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Sam Kenny
Jan 13, 2016

Getting Ad Insights from Facebook — and avoiding error 17

At untapt measuring the success of our marketing campaigns across social media is important — to us and our clients. If we are going to put dollars into a campaign to find the best tech talent around the world, we need to know…

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Sam Kenny
Jan 11, 2014

Node.JS and Heroku

I am following Node:Up and Running to learn about Node.JS and extending what I have gleaned from this book, and learned on the excellent Javascript courses at O’Reilly School of Technology, so that I can deploy the book example apps on a Heroku dyno. I like the way the book is written, but…

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Sam Kenny
Jan 3, 2014

Lego Digital Designer

The Lego Digital Designer is an awesome tool for designing a new creation on your computer and creating a build guide. You can then use the Lego Pick a Brick site to buy all the bricks you need. A Raspberry Pi case can be put together for ~$20.

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Sam Kenny
Dec 30, 2013

Raspberry Pi useful links and notes

Links

  • http://www.howtogeek.com/138281/the-htg-guide-to-getting-started-with-raspberry-pi/all/
  • http://www.instructables.com/id/Lego-Raspberry-Pi-Case/
  • http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/arduino-v…
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Sam Kenny
Dec 20, 2013

Setting up Heroku, Flask and Python on a Windows 7 PC

Following the steps on the Heroku site for getting started with python guide I ran into a few issue-ettes. Below are some scrappy notes that could be used to accompany the guide if you run into the same issues that I did.

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Sam Kenny
Nov 4, 2013

HTML, CSS and javascript Useful Links

HTML and CSS Validator Pages

  • http://validator.w3.org/
  • http://www.css-validator.org/

Colors ’n’ stuff

  • http://www.drpeterjones.com/colo…
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Sam Kenny
Oct 18, 2013

vCheck — VMWare Daily Report

vCheck is a series of scripts (or plug-ins) written by Alan Renouf that can be used to report on the status of your VMWare environment. It can be run from VMWare’s Powershell.

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Sam Kenny
Sep 30, 2013

WrightCCS is a viable alternative to RSA for dual authentication

Now that RSA cannot even be trusted, it might be time to look at alternative dual authentication options. One that we have had success with at C12 is WrightCSS. WrightCSS is a member of the Citrix Partner program and…

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Sam Kenny
Aug 12, 2013

Use Microsoft Log Parser for trolling through the Event Viewer

Sifting through the thousands of entries in a server’s local Security Event log for a specific message can be a very time consuming experience.

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Sam Kenny
Jul 22, 2013

Sending SMS messages using Twilio

Twilio provides an API and platform that can send SMS texts, and text-to-voice messages, and costs very little to use.

Some 3rd party vendors already have hooks into Twilio — e.g. WrightCCS for two-factor authentication. If you want to roll your…

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