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Creating a Windows 7 demonstration environment using an Intel Core i5 NUC

A different topic for this blog: infrastructure. I’ve written a couple of blogs about consuming Broadsoft XSI events on C# and I’ve had a couple of developers asking me to demonstrate what I’ve build. I actually showed the software on my development desktop but that didn’t feel right, so I looked for options and found plenty. I decided to go for a self-hosted environment using an Intel Core i5 NUC running Debian 8 Continue reading Creating a Windows 7 demonstration environment using an Intel Core i5 NUC

Scripted changing of XML files made easy

Changing the content of a configuration file on an Unix system, like Linux, can be easy. That task quickly becomes a whole different ballgame when you’re dealing with XML files, because this format imposes a couple of restrictions on the XML element values, for instance. You’ll probably be able to get the job done when using traditional tools like sed and awk, but I would advise against it. Continue reading Scripted changing of XML files made easy