slack_webhook_json_to_rocketchat_webhook_json

Rocket.Chat Webhooks Processing Slack Formatted Requests

Rocket.Chat is an open-source communication platform offering a plethora of features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. It is a serious open-source alternative to Slack. Many organizations and businesses choose Rocket.Chat for the control that self-hosting provides, as well as for its privacy and security benefits. Over the […]

Secure PDF Redactions: a Script Based Approach using ImageMagick

In today’s digital landscape, PDF documents have become a ubiquitous medium for sharing information, ranging from professionally generated reports to scanned copies of vital documents. There are numerous scenarios, be it for privacy concerns, security protocols, or compliance with legal requirements, where redacting certain pieces of information from these PDFs becomes necessary. A common method […]

Setting up SAML for Odoo with Google Workspace

Many companies and organisation uses Google Workspace as the provider of their productivity and collaboration apps. The Gmail webmail service, Google drive, Google Documents, Google Meet, The calendar and many other apps are simple great tools for small and medium-sized organisations. Odoo is an open-source suite of business applications that assists companies in managing various […]

YAML Files – Formatting Long Strings

Keep the Yaml files in your project tidy is useful. Not only it improves code readability but also helps avoiding misunderstanding and bugs. Luckily there are many tools available that helps with “linting” and formatting yaml file, I introduced two of those tools in an earlier blog post titled: YAML Files – Linting and Formatting. […]

docker-compose-certbot

A Docker-first solution to running NGINX reverse proxy with automatically updated Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates using nginx-proxy and acme-companion

In a previous blog post, I presented a solution to use docker-compose to obtain and renew a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate and configure NGINX to use it. The solution depended on using two docker-compose files, one for the initialisation and the second for operation, as well as a cron job, and a couple of very […]

Using docker-compose to quickly deploy Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat is an open-source business communication platform that provides many features such as persistent chat rooms (channels) organised by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. The platform can be self-hosted. In this blog post I will detail the steps I used to quickly and reliably deploy Rocket.Chat platform on a Linux machine running Docker. Rocket.Chat […]