Azure AD user had been initially created with a typo on his name. All the attributes had since then been fixed or so it looked like.
Everything else worked fine, but this particular user could not log-on to Azure AD Domain Services connected Remote Desktop servers with his domainusername style …
I was building a simple tool to automate some uploads to Azure Blob Storage in Azure Functions. Decided to use PowerShell for that, since well, sounds like a job for PowerShell!
Getting the script to work on my computer was easy, getting it to work on Azure Functions.. not that …
After setting up point-to-site VPNs on Azure, I thought I'd just throw in quickly also a site-to-site connection between the office Meraki MX device and the Azure VPN gateway.
Turned out it was not so straightforward. The VPN gateway on Azure was route based, which means IKEv2. To my surprise …
Sometimes it is handy to run ping on the background to monitor network connectivity. Combine Microsoft PowerShell and the PsPing utility from Microsoft and you get a nice logging solution with shows on each line a timestamp and the results from the ping.
Ordinary ping:
psping -t -i 10 server1 …Couple of times git has suddenly started complaining "remote: Repository not found" when trying to do a pull on existing project. I haven't figured …
I started investigating pairing problems with my Bose QC35 headphone/headset and Windows. At first I was wondering why I actually see two separate QC35 devices with different icons in the pairing list. Soon I figured out the other one was "headphones" and the other one "hands-free" device. If I …
Steps for getting SSL certificate in pfx format (suitable for Azure for example)
openssl req -new -nodes -keyout mycert.key -out mycert.csr -newkey rsa:2048
Upload CSR, get the Certificate and save it local file. Get the intermediate certificates (if needed).
Concatenate the intermedia certs to one file:
cat …Azure now supports multiple IP addresses per cloud service. This means you can for example host multiple web sites, each running in different IP address on one cloud service (1..n virtual machines).
Right now it seems to be be possible to manage this only via the Azure PowerShell commandlets …
After installing Azure CLI tools and trying to use them on the first time on Windows, I started getting "Credentials have expired, please reauthenticate Detailed error message from ADAL is as follows: Error: Entry not found in cache." error message. A regular logout/login did not fix the issue in …
When creating a new project based on Maven archetype IntelliJ IDEA wants know certain Maven related directories. It took few minutes to figure out what IDEA actually wants here and answering wrong gives the not very informative "Maven home directory is invalid" -error message.
The Maven home directory is the …
SPSS alternative, GNU PSPP include a very easy to use tool that can convert the SPSS SAV file to CSV. This can be further read in to excel. Just open the csv file in Excel. If excel does not automatically split data, choose the first column, go to Data tab …
Long(er) story
I ran into "interesting" problem on CentOS while trying to setup VsFTP with FTPS. I was using FileZilla to connect to the server. The VsFTPd version that comes with my CentOS version seems to be rather old …
Azure Storage Emulator has logging capability but this is not enabled by default and it does not seem to be available via user interface.
In order to enable the log,
I installed Ubuntu under Hyper-V and for reason the UI with all the effects is S-L-O-W.
Quick steps for disabling the UI effects:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager ccsm
Then head to the effects tab and disable those that you want. This does not make the UI blazing fast, but helps …
I fell in love with the full size Apple keyboard. It is low profile and I really like how it works. Plus it's pretty affordable (compared to premium keyboards).
Unfortunately by default few of the keys are out of place compared to standard PC keyboard. In order to fix this …
When you install SQL Server Express you can select the authentication mode. If you want to enable SQL Server authentication mode (username and password) later on, you can use T-SQL to do it:
ALTER LOGIN sa ENABLE;
GO
ALTER LOGIN sa WITH PASSWORD = '<strong password>';
GO
In order to investigate certain issues I wanted to find out the journal categories directly from database.
Below is the select I came up with. This is for MySQL. The string operations on the second line try to extract the actual content that is inside the extra markup. It is …
A simple example for writing log entries from Liferay velocity templates
#set ($logFactory = $portal.getClass().forName('com.liferay.portal.kernel.log.LogFactoryUtil'))
#set ($log = $logFactory.getLog('myTemplate'))
$log.info('Here we go again')
Drop something to the drawing surface, all other shapes freak out, running away from your new shape which you just wanted to throw in the background. Sounds familiar?
