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This post looks at handy ancillary servers that I find myself using to support my day-to-day software development tasks. What do I mean by ancillary server In this context, it's an internet-connecte...

pip install pgcli mycli These are replacements for the standard mysql and postgresql command line clients. This is appealing because it provides a (somewhat) consistent end user experience to these da...

A quick post to share a great tool I came across. It's called inBucket and it provides a self hosted alternative to mailinator. The premise is that you can dynamically send emails to any address and c...

The fine folks at airbnb recently opensourced an amazing software product called caravel. It is a web-based data visualisation and dashboarding application. It looks amazing and I hope to share some o...

At work we made the tough decision to get rid of Shibboleth 3 as our identity provider. We had encountered some pretty horrific performance issues with Shib3 (which we tried resolving - and sought ass...