Author: Tony Georgiev

Optimize Clarity CSS

Posted on by Tony Georgiev

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VMware’s Clarity provides very nice and clean styles to typical HMTL components. In this topic we will focus only the CSS section of Clarity that can be used with vanilla JS, without the Angular components. It suits well if you want a common look and feel across your site or app, similarly to Twitter’s Bootstrap. Now there is small problem, the range of components the CSS covers is a lot, and even minified it is ~770KB. But for a small and medium websites most likely you would use just a fraction of what the whole library can provide. Read More

Good Vibe

Posted on by Tony Georgiev

I am happy to announce that very recently I released my first skill for Amazon Alexa called “Good Vibe“. It’s one project that I built from an idea to it’s current state for about a month in my free hours after work. I definitely learned a lot of things in my effort to create a public service like it, and I would like to cover the highlights for it.

The idea

The idea came very recently after I bought an Amazon Echo device, I was looking for a similar skill that I can program how to respond with text or audio on specific queries. I wanted to get my hands dirty on developing a skill for Alexa.

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May the Orchestration be with you

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Recently together with a friend of mine we were discussing the most hot topic these days – the new Star Wars movie. He showed me this uber cool site http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ that plays Episode IV in ASCII. He also showed me that there is a more geeky version of it using telnet http://www.blinkenlights.nl/services.html. So it got me thinking, I have never used the Telnet client part of vRO’s Net plugin + I am a Star Wars fan, what a great opportunity! Streaming Star Wars Episode IV in vRO’s logs:

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Automate business groups creation with catalog items and entitlements

Posted on by Tony Georgiev

If you are a business admin and you have to create a business group for a newly on-boarded department, and you want to entitle OOTB catalog items for the members of this group, how will you do it? Through the UI, you would

  1. Create a business group by:
    1. Open the Business Groups tab.
    2. Click on “new business group”.
    3. Fill in group information: name, description, default machine prefix, managers, managers emails, users, etc.
  2. Create Entitlement
    1. Open the Entitlements tab
    2. Click on “add entitlement”
    3. fill in entitlement information: name, description, expiration date, status, business group
  3. Assign the same users from the business group
  4. Assign catalog items to the entitlement

Those are a lot of clicks. Imagine if you could do it with a single click (or a lot less than the above example), with an automated solution that is less error prone and fast! Well you can do it with the help of ASD and vRO and here we will show you how to do it. We will create a vRO workflow and an ASD blueprint out of it that we will publish to the Catalog.

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