Rclone saved the day
September 11, 2019
Connecting to cloud storage is becoming more and more frequent. Never before so many datasources and resources in general were in the cloud before. When it comes to Linux and Microsoft, there are still some gaps in integration, and one of them is the OneDrive. Fortunately, the rclone project demonstrated that it is a serious […]
Machine Learning Course text notes
October 13, 2018
This post contains notes of the Machine Learning course taken at University of Toronto, 2018 (still ongoing) This may make references to material that is copyrighted. Therefore, the material will not be attached. The working book is Géron, A; Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn & TensorFlow; O’Reilly; 7th release; 20-07-2018. Most of the mentioned examples […]
Docker for Windows + Virtual Box
August 23, 2018
I decided to try Docker at the current version. After reading the Readme file, just stated that it will not run along with VirtualBox in the same machine. Once my job requires Virtual Box + Vagrant, a search for a solution came out to two different approaches: 1 – Install the old version of Docker […]
Pentaho for ETL
August 13, 2018
Recently I was asked to install and run a bridge between a MSSQL database having SAP datasets to import into SugarCRM Ondemand (Cloud) instance. Thus, I created a development environment with the same data and connection. The steps for running Spoon (aka Kettle, which was bought) follow. Applicable to Pentaho Versions: 7 – 8.1 1 […]
Linux – The sed command
April 10, 2018
This very flexible tool present in Linux distributions is used for a plethora of use cases related to text processing, most taking care of all possible exceptions. I had the need to read the manual again in order to be able to apply the simplest way (imho) for get rid of sections of text. My […]
Linux flavors running natively under Windows
April 3, 2018
As weird as it could sound by that time, this day has arrived around 2 years ago and seem to be more stable each day. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about The official Microsoft page is astonishing for a first reading, and surely it worth a copy here. It sounds as something that should not be considered to be used […]
Postman and APIs
February 20, 2018
This small tool was revealed itself handy and powerful, regardless its simplicity. It may be found as a Chrome extension, even though it installs itself as an ordinary app under Windows. https://www.getpostman.com/docs/ It has also free and paid versions, even though the tool performed well for single-user programmers or specific API connecting tests. It works […]
Basic Git usages
February 20, 2018
When I left the SVN world, I started to brave the new world of git. Not that new… the matter is that most system had already automated git basic usages until something weird happens during your commit/push process such as conflicts. So, let’s start from scratch: First commit Approach 1 via HTTPS: Create the repo […]
MySQL databases
February 20, 2018
Most of open source solutions make use of MySQL-based engines such as MariaDB. When well configured, they are indeed reliable and trustful. Database administrators or support staff might need specific queries. I came across situations that made me select some handful queries and patterns. Query to verify size of the databases schemas in MySQL SELECT […]
PHP tips and tricks
February 20, 2018
Once I used to be a Java and Python backend programmer, the similarities I could find among Python and PHP were the web server (Apache), the roots and style. Why PHP? Why not? When this article was written, there were a plethora of systems out there backed by this language, some of them industry’s giants […]