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jamesrwhite

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About jamesrwhite

Software Developer

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    Comment #46798056

    We seem to be having connectivity issues to S3 primarily in one AZ in eu-west-1

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    Comment #44262068

    Seems like a wider issue at Google than just GCP, the Sheets and Chat APIs are also returning similar "Visibility check was unavailable" errors.

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    Comment #35673749

    Apps Script is really powerful and often overlooked as a way to easily automate workflows that involves Google workspace apps. I’ve built an app similar to this example but that ta…

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    Comment #25703125

    Over the past year I've been working on Check Sheet in my spare time which is an add-on for Google Sheets. It lets you define rules or "checks" for your spreadsheet and will then s…

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    Comment #23166561

    Hi, developer behind Check Sheet here. Check Sheet is a free add-on for Google Sheets that adds the ability to define rules that will trigger an email notification when your spread…

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    Comment #17595644

    Has "Sable" been spoken about externally before? I found a few details about it on a LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kokamd/ . "Sable has been hugely successful in th…

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    Comment #15365400

    Thanks, I should have specified I meant in comparison to Lambda@Edge on CloudFront which this seems quite similar in terms of the use cases.

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    Comment #15365190

    Will there be any limits on memory/execution time etc like with AWS Lambda?

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    Comment #7601501

    Done! https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron/releases/tag/v0.5

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    Comment #7599494

    I just added SQlite support back into master, I'll add it into the next release :) https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron/pull/70

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    Comment #7599099

    Thanks for the info on rcron, it sounds like a really useful tool. I think I prefer the approach of rcron wrapping minicron so it doesn't require added complexity to minicron. I've…

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    Comment #7598639

    Sure, that's a pretty important bit to understand so I'll try and add some more information on that. Yeah, so to convert a cron that ran `ls` to use minicron you would change it to…

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    Comment #7598423

    1. Thanks, I put a lot of effort into the README :) 2. That was one of my aims really, cron is a great tool it's just missing a few things that hopefully this can fill. 3. I was th…

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    Comment #7598234

    Thanks, I look forward to it :) And that's great to hear because that's exactly why I made it!

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    Comment #7598221

    Thanks! I've looked into Chronos quite a bit actually, they have a lot of great ideas. I'm hoping to eventually offer something pretty similar but for people who don't want to ditc…

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    Comment #7598130

    I did have a look at what Jenkins offers plus if you're already using it for CI then that might be easier I agree. And thanks :)

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    Comment #7598041

    Yeah the crontab permissions are a bit of a pain and thanks :)

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    Comment #7598001

    Thanks! :) Edit: Yeah, so the CLI sends data over HTTP(s) to whatever host you configure it to, that could be public or not. As I've said in https://github.com/jamesrwhite/minicron…

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    Comment #7597947

    Hi Guys, I've been developing minicron as part of my dissertation at university and I'm at the stage now where I need to get as much feedback as possible so I can evaluate the succ…

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