Simple instruction on how to get messages from the archived mailbox (aka in-place archive) using Microsoft Graph API. You will learn how to use well-known folder names to access data in the exchange server mailboxes without using long and clumsy ids. Graph API is a powerful tool to query data from Office 365. Learn how to utilize its features and make your life simpler.
Xvfb: Run Selenium In Headless Mode With Any Browser
Xvfb is a simple program to redirect output to a virtual framebuffer. You can run any application in a headless mode, including Selenium, Chrome, and Firefox. This will help you run your Selenium test scenarios event on Raspberry Pi.
Install Samba Server on Raspberry Pi
This is a simple tutorial on how to install and configure a Samba server on Raspberry Pi. Any Debian-based distro is suitable for this tutorial, I am using Rasbian OS but it should also work with Ubuntu Core.
[Fix] Wrong Encoding When Reading JSON From MySQL
Due to a bug in .NET Connector for MySQL you might get JSON data in the wrong encoding. This article will show you how to fix this problem so you can read the data in the correct format.
[Fix] Error Code: 1175 You are using safe update mode
Explore an easy way to fix MySQL Error Code: 1175. You are using safe update mode and you tried to update a table without a WHERE that uses a KEY column. You can either disable it permanently or turn it off before executing an update/delete statements and turn it back on after. SET SQL_SAFE_UPDATES=0; will fix it for you, but be careful, you are not protected against DELETE FROM table statement anymore.
How to Make a Website Secure Again. Adding HSTS Response Header in NGINX
According to a Netcraft's study of the secured (SSL/TLS) sites they monitor, 95% of them are vulnerable to a simple man-in-the-middle attack because they didn't correctly implement HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), a widely-supported security feature that prevents unencrypted HTTP connections to a server. Let's see why it's happening and how we can make your website secure, again.
Logging to DataDog from Azure Function via Serilog
This article will show you how easy it is to log something to DataDog from Azure Function using a standard ILogger interface from Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions NuGet package.
How-to Fix "Http failure during parsing" Error
In my frontend application, I was making requests to the backend API, but in some cases, I was getting the following error: Http failure during parsing for http://localhost/api/get-data. If you are facing the same problem welcome on board! In this article you will see why this error is happening and how to fix it.
5 Simple Steps to Migrate Let's Encrypt Certificates (certbot) to a New Server
This guide is helpful for people who decided to migrate a website to another web server and have SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt. This article describes the process for Ubuntu 18.04 but can also be used for other Linux distros (maybe with some small changes).
[IoT] Connect Intel Galileo Gen 2 to Arduino Uno via nRF24L01
Guys from Newark element14 have sent me a nice dev board - Intel Galileo Gen2. I was curious because before, Microsoft declared that Windows 10 IoT Core will run on this board. I planned to run my previous benchmark on this board to see if it can beat Raspberry PI 2. Unfortunately, with the latest release they removed this board from the compatibility list :( But this is not a big problem because I have some plans about home automation and I can use this board in it. I have couple nRF24L01 modul...
Build and test ASP.NET 5 application using AppVeyor
For those who do not know, AppVeyor is Continuous Integration and Deployment service for .NET projects. It is free for open-source projects. Currently, AppVeyor supports latest DNX version (1.0.0-rc1-final) and I've recently migrated my pet project to this version. I will show you how easy it is to build and run all unit tests on CI server every time you commit to GitHub. Visual Studio project (MSBuild) In LearnWordsFast project we are using Visual Studio 2015 as a development environment, so in...
[BlueStacks] How to kill process after exit
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[ASP.NET 5] Production Ready Web Server on Linux. Kestrel + nginx
You can run ASP.NET 5 applications on Linux using kestrel web server. This is development web server, so it has limited functionality. But sometimes you need more functions, for example, https or virtual hosts support. Today we will see how to configure a system, so you can access your application through a domain name. First, you need ASP.NET 5 environment up and running. You can use my article to install and configure everything, but it's a bit outdated, so it's better to use official documen...
[How-to] Remove BlueStacks Ads (Sponsored Apps Popup)
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Migrate Wordpress site from OpenShift to VPS
For all my new sites, I'm using free OpenShift account. But it is not 100% stable. Now, I have 5 sites located on OpenShift, and at least once a week, I need to restart one of them (usually it's error 503). So, when number of visitors on sevennet.org exceeded 4000 per day I have decided to move this wordpress blog to my VPS. Here is a small instruction how to do that Prepare your VPS\VDS On your VPS you should have nginx\apache with php and mysql installed. I would recommend you to change apache...
[Fixed] [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'log_slow_verbosity=query_plan'
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How to connect to OpenShift with putty (ssh)
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How to check if AdBlock is enabled
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[How-to] Downgrade Nexus from 5.0 to 4.4
I have installed Android 5.0 on my Nexus 7 (2012, wi-fi) and that was the biggest mistake I have ever done with my tablet pc. I don't know, maybe the problem is not in Android Lollipop, but in my concrete device, but after installing 5.0 it becomes incredibly slow! First 5 minutes after restart it works fine, but then everything become soooo sloooow.... Here are some steps that can help you with downgrading your Nexus device (5 or 7) from 5.0 to 4.4 (or whatever you want). Download factory imag...
[Solution] Cacti + RRDTool. Graph not working problem fixed
If you have problems with graph in your Cacti first what you should do is enable debug mode in Cacti. To enable debug mode: Go to "Graph Management" Open any graph (Localhost - Load Average) Press "Turn On Graph Debug Mode." Now you should see something like this: RRDTool Command: /usr/bin/rrdtool graph - \ --imgformat=PNG \ --start=-86400 \ --end=-300 \ --title='Localhost - Load Average' \ --rigid \ --base=1000 \ --height=120 \ --width=500 \ --alt-autoscale-max \ --lower-limit=0 \ --u...
[How To] Automatically start a program when you turn on your computer
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