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2021

Mobti.me as a Remote Timer

Remote workshops come with their own set of challenges. An often overlooked one is how to get everyone back at a certain time. If you focus on the exercise you easily miss the agreed time to come back. That is even before we start with time zones and specialities like half-hour deviations from standard time (as they occur in parts of Australia).

A nice solution to this problem is mobti.me. This free service is a remote timer for mob (or ensemble) programming. Without any modification we can reuse this service for anything that needs a timer.

A Simple Way to Fix ssl_error_rx_record_too_long in IIS Express

After deleting the developer certificate in IIS Express I could recreate a new one as described in this post. This approach worked, even when I needed to run the IisExpressAdminCmd for every port I use. At least, that was how I could fix all problems with SSL and IIS Express on my machine until a few weeks ago. I finally gave up as I got this error:

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG