Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Bugzilla has a rudimentary API for driving it from code. To do this from PHP is reasonably trivial, but using Zend Framework (for the cookie jar primarily) makes the task very simple. Here is some example code:
$oClient = new Zend_XmlRpc_Client('http://my.zilla.url/xmlrpc.cgi');
$oHttpClient = new Zend_Http_Client();
$oHttpClient->setCookieJar();
$oClient->setHttpClient($oHttpClient);
$aResponse = $oClient->call('User.login', array(array(
'login' ...
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
There are three reasons I know of for spending money on an operating system at a time when free Ubuntu is now such a viable option. Those reasons are not Internet Explorer, the Microsoft Office paperclip and the excitement gained by placing your valuable data within an environment of questionable ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
In the inspiring Google blog post The Meaning of Open, Jonathan Rosenberg sites the Google Web Toolkit as using “a public bug tracker”. And it is this small mention (in the midst of a post discussing much bigger themes) that I want to pursue.
I work for MediaTel Group and ...
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
I've recently taken a shine to Picasa as an alternative to F-Spot on Linux. Installing Picasa 3 Beta for Linux is straightforward on Ubuntu: download the .deb from Google's site and then install it (sudo dpkg -i picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb). Having done that, the only other bit of configuration I have found ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Ok. The subject of the post is deliberately provocative and the chances of me changing the allegiance of die-hard fans of Apple's "beauty-in-a-box" are remote to say the least. But I think it right to encourage everyone (whether Windows, Mac or Linux desktop users) to look again at ...
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
A project team rewriting one of our web products has made the decision to jump ship from SQL Server to the open-source MySQL database and, at the same time, to place a greater emphasis on the use of stored procedures. Since that decision, there have been various other projects where ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
(Updated: new steps needed for wireless on Eee PC)
Each release of Ubuntu just gets more and more, well, grown-up. When I started using Ubuntu on the desktop, it was a brave man who would upgrade when a new release became available rather than install from scratch (and keep your fingers ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
It's well documented why using a source code control system is a worthwhile investment. Change tracking, team working, a safety-net, release management, control and reporting. And Subversion, a.k.a. svn, is the leading light in the open source world, taking over the mantle from CVS.
Subversion is different. It ...
Posted in Configuration Management, Geek | 4 Comments »
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Create a script to fetch the Google Calendar and copy it to your iPod:
# download the Google calendar ical file through the private URL
wget -c -N http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/yourname%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
# copy it to the iPod
cp basic.ics /media/your-ipod-name/Calendars/google.ics
rm basic.ics
Now configure Ubuntu so that this script is run whenever you plug your iPod in. ...
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