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Even using pull mode for Powershell DSC, it doesn't seem there's an easy way to visualise which machines are in which states and which machines are in the process of correcting themselves to the desired state (i.e. still installing stuff / rebooting).
I feel like I'm missing something. Is some website meant to go over the top and provide this visibility? Please tell me someone has plugged this gap already - it's been over a year now. We could start building from this point but I was hoping something was already in this space?
I've had a look at guardrail and while it seems a pretty cool product, it doesn't focus on the orchestration side of deployment.
This is about as specific as I can make this question - I know a lot of other people are keen to hear your answers to this. Please don't mark it as vague or subjective right away :-)
You're not alone and you're not missing anything. There's no GUI for this right now (there's barely a not-GUI).
Did you deploy a DSC Compliance Server along with the pull server?
If so, you can query it to retrieve useful information. There is no dashboard or interface for it at this time.
There may be third party products available but I'm not aware of any. Powershell v5 is supposed to have a lot of improvements to DSC so it may be worth waiting.
Since Chef can use DSC resources (and it seems Puppet support is here or on its way), many people may choose to go with one of those since the tooling is much more mature.
Further Reading
Powershell.org - DSC Compliance Server: What's the Deal?
How to retrieve node information from DSC pull server
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Our company is considering connecting Ceridian Dayforce HR management system with our product.
Now I was asked to estimate required time and effort it would require to do so. The problem is, I can't find documentation source for the API. Dayforce seem to provide an API, for example they have this article that seem to state they support API integration, but data sheet itself is one page size and written in purely non-technical way.
I am wondering: is there any public source of such documentation? If there is none, does this mean that there is no API available or that documentation is only provided to developer once they finish approvement process of some kind?
There is indeed an API. Integration can be performed using SOAP or REST.
You will need to request from Ceridian that they create a test instance for you. After this, it's a good idea to ask for assistance in creating a user role for the purposes of accessing web services. I had some serious pitfalls in this process since it is not reasonable to ask your own HR staff (who likely only use the front end) to know how to do this for you. Ask Ceridian's support team instead.
I have been working on this for about two weeks. I have successfully performed GET and PATCH requests (both using Postman and in code) but creating a new employee with POST is not as straightforward as the documentation makes it out to be. There seem to be many snags along the way and Ceridian is not very cooperative in providing clear explanations when problems occur (they don't really provide any support on these things, and they make this fairly clear in their documentation). Their support staff are not really development people, so their knowledge in this domain is likely limited as can be expected.
With that said, I can say that the documentation may seem to be detailed, but be aware that the detail ends after the 'happy path' cases are outlined.
You need to contact your account manager at Ceridian to get details. They do have detailed documentation, just not freely available.
Dayforce is introducing Restful web services in their new realease 53. If that helps.
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I want to send newsletter with cakephp.
Which plugin is good for it?
cakeresque,
CakePHP Queue Plugin,
CakePHP Email Queue plugin,
or etc ...
First off: How to Ask.
Moving on to the answer, I really need more context with your problem. Is this for a business? Professional? Are there any circumstances that might make you favor one over the other?
Without knowing any context, I'd scratch off the Queue plugin. It is pushing for minimalistic, but it doesn't sound like that is what you want. On the other end, CakeResque seems a bit overkill, and may be too much for your needs. Email Queue plugin seems simple enough to get the job done, but it hasn't been updated in two years, which could potentially cause problems if you aren't careful. (Sorry if this seems like common knowledge to you, but I have no context on how experienced you are.)
It really depends on what you like more. CakeResque is probably a safe bet, as it seems updated and you will find a lot more support than you might on the open source projects, but I prefer the last one, Email Queue plugin, as it is simple and gets it done fine.
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I have been evaluating DNN over a few months. It has it´s pros and cons. I find it hard to evaluate systems by reading articles and don´t have time to check them all on my own.
What are your general feeling about this?
As my background is with .net, which system would you choose?
Also, does anybody know if these pages at stack overflow is based on a CMS and if so which?
Since everyone would rather spend more time criticizing your post than answering it, I'll give it a shot.
You have a few options with building a portal. Either go with an established, open source portal (like DNN), look into some paid solutions or build your own.
Open Source - I've worked with DNN and MojoPortal. DNN is a little slower and has a few more requirements to develop skins and modules, but it has A LOT more features and some of the free/paid modules are really cool. Overall, DNN wins here, but if you don't need a large portal and you want to keep development really simple, MojoPortal might be better. MojoPortal has a few nice features that makes it easier to configure.
Open Source (Other) - There are tons of them out there. Orchard is one I'm thinking of because I'm interested in MVC. But, it's still young in terms of features and support.
Umbraco - I can't really speak to this because I have not used it, but it does have some popularity.
Build it - This is an option and allows the most flexibility, but it takes a lot of time and so many features that are built into these portals could be left out. Role based access, page management, page/module permissions, downloadable modules, profile/profile properties, file management, skinning, acct management, menu management, event logs, etc
I left out non .NET solutions like ones based on PHP, Grails, etc because you are a .NET developer. There is plenty out there, but sticking to .NET will help speed your development up.... unless you are just wanting to learn something new.
Hope this helps.
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I am looking for some tool or service that can be used to track arbitrary events in web based software, for the purpose of running A/B tests and measuring various other things. I am aware of Optimizely, but that seems only suitable for testing simple things in normal websites and Google Analytics is not really suitable for this type of things and there is a lot of hassle when you want to track events from the backend and link them with a user's session in GA.
An ideal solution would be some service accepting HTTP GET requests with arbitrary parameters and then letting users do queries in an SQL-like language. I have many times put together some less scalable solution with MySQL or a less flexible one that stores everything in text files and processed and aggregated them separately into desired format. But building a both flexible and scalable version would require a lot more time and I guess there are already good solutions out there. Does anyone know of any?
Other requirements are:
It must be possible to do both back-end and front-end requests.
It must be possible to do use it in widgets, running on other peoples' websites
It would be nice if it could automatically create readable reports with maybe some diagrams, etc.
If anyone has any experience with this kind of tools, I would be very glad to hear your thoughts.
Thanks for your help.
Have you tried mixpanel? We've found it quite flexible and powerful.
https://mixpanel.com/
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My shop is trying to formalize the release management process for an OSS product we maintain (edit: using SVN for version control). It's a sort of a web development framework/CMS kind of thing, as in it's a product that other projects are built on top of. This makes clear communication about the versioning system especially critical for developers that are using the tool.
I'm hoping to find some examples of how best to graph this system so we can communicate it better internally and with outside developers. I know there are lots of standards and best practices around versioning, so I'm hoping this extends to some sort of visual vocabulary as well. As one example, there is a nifty graph at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning#Software_Versioning_schemes. Are there any guides out there on how these sorts of things should be designed?
First, if it is an OSS project, chances are the versioning system ism a Distributed one (DVCS)
If so, then this branching model can be of interest.
The idea is to control what you want to integrate from remote repos.
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I need this too. The built-in graph in Tortoise SVN is too busy, but I've made use of it. But for soemthing like VonC's picture above, I think I'm going to go with a dry erase board and colored markers. I'll hang it outside my cube. Annotate it with revs, dates, sprints and projects, and we'll be all set.