aws-sts takes the marginally-useful JSON output from the aws sts command and generates shell code that can be fed into eval.
Useful for those of use with MFA enabled on our accounts. In an MFA CLI environment, your ACCESS_KEY_ID…
Running VisualVM on MacOS
As of writing, VisualVM 1.4.2 is the newest version of VVM available. This doesn’t currently run against Java 12, and will bomb with an error dialogue if you try.
If you’ve installed Java 12 on Mac, it will be the …
Google Calendar Sync for IOS Devices
It always takes me ages to figure out the right incantation to give to Google to find this:
Multitail – Keyboard Commands
Caution: Unsupported. It looks like Multitail, while still available in many distributions, is no longer supported by its author.
The excellent Multitail can watch (and highlight, and search, etc.etc.) several files at once. It’s a really useful tool for …
AWS Kinesis – Shard Splitting – Calculate Fulcrum
When you split a shard in Kinesis, the AWS CLI tool wants to know where you want the hash key fulcrum of the split to be. Then it closes down the old shard, and creates two new shards whose …
AWS Elastic Beanstalk – Pitfalls
It’s pretty easy to get lost in the immense product palette offered by Amazon Web Services. There’s everything from bare-bones virtual machines (EC2) through fast database provisioning (RDS) to Machine Learning (AML). For any given requirement, you’re probably going …
boot2docker and insecure registries
If Docker, running under OS X via boot2docker, won’t connect to an insecure docker registry, here’s how to fix that.
https://coderwall.com/p/zafv9g/use-private-docker-registry-in-os-x…
Better Bash Scripting in 15 Minutes
I haven’t tried how much of this also works in zsh, I’m guessing a lot. Some really good stuff here.
Java debug options
Given that I have to apply these options on a very regular basis, I’d know them by heart. Nope.
-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8000
Suspend can be set to “y” if you need to get the debugger attached before anything runs. Tomcat allows this …
Mac OS X Snow Leopard Has No Java 5 – Warning!
Here’s one I spent a day learning: OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” has no Java 5 installed, despite appearances to the contrary.
The Java 1.5 installation is actually a symbolic link to the Java 1.6 installation. There is a fix …