Tighter security can cause headaches for developers.

I’m here to help out by providing…

The guide explains how to use them with Freestyle jobs (classic Jenkins jobs) but not how to use them with the newer declarative pipeline jobs.

In this post, I’ll show you how to:

• Set up a job to ask for credentials when triggered.
• Allow users to provide their user credentials as a parameter.
• Configure the pipeline job to use the passed in credentials.

The solution is dns-heaven. Just use this command if you trust shell scripts running as root from random people on the…

I’m going to explain some rules I use to create announcements for email and slack. These rules work for other digital mediums as well.

To be clear; By announcement I mean notices saying there will be an outage or an upgrade, etc.

Instead of using the variable name directly, wrap it in curly braces ({}). This will use the contents of the variable as the variable name.

let l:variable_name = 'b:infosec_username'
let {l:variable_name} = 'George'

echo exists(l:variable_name) " => 1
echo {l:variable_name} " => George

Me too.

I am interested in learning different orchestration mechanisms and would like to understand how they differ.

What are the differences between Chef, Puppet, Heat/HOT, Juju…

You can do with by changing your .kitchen.yml file. In my example, I’ll show it at the root, but they can be set on a per-suite level as well, which is handy to test different environments.

When using HEREDOCs in Ruby, the <<- operator is handy to keep everything indented in the source. But…

In my network, all hosts have the same domain name. However, we knife bootstraped this one system without setting the node name with the -N flag.

Therefore I wanted to rename the nodes. With some experimentation, I figured it out.

It’s on your system. Every Unix-like system has /bin/bash; Redhat, Ubuntu, and even OS X.

But bash is still a lousy language.

This is where bash tracebacks come in…

“Whaaaaa? Bash has tracebacks?” I can hear you ask.

Yup, it can.

There is no obvious place in chrome to refresh that cache, but there is a nifty trick.

I wrote a simple one-page web application called 40days. It shows you what the date is for 40 days in the future. I say “simple” but simple isn’t easy. It never is.

It’s a good article and I recommend you read it. docwhat.org is now only using https.

I…

It’s an interesting story. Grab a beer and pull up a chair…

He’s a very practical guy. He’ll get the job done quickly and efficiently. And, he’ll answer any and all questions. Something that not all doctors do well. His staff is awesome and helpful as well.

I’ve found a couple places that look decent, and wanted to record them here for future use. If you have any suggestions or recommendations, I’d appreciate it. I’m also looking for someone to install them (and remove the existing ones) in the Pittsburgh, PA area.

This is great except that you loose your cursor (and window) position.