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Kitty
Kitty (available in PortableApps) is a putty-fork, that adds a few nifty little features. I like it because of the start-button and especially as it can save profiles not just in the registry but also a flat files.
Read more ...PortableApps
More often than not, I am obliged to use a customer’s client setup. Usually, because of network access in the customer’s work environments (VPN, or alike).
In such cases, I noticed the inherent lack of proper tools to work. Either you do not get what you need or it takes ages or the tools comes in an incomplete, outdated, castrated fashion.
There is a way to make yourself independant of such environmental limitations: PortableApps.
Read more ...Homebrew
I presume that we all know Linux and know the benefits of having a distribution with a proper package management. Now, macOS can do this as well.
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Box.com is a cloud storage vendor much like Dropbox. They did not start too promising to me, as initially they seem to have limited the amount of data to be accessed or written per month, but it seems that this limitation vanished. Now it is a pretty reasonable service. Definitely to be considered as a replacement for the degraded free plan of Dropbox.
Read more ...Dropbox
Dropbox is a cloud file share. Actually it keeps a local directory in sync. Regrettably, Dropbox recently limited the free plan’s capabilities to a total of three devices, making it less attractive for “little stuff”. Looking at the pricing, for medium sized and specific use-cases, there are many alternatives … every larger IT-enterprise offers alike solutions: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, you name them. Your choice depends on your situation and use-case.
Read more ...Ansible
Well, this is a love-hate-relationship. Ansible uses YAML, the assumption is, that it documents the target configuration and that Ansible is idempotent. As such Ansible should be able to reach the target configuration from any defined starting configuration. In practice this is not always that straightforward. Advantages of Ansible Ansible works without an agent on the target system. Well, it needs python and uses ssh. Issues with Ansible Configuring packages is pretty easy: if you update a packages config files remain untouched. Read more ...Vagrant
First contact was a catastrophe. I did not know what the heck people see in it. I hated it, I made jokes about it. Waiting a bit and re-thinking my position, I gave it a second chance. It was not easy, there is not too much good introduction material for Vagrant. Then it dawned to me, that this is could be the holy grail of software development: instantly refreshed development environment. Read more ...DevOps in general
Ok, I might explain a bit about DevOps. Usually setting up a development environment involves these steps: Create a VM Install an OS inside the VM Setup the VM’s networking properly Setup development tools inside the VM Copy the sources to the VM … and more Now you need to be very strong … using the proper tools you can do all this with a single command-line. Vagrant enables you to create VMs with prepared images from the Internet including the network setup and running Ansible-playbooks to do the remaining setup. Read more ...Bitbucket
Let us talk about SCM cloud services … if GitHub is good for you, fine. Otherwise Bitbucket may be your way out.
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