• Big Sur DDJ 1000 Driver Update

    Big Sur DDJ 1000 Driver Update

    Fixing the Pioneer Rekordbox Mac Audio Driver Installation on Big Sur If you’re having trouble installing the Pioneer Rekordbox audio driver on macOS Big Sur, you’re not alone. The issue stems from Big Sur’s…

  • Softlinks in Synology

    Softlinks in Synology

    Synology’s FileStation UI doesn’t allow you to create true symbolic links (softlinks). Instead, it only supports creating “shortcuts,” which show up under Favorites or on the Desktop—these are not actual filesystem symlinks. The good…

  • Monitoring a Synology Filesystem with AWS SQS

    Monitoring a Synology Filesystem with AWS SQS

    Use Case I would like to monitor events from a Synology NFS mount on another system. Solution Python module to monitor and forward filesystem events to an AWS SQS queue, that my external system…

  • 49″ Widescreen Monitors

    49″ Widescreen Monitors

    Can’t live without your dual screen? Try one of these 49″ Ultra Widescreen Monitors on for size: Samsung CHG 90, or DELL Ultra Sharp, Ultra Widescreen, 49″ Monitor. In January, I decided to pick…

  • Disabling the Master Realm

    Disabling the Master Realm

    Keycloak recommends limiting access to the Master realm, or operating without it altogether for improved security and separation of concerns. Before proceeding with that approach, however, it’s critical to ensure that each of your…

  • Keeping passwords out

    Keeping passwords out

    Most development projects rely on protected, external resources, such as databases, or rest services; and many times, for the sake of simplified testing, we add those credentials to our configuration files, which, if accidentally…

  • An Apache Zeppelin Test with Google Sheets

    An Apache Zeppelin Test with Google Sheets

    A 5min POC using google sheets in Zeppelin. Testing how easy it would be to drop data into a spreadsheet, then analyze it using Zeppelin. First go into https://docs.google.com and create a new spreadsheet,…

  • User Synchronization in APS from Keycloak

    User Synchronization in APS from Keycloak

    TL;DR : Using keycloak as an IDM or LDAP Domain Aggregator Download the APS Identity Sync Extension: https://github.com/alex4u2nv/aps-ais-authority-sync/releases/download/v1.0.0/aps-identity-sync-java-1.0.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar Configure APS to Integrate with Keycloak as in the example activiti-identity-service.properties Configure Keycloak to integrate with multiple…

  • How to get Docker Vault going in no time

    How to get Docker Vault going in no time

    Quick Steps Walkthrough This walk through is targeted for audiences who are new to Vault, or dev ops who just need an API to develop auto deployment scripts against. A production environment should be…