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Police API Stop and Search lookup with Streamlit Following on from the quick API demo I built for the Vehicle Enquiry Service API, I wanted to revisit some work I’d previously done that used the UK Police Data API along with metabase and other technologies to help interrogate public policing data. Using the streamlit library […]
Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo The Goal To build a web based application that allows the retrieval of vehicle information from the UK DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service API and package that in a container for simplified distribution. A Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo if you like. I’m building this because I find it […]
PowerShell – Discover Secure boot enabled Hosts As sometimes happens someone from the community got in touch to ask me the question below. “I’m currently banging my head against the proverbial trying to understand the Get-EsxCli command. What I am after is a listing of Secure-boot Enabled or disabled against all are ESXi hosts using […]
VMware Powershell Get Network Usage Metrics I was asked how it might be possible to get network usage metrics for Virtual Machines that where hosted on older versions of the VMware ESXi hypervisor the other week. The request came about as the organization in question is looking to replace a platform and wants to get […]
What is the role of Robotic Process Automation in Digital Transformation? I was recently asked a few questions that got me thinking what is the role of Robotic Process Automation in Digital Transformation? So what prompted that? Well, I had the privilege of presenting globally to my VMware colleagues as part of the internal RADIO […]
More vSphere HealthCheck Remediation scripts If you follow this blog you’ll know that I like to keep track of useful snippets and scripts that can be used to fix any issues flagged during environment health checks. You can find other healthcheck remediation scripts to Disconnected connected CDs, Set DCUI and ESXi Shell interactive timeouts and […]
VMware PowerShell – How to Detect Thick Disks I was helping out someone today who needed to identify how to detect thick disks. They wanted to find out what disks on their VMware vSAN storage had been provisioned as ‘thick’. They’d been working to a standard where everything should have been deployed as a ‘thin’ […]
UiPath PDF File Word Analysis I have a lot of PDF documentation to read. I’ve been starting to work with UiPath and I wondered if I could put something together to perform a simple analysis of the frequency words are used in a document. My thinking here is that is might help to identify trends […]
New Adventures in RPA For the uninitiated RPA stands for Robotic Process Automation, or a way of making technology work in smarter ways. To paraphrase the tag line from UiPath “Make robots so people don’t have to be robots”. “Robotic Process Automation is the technology that allows anyone today to configure computer software, or a […]
Interrogating Public Police Data with open-source technology and serverless methods ##* Update, the dashboards are currently Offline (June 17th). This was built as an educational tools and to demonstrate the art of the possible. If you are interested in funding or rebuilding within your own cloud subscription please contact me*## I wrote previously about using […]