SoapUI for DataPower 01: A Common Library Framework

Overview We all know that IBM DataPower is a very powerful edge platform for the deployment, management, protection, and execution of cloud and on-prem API’s. The most ubiquitous method of managing the appliances (and now instances) is the provided Web...

How To Use Drobo 5N/5N2 as a Git Server for Xcode

Introduction In this tutorial we will endeavor to set up our Drobo 5N (or 5N2) as a Git server. That is, the Drobo will host Remote Git Repositories for our local Xcode projects that are under Git source control. With this setup, we can work on our Xcode projects on...

SoapUI Tip 01: Meaningful Endpoints

soapUI | DataPower | SOMA | AMP | Endpoints If you’re like me and you also use IBM AMP / SOMA api’s to help manage DataPower IDG appliances, then this problem may sound familiar.  It seems like whenever I start working for a new client I run into this...

Iterate Through Soap Response Nodes in soapUI and Groovy

SoapUI | Test Step | Groovy | Soap Response | List | Nodes | Iteration Full confession: I am making another post out of frustration. Call it therapy. Why is it that quickly finding information or examples for seemingly simple things is sometimes so !@#$. For those not...

BASH 01: Trim Your Args!

Ideally I wanted to put this article in a category called “Stuff we all need to know but never get around to master” because, for me, that is squarely where the subject of shell scripting (BASH, SH, et. al.) firmly lived for way too long. As software...