Coding and Scripting
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Crafting a PowerShell Script for Azure Resource Utilization: A Collaborative Coding Journey
The project involved creating a PowerShell script to analyze Azure resource utilization, focusing on CPU usage for VMs. Initially simple, it evolved into a flexible tool supporting multiple resource types, error logging, and compatibility with PowerShell 5.1. Collaborative coding emphasized… Continue reading
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Understanding File Management in Python on Linux with lsof and watch
Using ‘lsof’ and ‘watch’ to monitor open files in your scripts and programs. Continue reading
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‘hi’ shows its colors
Information about the latest features of the ‘hi’ Host Information tool, including logging, state tracking, and color customization. Continue reading
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Hot-Tip: Use a Markdown Viewer For Fast Feedback on Your Markdown File Updates
If you ever need to do some quick iteration on a Markdown file, want rapid feedback, instead of (for example) having to wait until you do a ‘git push’ to GitHub in order to see the result, there is another… Continue reading
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Introducing ‘hi’ – the Host Information tool
Are you a fan of the Linux command-line? I know I am. Some folks love it. Some folks would rather a GUI interface of some kind. There are many reasons why some developers or *nix admins love the command line.… Continue reading
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Checking OS Versions Across Multiple Hosts with Ansible
Often when you are maintaining a large number of servers, it is useful to be able to query those systems all at once to find out information like IP address, configured hostnames, and even the OS version. In this… Continue reading
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rbenv – The Ruby Environment Management Tool
In the past, fun with Perl.. When I was using perl as my primary development language, I had a platform of tools in place to make my perl development fun and productive. This included tools like Perl::Dancer, DBIx::Class, cpanm, and… Continue reading
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Ansible Playbooks – Externalization and Deduplication
Developers who understand the concepts of modularity and deduplication should immediately recognize the power behind being able to include settings and commands from external files. It is seriously counter-productive to maintain multiple scripts or playbooks that have large blocks… Continue reading
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Examples of Recursion, in Perl, Ruby, and Bash
This article is in response to the following question posted in the Perl community group on LinkedIn: I’m new to PERL and trying to understand recursive subroutines. Can someone please explain with an example (other than the factorial 😉 )… Continue reading
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Playing With Prime Numbers
I’ve been toying around with functional programming, and recently came across a perlmonks thread discussing multiple ways to calculate prime numbers. One of the things I noticed about many of the examples was that almost all of them used loops… Continue reading
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