Current plans for contact-tracing are based around mobile phones, because these have built-in capabilities for location tracking and contact detection. An alternative to mobile phones for contact-tracing would be a… Read more »
As our team was designing and implementing an open API for COVID-19 contact-tracing, we also created a smartphone app to demonstrate how fully-anonymised automated contact-tracing can be done with a… Read more »
As I have just joined the team at Armstrong Consulting, I was encouraged to explore the capabilities of Solr within a Docker container and research ways to index existing data… Read more »
To familiarize ourselves with all the technologies we will be using day-to-day, we wanted to create an application using as many of them as possible as an exercise. In this post we are going to outline the steps to recreate that application.
This blog was running on WordPress on a dedicated Ubuntu 14.04 VM host. When I tried to update the host to Ubuntu 16.04, I broke WordPress. Rather than trying to… Read more »
The VMWare Clarity Design System documentation is a bit vague about how modal dialogs should be handled. The examples presented are not really appropriate for real-world applications, where dialogs need… Read more »
I was looking for a simple way to use Let’s Encrypt to enable https for a web site and I found a Docker image nmarus/docker-haproxy-certbot which met my needs. Remember, Let’s Encrypt… Read more »
We’ve been using the free ESXi ghettoVCB backup utility for the last 5 years to backup about 150 VMs daily without a glitch. ghettoVCB snapshots the VM, copies away the… Read more »
Borg backup (https://github.com/borgbackup) is an open source backup tool which, in addition to the usual backup features like strong client-side encryption and compression, has several important characteristics which make it… Read more »