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Congratulations to OSC principal Scott Stults and his wife on the birth of their first baby, a healthy and as of yet unnamed son. Naturally, Scott cannot allow something…
Congratulations to OSC principal Scott Stults and his wife on the birth of their first baby, a healthy and as of yet unnamed son. Naturally, Scott cannot allow something…
Duane Gran recently pinged me about thoughts on “System logs as reproducible scripts”. Its a topic that Ive been running into recently as weve gone into testing a web…
Weve been using the WikiNotifyScript from trac-hacks.org for quite a while now. It helps us stay appraised of changes to all of our various wikis and its pretty easy…
Here’s an old blog about Tomcat security. We specialise in helping teams building powerful and relevant search engines with Solr and Elasticsearch – get in touch if you need…
The biggest slam against using file based databases like SQLite is that they are actual files embedded in your application, and that you have to go through extra hoops…
In the beginning there was CruiseControl, the original Continous Integration tool. Most people, including myself, cut there teeth on CruiseControl. Then, over time, a couple of opensource projects started…
Weve had a little Expenses Rails app for tracking charges and funneling them back to Accounting. One of the key bits is that we can upload a picture of…
I love how easy it is to keep up with the latest and greatest of a plugin in Rails: script/plugin install -x https://some.subversion.server/plugin. Unfortunantly, if you then want to…
I recently migrated our Subversion repositories and trac sites from one server to another. This gave me the chance to reorganize our layout and authentication mechanism. I chose to…
After 7 months and 34 posts, weve outgrown Simplog. Were just finishing migrating all the content to our new WordPress blog, but Im sure youll see some bumps in…
Thanks to Pruppert, word about our iTunes deduplicate script is spreading. He posted on the Mac World Forum and had an excellent write-up on how the script differed from…
Just as people spend far too much time in meetings, they also spend far too much time sifting through reports trying to determine what the most important information to…