After one client was notified that her passwords were found in a data leak and may compromise the accounts from her iPhone: Compromised... Some of your passwords have appeared in a data leak, putting those accounts at high risk of compromise. iPhone can help... It turns out, other than the password was to easy to guess, it was also due to password reuse. Of course the immediate … [Read more...]
How to Fix Failed to Decrypt Protected XML Node Error in SSIS
One morning, you discovered your SSIS package failed to run with the following error message: This is typically caused by a simple setting that is too often overlooked during deployment. In general, you do not want to save any connection ID and password in your package so you can inject the value from variables that you store either in a database or if you use a Package Deployment Model, … [Read more...]
Basic Configuration in Git
After installing Git, you may want to do some basic configuration so you can have a proper versioning history and collaborate with others in a shared repository. First thing, you want to do before anything is to set your name and email. You can open Git Bash on Windows or Terminal for macOS. Replacing the First, Last and email address with your own, type the following: This will be … [Read more...]
How to Install Git
This may be a very basic topic, but it turned out to be very useful for people who are just starting to delve into version control software. Just a quick overview from Pro Git book by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub that you can download from the link at the bottom of this post, this would give you a clearer explanation on why you should use it. What is “version control”, and why should you … [Read more...]
How to Add Comma to Each Line Using Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text
Sometimes the simplest thing is really taken for granted and we take the long route to do the simplest thing. We received a CSV with thousands of ID numbers that will be used to update a database table. The data would look like the following: The goal is just to add a comma at the end of each line so it can be used to update data in a database table. In the past, we would probably … [Read more...]