If this something you don't like, then disable connector splitting. Head to File-menu, select options. Then go to advanced and uncheck the …
I recently ran into issues with a third party application that had certain issues with threadlocals. Namely certain parts of the application were using threadlocal to store information, but did not clean up the stored information. This information then caused issues on other part of the application. Now this certainly …
Creating a self-signed certificate is simple - when you know the correct commands.
First create the sertificate and private key
makecert -r -sv example-org.pvk example-org.cer -a sha1 -n "CN=www.example.org" -pe -len 2048 -sky exchange -eku 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1
(specify some …
I'm using multiple monitors and sometimes it would be useful to have hotkeys that would position the active window to certain place on certain screen. I took a quick look at ready made software but those did not seem to solve my specific problem.
Luckily I found Autohotkey which allows …
Few Windows 8 hotkeys I have found useful:
Win |
Goto start screen, start typing application name to search for it |
Win-X |
Open advanced menu from bottom-left corner of screen (you can access this by right clicking mouse on same place) |
Win-X + A |
Open command prompt as administrator |
Win-X + C |
Open … |
Quite many vendors brag about the AES-256 encryption capabilities of their SSD drives. This sounds good, everybody like to keep their data safe & secure. But how this encryption really works, what does it protected you from? Easy questions, right? Sure this is clearly documented by the vendors.
Well.. It is …
With calculations in binds it is easy to run into NaN (Not-a-Number) or INF values showing on the form.
There are few ways to get rid of them
A simple processor for Orbeon forms that extracts locale information from request.
package fi.iki.juhap.xpl; import java.util.Locale; import org.dom4j.Document; import org.dom4j.DocumentHelper; import org.dom4j.Element; import org.orbeon.oxf.pipeline.api.ExternalContext; import org.orbeon.oxf.pipeline.api.PipelineContext; import org.orbeon …
"An Error has Occurred Fatal error: Content is not allowed in prolog."
Not one of my favourite problems as it is sometimes difficult to figure out what is the actual cause. In general the "content is not allowed in prolog" indicates there is some content in the xml file or …
Orbeon XPL is way of describing processing flows using XML syntax. Since there is no debugger the debugging mostly happens by putting something in and looking at what comes out.
You can always get the output from pipeline by using the "debug" attribute with processors, but reading the information from …
Quite often I end up in situations where I need to use a value from HTTP request (either parameter or header) inside a configuration element for another Orbeon XPL processor.
One fairly simple way to do this is to use oxf:xslt processor as shown below:
<p:config xmlns:p …Liferay service builder code generation is based on Freemarker templates. The default templates come packaged inside the portal jar files. You can take a look at them for example in Github (note that those are from master branch - if you want to make modifications you should probably locate template files …
When you create a new service with Liferay service builder that system generates a whole lot of boilerplate code based on the few lines you put into the service.xml. Part of the code deals with the problem related to passing objects between different web applications.
Think about a simple …
Working with application servers it is not uncommon to run into strange ClassCastExceptions which seem to have now reason. You are trying to cast an instance of MyModel to MyModel and yet them JVM is having issues with it.
Experience has shown that there are two main categories for these …
Simple instructions for setting up git so that you can push new versions to server from the comfort of your workstation. This is based on article by Abhijit Menon-Sen. If you need more details, take a look at that.
This will create the home directory for the project underneath /var …
Creating new portlet project in Liferay IDE may result in NullPointerException and complaints about no IModelProvider being found for Dynamic Web Module 3.0. An example of the stack trace is below (you can see this in your $WORKSPACE/.metadata/.log -file).
This seems to result from some Eclipse components …
Tim Smart describes in his article a great way to use upstart on Ubuntu to startup node.js applications.
Below is my version of his script. I stripped the PID file handling and moved configuration to use environment variables (to be able to use the same basescript for multiple apps …
I wanted to replace multiple occurrences of underscore with single in one bash shell script. With regular expressions this is pretty simple, but by default they are not available directly in bash (using awk, sed and other tools would have obviously solved the problem). The "pure bash" solution involved turning …
A quick'n'dirty1 way for transfering MongoDB collection from Linux to Windows, using plink as the ssh client.
If you have setup the key based authentication for SSH and are using pageant to manage the key locally, this does not prompt for password. -load null forces plink to ignore the …
Some D-Link models support updating selected dynamic dns services. The support is however limited and it seems to be that for example you can't configure it to push updates to ZoneEdit.
