the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera

I picked up the new Raspberry Pi High Quality camera last week. It’s pretty impressive. In this article, I’ll show you some ways to interact with this camera and do some cool stuff with it.This is my current ...

Get and Store Temperature from a Raspberry Pi with Go

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to grab temperature from a Raspberry Pi and build an endpoint to store the data, with Go. You will learn:How to retrieve the temperature from a sensorHow to send that ...

nodejs readline info

Readline is another Node.js native module that was developed specifically for this purpose — reading one line at a time from any readable stream. You can even use this module to read input data from the ...

How to Create a Mature Cloud Practice

Migrating to the cloud is one of the biggest challenges organizations face today. To do it well, you need systems that are fast, secure and scalable. It's difficult to know where to start or how to find ...

My blog has moved to https://ralphwillgoss.github.io

My Blog has now moved to https://ralphwillgoss.github.io

New Job Search World In 2020

This year I got the worst April Fools joke. I was laid off. For the first time in my life I was without a job. I came to the rude awakening that things were much different than the last time I had search ...

Windows Insider...hello and goodbye

I've always avoided using the Windows Insider programme. I need to able to depend on my computer for my work, and accepting the greater risk of early builds is not really compatible with that. However, ...

9 Free Courses You Can Take to Become a JavaScript Wizard

There are tons of front end frameworks to choose from, and getting good with them is no small task. But sharpening your core JavaScript skills can make you better at all front-end frameworks. By thoroughly ...

It's Tech Skills Day!! Join us!!

We're celebrating the power of tech skills all day today, and going live to talk with some of the most influential names in tech.Watch it live now!!!No sign-up required, just click and watch.Schedule(All ...

Devops documentation can be rough.

So, devops documentation can be really rough. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to run a new pipeline with expected parameters. This is for multi-stage pipelines. The pipeline yaml looked ...

Top Kubernetes Courses You Can Take Now

If you want to rocket your Kubernetes Administration skills to the next level, here's a list of great Kubernetes courses you can take right now. This is suited well for folks wanting to get into Kubernetes, ...

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My ubuntu 20.04 Machine run faster compare to Windows 10.

From years I was using Windows. Windows 10 was good OS for use when you work with mostly dotnet kind of things. You have a best editor to use that is Visual Studio 2019.I was using my windows machine for ...

Donate Your Unused CPU Cycles to Fight Coronavirus

The Folding at Home research project uses crowd sourced CPU power to help model simulations to develop treatments for diseases. You can help them by taking 5 minutes to download their client, and donate ...

AzDO Unix build - ERROR: Could not pull latest for the master branch

In Azure DevOps we have a build that is running on an Unix box. The build started to fail (see text below) and the solution was to generate new ssh keys on the Unix box (ssh –keygen) and then add them ...

Getting Started With WSL

This article was originally posted on my programming blog on Feburary 15th, 2020Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is awesome.It gives you the power to use Linux within your Windows system. A Linux shell ...

Become a React Developer in a Weekend

If you want to be a React Developer, there’s a lot to learn. You can get started in a weekend. Yes, in a single weekend, you can learn React and start developing some cool applications!

Aspose.Words “unreadable content”

Problem: Trying to open an Aspose produced .docx gives an “unreadable content” error. The file will still open up in MSWord but you have to click past warning messages. Interestingly enough, if you open ...

Disabling Secure Boot on a Hyper-V guest

To test out the MAP Toolkit, I wanted to have some Linux machines for it to detect. I created a virtual machine with an empty virtual had drive file and associated the latest Mint ISO file to the DVD drive.On ...

Setting DNS server addresses with Control Panel and Powershell

In my test environment, which isn't optimally configured, new installations can't find the domain as they are not pointing to the domain's DNS. Instead they default to the hub which forwards all DNS requests ...

What's the big deal with POP!_OS???

This was article originally posted on my Linux Blog.A new Linux distribution has been popping up in discussion circles everywhere, it’s Pop! OS. What is it and why are people so crazy about it?I’ll give ...

Fixing Chrome not autofilling passwords on Mac - without deleting Chrome profiles and settings

Fixing Chrome not autofilling passwords on Mac - without deleting Chrome profiles and settings:Chrome passwords not autofilling The solution Deleting the files Login Data and Login Data-journal from a ...

Enter the rack mounted server

A generous contact has loaned me a rack mounted server to turn into a Windows Hyper-V host. I don't have a rack to mount the machine in so have made use of a glass and chrome TV stand instead. Screams ...

Working towards “MCSA: Windows Server 2016” certification

A little too late, it could be argued, I’ve decided to refresh my Windows server skills to improve my job prospects. Looking at my MCSE certification, the story is quite woeful. Although I was sitting ...

2008 VW Rabbit windows fog up

Replace the Recirculation Air Flap Servo Motor. It’s not hard. And the fix works like a champ. It got so bad I drove around with the defroster on high and the window cracked open. In the Minnesota cold, ...

Trying Out the Pinebook Pro - a $200 ARM Laptop

This was article originally posted on my Linux Blog.The Pinebook Pro is a $200 laptop that runs a couple of ARM processors, and it promises a lot. Does it deliver? After what seemed like an eternity waiting, ...

The Developer Tool You Can't Live Without

This was article originally posted on my Programming Blog.I’m introducing a text / code generation tool that you will fall in love with. If you’re a developer or someone who works with text or tabulated ...

So there are 64-bit machines that can't run Hyper-V

My wife has finally replaced her desktop with a new one, releasing the old one for me to make into a test server. It's 64-bit so can run Windows 2016 datacentre edition which I download an evaluation version ...

ASP.NET Core Web API error - HTTP Error 500.31 - ANCM Failed to Find Native Dependencies

Common solutions to this issue: The specified version of Microsoft.NetCore.App or Microsoft.AspNetCore.App was not found. Looking on the server in the Event Viewer Application log I see a message “can’t ...

How Blazor Is Going to Change Web Development

This was article originally posted on my Programming Blog.A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about building and deploying a Blazor app without touching a Windows machine and realized maybe I should ...

Hyland An error occurred within the Unity API: Error code: (-24). DLL not loaded for platinum Win 3.x

We got this coding against the Hyland OnBase api. So code like this: Core.FileTypes.Find(x); Will work if x is “MS Word Document”, but if it is not a known type then x will be null. Passing x later into ...

Build and Deploy a Blazor App Without Touching a Windows Machine

This was article originally posted on my Programming Blog.Do you want to try out Blazor, but you’re not a Windows person? Strictly a Linux developer? We’ll you’re in luck. One of the goals of .NET Core ...

angular proxy cli to help with CORS

first step: npm install --save-dev https-proxy-agentadd proxy.conf.json to top level next to package.jsonFile should look like this: { "/": { "target": "http://target/service/api", "secure": false, "logLevel": ...

How to use CLI to create dotnet project from powershell or CMD

In ASP.NET CORE we can create the project through CLI, For example you need to create a project named Contoso, You need to create a folder Contoso.On Windows you can simply do it using md command, like ...

Full Stack Engineering Publication

After a long hiatus finally created a full stack engineering publication on medium.https://medium.com/u... (subscribe to get notifications of newly published tutorials)Topics covered (to be covere)1. ...

Rufus is the best tool for burning bootable ISO images to a thumb drive

I recently had the need to rescue a laptop that had no rescue disk. The MBR was messed up. Fairly easy to fix (not the subject of this article), if you can boot from the original installation DVD. Having ...