October 2022 Archives

October 26, 2022
By Teodor Talov
JavaScript,Laravel,PHP

A practical approach to QA

Stratified mix of automated and functional testing Our approach to improving QA is a stratified mix of automated and functional testing. Having close to 100% code coverage by automated tests is hard to achieve and harder to manage, it is important to note that automated tests themselves do not guarantee any sort of regression mitigation, […]

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October 21, 2022
By Teodor Talov
PHP

Configure Google Workspace as Identity Provider for SimpleSAMLphp

SimpleSAMLphp Service Provider Configuration The following technical brief provides step by step instructions how to add a new Service Provider to SimpleSAMLphp (version as of this writing is 2.0.0) and leverage Google Workspace as Identity Provider (login provider). First, you should install and be able to run SimpleSAMLphp. If you don’t have it yet running, […]

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October 20, 2022
By Teodor Talov
DevOps,Docker,PHP

SimpleSAMLphp and Docker Step by Step Technical Notes

Run SimpleSAMLphp using Docker SimpleSAMLphp is a great application with stellar reputation, pretty much the only game in town in the PHP world. However, documentation lacks examples and it is quite technical. The notes below will provide much needed context and example as to how to run SimpleSAMLphp with Docker. Download source code First thing […]

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October 13, 2022
By Teodor Talov
Android

Android TV with Flutter – Automatically launch on boot

Launching a flutter app automatically at device start up is no different from launching any Android app written in either Kotlin or Java. 2-Step instructions how to launch your Flutter TV app on launch It is really fairly simple to achieve that. There are only 2 steps involved in the entire process, you should be […]

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October 2, 2022
By Teodor Talov
DevOps

Stop using the AWS key and secret on your EC2 instances

Using instance profiles is a better option for authenticating access to AWS resources. An instance profile is a unique IAM role associated with an EC2 instance at launch. This role allows the instance to access specific AWS resources and services

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