A simple workaround is to use the D-Link provided free dynamic dns service, https://www.dlinkddns.com for the …
The MongoDB version available from the default Ubuntu/Debian repositories can be fairly old. Luckily it is easy to get a newer version directly from 10gen repository
# If necessary, remove previous installation
# sudo apt-get remove mongodb
# Add appropriate key
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
# Add Repository …Install Apache and Enable relevant Apache proxy modules
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo a2enmod proxy proxy_http
Create new configuration file for the virtual host in /etc/apache2/sites-available.
Link the created configuration file to sites-enabled. The numbers in target name are there to guarantee the files get loaded in …
Quick instructions for enabling firewall on Ubuntu using Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw). The resulting rules are quite obvious. Incoming traffic is denied, except for ssh, http and https (these refer to /etc/services) and outgoing is allowed.
These policies do not affect ICMP. Incoming ICMP remains allowed as per default ufw …
Quick install script for installing mongodb a service on Windows. Further instructions are available in official MongoDB docs.
Download appropriate version: http://www.mongodb.org/downloads extract to your folder of choice, startup cmd.exe as Administrator and change to the MongDB folder. .. code-block:: bash
REM -- Setup directories set mongodir …
Simple steps for getting new IP address via DHCP on Ubuntu (tested on Ubuntu 11.10, running under vmware with bridged network)
Sublime Text stores settings and packages in %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2 folder by default. Quick search did not reveal any way of forcing it use some other location. In order to sync the settings by using Dropbox, the files should obviously reside inside the Dropbox folder (eg c:usersjuhapDropbox)
The …
Encountered annoying MySQL problem when trying to dump database from a backup server.
The database had been originally dumped from production server, then imported into a backup server …
Loggly is a fairly new cloud base log management service. You can think about it as lightweight and hosted version of Splunk. I find it pretty interesting, especially because it provides pay-as-go licensing model which I believe suits better to SaaS business than Splunk's traditional licenses. I also love the …
Job postings are always the best way to glance to a future of company, aren't they? Maybe this reads as further evidence about the Linux future of Series 40.
According to the posting on Monster, Nokia is looking for (Senior) Linux SW Engineer to work with their mobile phones team …
Rumours are saying that Nokia's "Meltemi" project is about melting Linux and Series40 and adding some Qt magic in the process of doing it.
As you probably know, Series 40 is currently based on Nokia's proprietary operating system. To my knowledge it is completely inhouse developed. So far this has …
Red Hat is the latest company to join the big happy cloud provider family and they have interesting stuff to bring. OpenShift is a "portfolio of cloud services for deploying and managing applications in the cloud". Basically with OpenShift tools you can easily deploy for example JavaEE applications to Amazon …
Think about how the cloud changed the way startups were run when we went from 20th centure Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. During the dot-com boom it was all amount of money and big hardware. Success started with $1M set of Sun hardware. Then came the cloud and …
Zendesk provides a very nice JIRA integration widget that allows creating JIRA cases directly from Zendesk and keeps them in sync.
The widget however is missing some features. It only supports setting values for certain fields on the JIRA ticket. In our case this was a problem, since for certain …
For security and other reasons browsers put limitations on what sites you can access from the Javascript. The basic rule is: if the web page containing the script originates form mysite.com, then the script is only allowed to access mysite.com.
New Firefox and Chrome versions allow the server …
This is exactly what the world was waiting for! Amazon published Beanstalk, their first PaaS offering. Beanstalk allows customer to easily deploy standard Java web apps to AWS cloud.
Beanstalk builds on top of Amazons existing services. The applications run on Tomcat, which itself runs on EC2 virtual machine instance …
In my quest to free my collegues from unnecessary passwords, I created a simple web application for integrating Zendesk to Atlassian Crowd.
The webapp (well, it is just one JSP page actually) takes care of authenticating the users with Crowd and then passes this information to Zendesk. It also supports …
Few interesting v7 related things.
Nulls are not created equal - except in Jasper. In somes cases you want to do grouping on the report based on some field that might also contain null values. Jasper treats these null values as equal, meaning that they go to the same group. This means you only get one …
Making a band stretch according to the height of its contents is simple. First you need to have some content that is stretching, for example a text field with "stretch with overflow" property set to true.
For the band you need to set "split type" to stretch. Also make sure …
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