Say you need to open a lot of URLs to see what they look like. Not in the mood for any more manual work, you prefer to automate the task? Let see how we can read a bunch of URL from an Excel file, load them in MSIE and take a screenshot of each of them. You’ll have more time to analyse the results.
How to run Android Java code from Tasker
When it comes to Automation in Android, there is no doubt that Tasker is the absolute king. Although I admit the UI is not fancy — at all, and the learning curve is quite harsh, Tasker has demonstrated being the most powerful app in the Automation space. One of the little know features…
Azure App Service Architecture (4): Scalability
Azure App Service scalability: How do they do it? We usually understand well what scalability is, but how is it achieved technically?
Azure App Service Architecture (3): App Service on Linux
Discover how Microsoft is leveraging Ubuntu and Docker to implement their new Azure PaaS offering: “App Service on Linux”.
Azure App Service Architecture (2)
This is the second post of a series, on Azure App Service Architecture. The first one introduced the concepts of App and Plan, what are the Pricing Tiers and Instance Sizes. This one will give some more details on how I understand the service plan are architected internally.
Azure App Service Architecture (1)
This is the first post of a series on Azure App Service Architecture. This one introduces the concepts of Apps, and Plans, what are the Pricing Tiers and Instance Sizes. The second post will give some more details on how I understand the service plan are architected. The 3rd post looks at how…
Offsite Linux backup to Mega with duplicity
This is about a small personal initiative: I was looking for a solution to backup some Linux servers that I have, at home and in the cloud. Ideally, my requirements were: Backup should be offsite, preferably in the cloud Solution should support some kind of backup policies (full, incremental, and…