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I will be attending AWS Re:Invent replay and your Devops questions answered on Thursday, Dec 6 2018

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 22:18 by Jamie Tanna .

Between Friday, Nov 30 2018 and Saturday, Dec 1 2018 I took 11119 steps.

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Using Fake Cookbooks for Writing ChefSpec Tests for your Custom Chef Resources (3 mins read).

A directory structure I've found quite useful for writing ChefSpec tests for custom resources, by creating a fake cookbook within the cookbook you're testing.

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:18 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #custom-resource #chefspec.

Between Wednesday, Nov 28 2018 and Thursday, Nov 29 2018 I took 8606 steps.

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Creating a versionable, self-contained (fat-/uber-) JAR for Gatling tests (17 mins read).

Why you'd want a fat JAR for your Gatling tests and how you'd achieve it.

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:46 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #gatling #testing #jar #artifact #artefact #maven #uber-jar.

Tweaking Gatling HighCharts Response Time Bounds (3 mins read).

How to configure the bounds that Gatling marks your response times within for console output and graphing purposes.

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:46 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #gatling #gatling-highcharts.

Between Sunday, Nov 18 2018 and Monday, Nov 19 2018 I took 6675 steps.

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Setting your default AWS profile for the AWS CLI and SDKs (2 mins read).

Setting the default AWS profile when working with multiple profiles and the AWS CLI / SDKs.

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:12 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #aws #aws-cli #aws-sdk #command-line.

Between Wednesday, Nov 14 2018 and Thursday, Nov 15 2018 I took 6424 steps.

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Between Tuesday, Nov 13 2018 and Wednesday, Nov 14 2018 I took 820 steps.

Wed, 14 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Chef 14 Upgrade: Custom Resource Properties are Silently Coerced to Hash if they are a nil (2 mins read).

Finding out that a nil gets silently coerced to an empty Hash if given to a custom resource's property of type Hash.

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:47 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-14 #chef-14-upgrade #chefspec #test-coverage.

Chef 14: ChefSpec Coverage Reporting Deprecation (1 mins read).

Noting the deprecation of using ChefSpec::Coverage.start! when using Chef 14 and above.

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:23 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-14 #chef-14-upgrade #chefspec #test-coverage.

Between Monday, Nov 12 2018 and Tuesday, Nov 13 2018 I took 10497 steps.

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Chef 14 Upgrade: Change in ValidationFailed error messages when setting required properties (2 mins read).

The updated error message returned by a Chef ValidationFailed error, when you're specifying which properties are required on a custom resource.

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 23:35 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-14-upgrade #chef #chefspec #chef-14.

Between Sunday, Nov 11 2018 and Monday, Nov 12 2018 I took 9946 steps.

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

I will be attending LincolnHack 2018 on Saturday, Nov 10 2018

Sat, 10 Nov 2018 10:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Sat, 10 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Why You Should Be Unit Testing Your Functional Acceptance Tests (7 mins read).

A few reasons explaining why you should be writing unit tests for your functional tests.

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 22:28 by Jamie Tanna . #persuasive #testing #software-testing #tdd #bdd #cucumber #software-quality #quality-engineering #unit-testing.

Between Tuesday, Nov 6 2018 and Wednesday, Nov 7 2018 I took 9816 steps.

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Sat, 03 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Viewing X.509 DER Certificate Details with OpenSSL (2 mins read).

How to convert an X.509 DER file to a human-readable format using openssl commands.

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 07:57 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #certificates #command-line #der #openssl.

Viewing X.509 PEM Certificate Details with OpenSSL (2 mins read).

How to convert an X.509 PEM file to a human-readable format using openssl commands.

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 07:57 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #certificates #command-line #pem #openssl.

Between Thursday, Nov 1 2018 and Friday, Nov 2 2018 I took 7188 steps.

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Between Tuesday, Oct 30 2018 and Wednesday, Oct 31 2018 I took 6228 steps.

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Between Monday, Oct 29 2018 and Tuesday, Oct 30 2018 I took 7819 steps.

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

I will be attending #NottsTest - Lightning Talks & Lean Coffee on Wednesday, Nov 7 2018

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:17 by Jamie Tanna .

Between Sunday, Oct 28 2018 and Monday, Oct 29 2018 I took 752 steps.

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Backporting/Replaying Changes Using git cherry-pick (6 mins read).

Using git cherry-pick to make it easier to backport or replay Git commits across different versions of your codebase.

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 22:22 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git #git-cherry-pick.

Revert 'Some knowledge-sharing news' (5 mins read).

The unfortunate decision to cancel my Packt training courses.

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:40 by Jamie Tanna . #news #events #chef #testing #tdd.

Between Saturday, Oct 27 2018 and Sunday, Oct 28 2018 I took 6624 steps.

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:00 by Jamie Tanna .