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DevOps

On Software Automation

It's been a while since I thought about writing about software automation, today is the day. Who knows me, knows that I like to automate most of the repetitive and time consuming tasks, this is specially true in the software development process, this leaves me with more time to get…

Posted on 15/07/201915/07/2019 by Nelson

Software Development

On Software Architecture

I have been thinking a lot lately about what is expected of a software architect, the name usually comes with the idea of someone who lives in an ivory tower, unreachable, isolated from the world, when architecture is needed for a project he will arrive, draw a bunch of UML…

Posted on 11/09/201815/07/2019 by Nelson

Kotlin

TerraState – Web backend for Terraform

It has been a while since I last posted something here, today I am back with an announcement, a new project relase. I am a huge fan of Terraform I have been using it for some years so far to mange infrastructure on AWS, I'm not going to dive into…

Posted on 16/08/201816/08/2018 by Nelson

Linux

External subwoofer on Asus G550JK on Linux

So I recently got an Asus G550JK, but it brought Windows 8.1 installed and I can't make myself like that interface, so I decided it was time to switch over to Linux for good. While I am a Gentoo fan I currently can't spend time doing a proper installation, after…

Posted on 23/11/201414/08/2018 by Nelson

Virtualization

Hyper-V Integration Services for Gentoo and an overlay

My main problem with using Hyper-V is the lack of support for most of the Linux distributions, and since Microsoft only supports some officially, I decided I had to get the integration services working properly on Gentoo, after a lot of research I found this overlay and it contains the sys-apps/hv_kvp_daemon…

Posted on 07/05/201423/07/2017 by Nelson

Android

Adding root CA certificates to android 2.2

Lately I have been doing some Android development, and I wanted to be able to use both of my Android smartphones an HTC Desire (Android 2.2), and a Padfone2 (Android 4.1.1) sounds easy right? Well it is, if you don't need to do HTTPS requests to your own server that…

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