Tuesday, June 2, 2015

SImple Spider New Oracle DB Tutorial Series

I’ve started writing a new database tutorial series. I should be complete with the first tutorial in the next few days. The first tutorial shows a beginning user how to install Oracle database 11g on Linux 7. These series includes instructions for the virtual system, database, dns server, a separate file server, and a public repo all using Oracle Linux software. This new tutorial will replace outdated tutorials provided on several of my other sites, both here and on sa-oracle.snapdedo.com, and oracle.snapdedo.com. This tutorial will only be the first training guide so it will not include oracle features such as asm and grid infrastructure. The 2nd addition in this series will include additional software components. Follow the first Oracle Database Tutorial here.

Blogger search box functionality broke work around.

While testing my web pages on blogger I recently noticed to my surprise that my searches where coming back “No Result” using the standard blogger search box plugin. This surprised me since it was clear the items I was searching for existed on my site.
See  below a quick search of my blog returns “No Results” yet there the word is right in the title.
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Although this does not seem to be the first time this has happened it does not look like there is a solution is sight. It seems this has been broken before and fixed and is once again broken.
Luckily there is a workaround it is not quite as nice as the built in search functionality but it works for me.
1. Choose add a gadget where ever you want the search box to display
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2. Find the HTML/Javascript box, and choose Add (+)
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3. Enter the following code and save.
<form action="/search" name="input" method="get">
<input value=" " name="q" size="20" type="text"/>
<input value="Search!" type="submit"/>
</form>
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Not quite as nice as the default search so I’ll keep watching for a fix, but for now at least I have some level of search available.
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Google (Blogger) Windows Live Writer Working Again

After a full week off downtime, Google has finally fixed the issue which was blocking so many Blogger users from uploading posts through Windows Live Writer. No update has been received as to what exactly they did to resolve the problem, but it is clear that only Google made a change no update was required on Windows Live Writer. My guess is they reenabled ClientLogin and OAuth on their servers.
For how long can we expect Google to accept the old less secure communications. Google announced the deprecation of these components as early as 2012. In April Google made it very clear that they were going to shutdown ClientLogin and similar components, but Microsoft is no longer maintain Windows Live Writer. Will Microsoft open source this product or apply a new patch set for it’s legacy users is still unknown.
We can say that this is was a Google issue, but the reality is that we can not expect the software giant to not secure its apps, instead we should expect that it delivers secure communications. What would be nice is if Google’s giant development team could support the effort of building a strong blog editing client, or updating a couple of the most popular ones since it’s own editing tool has never had any popularity. Google could try to force users down the path of using the tool, but the tool is slow and clumsy even though it has the features required to post blogs.
Let’s hope for an update both from Microsoft, Zoundry and a few other of the popular editing tools.

Monday, June 1, 2015

Windows Live Writer Blogger Bug Work Around 3

Almost a week after Google updated app security Windows Live Writer is still not connecting correctly to Blogger. Every other Windows base blog editor is still failing also. There are signs that the Google and Microsoft are working together to solve this issue, but unfortunately the fixes do not include posts with images and many users are still having issues posting in general. At this time I can post without images but as soon as I add images my posts fail with the same error. I have posted two work arounds already but yesterday a reader gave me the ultimate work around. This workaround works well but has many steps to get set up. Hopefully a solution is found soon but if your one of the user who can’t wait in hope for a solution follow along below for a solution that will allow you to publish with Windows Live Writer to Blogger and still maintain images and hyperlinks.
Note this workaround includes creating free accounts with WordPress and a service called ITFFF. We will not be using WordPress for our blog just to hold the content while ITFFF pushes it to blogger.
I have completed several very complex posts using this method and all features worked as expected.

