Max Cascone mcascone

Python Zeep SOAP Client

First, we'll look at the SOAP URL and see what Prefixes, Global Elements, Global Types, Bindings, and Services are provided by the SOAP Service.

You can do this by running zeep as a CLI tool.

export WSDL_URL="http://www.dneonline.com/calculator.asmx?WSDL"
python -m zeep $WSDL_URL

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real


	# Update to Latest Windows 10 Spring Refresh

	# Install WSL
	Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

	# Get Ubuntu installed - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server
	wsl.exe

	# Install ChefDK deb package

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Automatically adds Jira key to commit message
	#

	if [ -z "$BRANCHES_TO_SKIP" ]; then
	BRANCHES_TO_SKIP=(master develop)
	fi

	BRANCH_NAME=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)

	<#Simple comparison of a serial foreach loop versus a parallel foreach loop
	When run on my workstation with $NumberOfIterations=50 this was my output:
	elapsed time (serial foreach loop): 20.2380236
	elapsed time (parallel foreach loop): 9.7779777
	Simply copy and paste into Powershell ISE and hit F5 (needs Powershell v3 or above)
	Jamie Thomson, 2014-12-09
	#>
	workflow workflow1{
	Param($NumberofIterations)
	"======================================================="

	# knife cheat

	## Search Examples

	knife search "name:ip*"
	knife search "platform:ubuntu*"
	knife search "platform:*" -a macaddress
	knife search "platform:ubuntu*" -a uptime
	knife search "platform:ubuntu*" -a virtualization.system
	knife search "platform:ubuntu*" -a network.default_gateway

	file_to_disk = './tmp/large_disk.vdi'

	Vagrant::Config.run do \|config\|
	config.vm.box = 'base'

	config.vm.customize ['createhd', '--filename', file_to_disk, '--size', 500 * 1024]
	config.vm.customize ['storageattach', :id, '--storagectl', 'SATA Controller', '--port', 1, '--device', 0, '--type', 'hdd', '--medium', file_to_disk]
	end

	# -- Conf --
	[color]
	branch = auto
	diff = auto
	status = auto
	showbranch = auto
	ui = true

	# color.branch
	# A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or