VCF File Validation
This script was bourne of necessity to validate VCF files for injestion into Congenica. The platform does it’s own validation but the output in case of error is not…
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Software & Tools
Articles from the portfolio and blog.
Kubespray Dependencies
Anyone who has worked witk Kubespray knows what kind of hell it is to figure out the dependencies. Part of the reason for this is that each version is kept on a seperate branch,…
Read moreMapping Food & Drinks Venues with Foursquare API
I was given a brief to extract data from Foursquare to identify the nearest food and drinks venues within 1000 meters latitude and longitude provided in an Excel sheet for a…
Read moreUsing the BMC Discovery API
This is a course I designed and developed offered by Traversys hosted on Udemy. Similar to the TPL Crash Course, I sensed there was a demand to understand how to use the API from…
Read moreTPL Crash Course
I designed and developed a TPL Crash Course for BMC Discovery which still has active sign ups. BMC Discovery is an Asset Management tool which most people have never heard of but…
Read moreDisco Enhancements
This is another project created for Traversys which aimed to make use of BMC Discovery easier by making useful changes to the Discovery UI via a browser extension for Chrome and…
Read moregetCert CE
This is the Community Edition of getCert which is free and open source to download and use with BMC Discovery. This is managed and provided by Traversys.…
Read moreTPL Repo
A reposity of free and open source TPL code for some more obscure applications and use cases. Developed by me but forked and expanded by Traversys.…
Read moreTideway
An I developed in Python for Traversys which simplifies usage of the BMC Discovery API. This is no longer being actively developed since we’ve moved away from working on…
Read morePasta
A small app for working with remote environments (such as Citrix) where copy and paste functionality has been disabled. Pasta uses modules like pyautogui and keyboard to read the…
Read moreWhenWasThat
This is a small script using Python Pandas that takes a date input and can tell how exactly how long ago the event took place in human readable syntax.…
Read moreIP and Subnet Mapper
This is a useful little CLI tool written in Python that will take a given CIDR syntax and convert it to IPs or list of IP addresses and convert to CIDR range. It can also take a…
Read moreSelf-Destruct
A script written in Python which is designed to self-destruct on execution, unless a date-based key is provided (generated with the generate_key script). Works on Linux or…
Read moreDISMAL
Toolkit built for use with BMC Discovery written in Python. Can do a number of powerful reports and modifications with both API and CLI (appliance) based commands.…
Read moreSpooning with Pentaho Data Integrator
Pentaho Data Integrator is a neat open source, cross-platform tool for making light work of ETL. I have it set up on my Ubuntu laptop and can run it directly from the command…
Read moreConverting Duel Boot Windows 7 Partition to a VM
I recently got a new replacement work laptop with Windows 7 installed. Despite the great desire to shrink it and put a more mature and stable OS on to use, I decided to give Win 7…
Read moreVMware Image Quick Fix
Recently I had a virtual machine set to use 2gb ram which I was trying to run in VMware Player on my work laptop which also has 2gb phyiscal memory. I don’t have the full…
Read moreCurious Problem with Cork City Locale Geocaching Pocket Query
If you’re a premium member with Groundspeak’s geocaching.com then you will be aware of the ability to create pocket queries. These are really useful for throwing up to 1000…
Read moreFixing A Bricked Garmin GPSmap 60CSx (Part 2)
In Part 1 I explained how my Garmin 60CSx booted up with a completely blank screen and doing a firmware update didn’t work – despite the update being successful. Now I’m going to…
Read moreFixing A Bricked Garmin GPSmap 60CSx (Part 1)
Last week I had a minor panic attack and bout of depression. After coming back from one of the 10 Year Lost and Found Geocaching events late at night, I dropped my Garmin GPSmap…
Read moreHeadless Recovery with Persistent Ubuntu Live USB
As some of you know, recently my Samsung NC10 netbook screen was smashed in an unfortunate accident. I have since replaced this with the excellent Sammy N210 but was at a loss…
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