Remember this set up is fairly lengthy but once this is working it will save you a lot of time.
Step 1. Create a Free WordPress account. (Again this is not moving to WordPress we will just use WordPress to hold the content while it moves to Blogger).WordPress Sign Up
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Create a new Account, Choose No thanks I’ll use the free address.
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You’ll notice a create blog lower on the screen now.
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Take the steps to create a blog, None of the information matters you’ll just need the username and password to connect to Blogger.
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Again none of the options matter you will be using WordPress to hold the posts only.
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Step 2. Login in to the email account that you used to create your WordPress account and verify your account you will have received an email from WordPress.com. Click the verify link.
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Step 3. Create an IFTTT.com account. This is a service that can copy blogs from WordPress to Blogger.com
IFTTT.COM
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Step 4. Log in to the email account used to create ITFFF.com account and confirm your email.
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Step 5. Tell ITFFF.com to move posts from WordPress to your Blogger account.
Choose Browse to find your rule to move the posts.
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In the search in the middle of the page type “Wordpress Blogger” and choose Search.
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Click the WordPress to Blogger icon
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Here’s were we’ll connect our channels
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Do WordPress Connect first
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Connect Your blogger account next
If your already signed into to Google it will not ask for your blogger username and password if not you’ll need to enter it.
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I now have a job that will move my WordPress posts to blogger if I click the run button.
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Step 6. Last step I now just need to tell Windows Live Write to post to my WordPress account. This is very simple.
In Windows Live Write Choose Manage Blogs.
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Choose Add
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Choose WordPress
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Enter the WordPress info you created in previous steps username password and url.
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Choose no to the theme we don’t care about the wordpress theme.
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Give this new blog a name that’s easy to remember so when this is fixed we can remove it.
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Step 7. Close Windows Live Writer and open it again to see your new blog settings.
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Step 8. Publish to the WordPress account. Click Publish
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Step 9. Wait a few minutes then sign into ITFFF.com and push the run move job button. Under My recipes.
I don’t know how quickly this will run on it’s own but you can make it automatic by clicking the run button.
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This should run pretty fast I created this post with atleast 15 images and it only took a few minutes for me to see it in Blogger

Let me know your experiences or if there is something I can improve on this how to guide.


 




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Windows Live Writer and Blogger still fail with images

After almost a week of waiting today a fix finally came for the Windows Live Writer and Blogger issue, unfortunately this fix was not a complete fix and for many users almost worthless. To the joy of many users a notice was sent that these two applications were once again talking to each other. After a quick test post I to was happy. Surprise after trying to publish a full post I found the reality was only a partial fix. Any posts with images instantly failed with either the notfound error or the username error once again. This does give me hope through that Google and Microsoft are working together to resolve this issue. In the meantime I will be doing a work around three thanks to a commenter on one of my posts that will allow for both content, images and hyperlinks to all show up in blogger while using windows Live writer. It takes a little work initially but once set up it works amazingly. Watch for Work Around 3 post some time later this evening, if the fix does not come out sooner.

JXplorer Searching Your AD Repo

JXplorer is a simple tool to work with Ldap or Active Directory Servers. If you are a developer like me you may have come across the need to test ldap connectivity with your application. Being able to see your ldap information and understand what truly is listed for the testing user is important. JXplorer is an excellent tool for Windows to allow you to view users and their current configuration. Here you can check if a user is in an expected group and shorten your work time researching failures that are truly based on account configuration.
Here’s a quick example of how to do a quick test to verify a users configuration against a Windows Active Directory Server.
Why is this helpful? If your on a team were development is separate from Active Directory Management you may lack the tools to see your AD repository. At the same time you may be required to configure your application or users based on their Active Directory configuration. Although you may have requested a specific configuration from the team that supports AD you may find that this configuration is not what you were looking for or was misconfigured. As a developer you can spend hours researching and troubleshooting applications that had no issue other then a misconfiguration in the AD settings for an individual user or a whole team.There are many tools to search AD configuration, some of these tools are command line and cumbersome to learn. JXplorer is a graphical tool that is quick to learn for the average developer and takes almost no AD experience to understand.
1. Download & Install JXplorer
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This is a standard windows install so no real explanation needed here.
2. Start JXplorer in “Start,Programs”
Create a new connection.

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Enter your Active Directory Connection Information
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Choose to save this as a template to speed up entry in the future.image
4. Run a search from JXplorer, Change fields you want to search from from address, to name or additional fields, change operator type to like or exact match and enter your search criteria.SNAGHTML127a00b
Change the view to see all information by choosing the “Simple.html” formatSNAGHTML129790b
5. From the simple.html view you can scroll down to see User Account information, such as SamAccount info or Groups for the user.
There’s many other things you can do with JXplorer but basic look ups are a good place to start with a developer to help troubleshoot configuration issues.
Good Luck



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