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- Referral codes, sharing the love! - 13 May 2019 There are a few great services I’ve been using a lot, and sharing with friends and colleagues. So I thought I’d post my referral links here too, so you check them out and benefit from my referral links! Here are my codes: Monzo The first service I’d like to recommend is Monzo. Monzo is a great banking app (currently only in the UK) that gives you instant spending updates, budget...
- WhereIs - A Slack command to help you locate people - 24 Sep 2018 After it was announced that we would be moving away from HipChat to Slack at my company, I decided it would be a good time to learn how to create a Slack ‘slash command’ and at the same time use the Serverless Framework to automate a lot of the setup. So I created a command /whereis that uses the Cisco Prime Infrastructure API to grab the location of a user...
- Java Cheat Sheet - 02 Jun 2017 Some notes I made for the Open University M250 Object-oriented Java programming course. Includes bits of code for the fundamentals of Java. Start a Class public class Example { Start a Constructor public Example() { Get Character at particular location variable.charAt(0); Example of: -Message variable = person.getInitials(); person.printReverse(); -Reference Variable Declaration Person friend; String name; -Primitive Variable Declaration int example = 5; char letter = a; -String Creation example =...
- Automatically update Chrome via Jamf Pro - 08 Mar 2017 It’s always good to be up-to-date, especially with vulnerabilities being publicised on a regular basis, and people like the CIA and NSA hacking everything. It will keep your InfoSec team happy too! Updating apps in Jamf Pro isn’t the easiest thing to do (at least until version 10 is released, with Patch Management built in!). So I wanted to find a way to automate it. Yes, Chrome should automatically update...
- How to post to HipChat from AWS Lambda - 29 Jan 2017 At first, I investigated using a bot to post to HipChat (GitHub’s Hubot) but it seemed a little overkill. It had many features that I didn’t need, and had to be run on a server 24/7. I did run it using Heroku so it didn’t cost anything, but it was a bit too clunky. So instead, I started looking for other ways to achieve this, Amazon Web Services’ Lambda looked...
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