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Today I wanted to use some software I have on CD on a new computers. Obviously modern computers don’t have CD drives. One “mini PC” I have at one of my offices, however, does. My plan was, today, as I’m at this office, to use the CD drive to create an ISO of the disk. (It’s my computer, doesn’t belong to an employer.)
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Triggering Bamboo From GitLab: Making CI and VCS servers play together
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joshuarogers.net
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11 years ago
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eng
Build servers and source control are like the peanut-butter and jelly of devops; they just go together. That would make us suspect that it shouldn't be that big of a deal to setup push notifications to trigger builds, right? My GitLab instance shows that it will gladly trigger a build via web hook when it receives a new commit. My Bamboo shows that it will just as cheerfully scan for changes when it gets a web request.
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These are the default generated Web.Config files from Visual Studio 2013 Update 3. Web.Config for .NET Framework 4.5.1 Web.Config for .NET…
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Earlier this year, the new version of the Java Programming Language was released. Finally, it enters the field of the “cool peeps” with some features it should have had since years ago, like Lambdas.
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It's not Monday, so why am I posting something new? Just a quick announcement: I've migrated joshuarogers.net from http to https. http://joshuarogers.net now just returns a 302 Redirect to the appropriate https page.
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There is no such thing as plain text “But I see .txt files all the time” you say. “My source code is plain text” you claim. “What about web pages?!” you frantically ask. True, each of those things is comprised of text. The plain part is the problem. Plain denotes default or normal. There is no such thing. Computers store and transmit data in a number of methods; each are anything but plain.
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The Fifth Elephant is a popular conference in India around the Big Data ecosystem. It happened last week in Bangalore. And we were proud to…
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Cómo prevenir el envío de la configuración de 'locale' en Mac vía SSH
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www.patrickdap.com
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11 years ago
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spa
Y evitar mensajes como... 'locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory' en conexiones SSH Uno de los problemas que siempre me surge al momento en que limpio el Mac para dejarlo listo para la batalla es el problema de que la configuración por defecto del SSH de Mac envía a cualquier conexión vía SSH una solicitud para que aplique la configuración de locale de mi Mac en esas conexiones, resultando en problemas c..
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Excellent article from Carl Holscher on what it actually means to be an adult. At nineteen and preparing to head off to college, as well as greater things hopefully down the road, I found this piece particularly interesting and profound. Permalink.
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I hit a milestone today. Three of the four levels so far in Lemma (Rain, Dawn, and Forest) have undergone at least one massive redesign in their short lifetimes. This week I finally gave the same treatment to the fourth level, Monolith. It is aptly named. Let me try to convey just how monolithic this level is now. This is a perfect example of my patent-pending Design by Trial and Error™ process.
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Every developer has run into this issue at least once. There are a few different tools you can use to find out what process is locking a…
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As I sit down to begin writing this, I lay in a hammock strung between two trees. It is old, this hammock: the previous owners replaced an even older one with it as a small gift when my family purchased this house some three years ago now, and despite the occasional frayed rope, we have felt no need to replace it yet. Outside of the occasional creak and a fair bit of moss that has worked its way into the fibrous sinews that crisscross seemi..
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PikoPy: A python package for working with a Piko Inverter from Kostal
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blog.tafkas.net
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11 years ago
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eng
The first step of my plan, building a Raspberry Pi based photovoltaic monitoring solution, is finished. I created a python package that works with the Kostal Piko 5.5 inverter (and theoretically should work with other Kostal inverters as well) and offers a clean interface for accessing the data: import pikopy #create a new piko instance p = Piko('host', 'username', 'password') #get current power print p.get_current_power() #get voltage from..
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Great primer from Shawn Blanc for anyone hoping to take their work home and go indie. Someday, I hope I will have cause to return to this. Permalink.
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The best way to attain success is to show up every single day and work hard, or so the saying goes; in terms of this site and my goal of growing and fostering a strong readership, this meant putting some nontrivial amount of time into reading and writing every single day in the hopes that I could one day make this more than a hobby. For quite some time now, I have done well to follow this advice, and doing so has led to rather spectacular r..
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Another great piece from the surprisingly diverse site Outside Online, this time on the hallowed 10,000 hour rule. Especially within the circles I travel of writers, programmers, and general creative types, this is a very popular way for many to prescribe greater dedication and hard work to those looking to attain some modicum of success. However, even in the face of these new findings, I believe the underlying sentiment behind these sugges..
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I got a newsletter last night from Screenhero announcing version 1.0. The problem is that in the announcement, they also announced a change in pricing that will probably kill a lot of what they have going for them. And I hate that. I REALLY hate that. I've worked for companies where we had to invest a lot of time cleaning up bad decisions, so maybe it bothers me a little more. I really like Screenhero though, so I'm going to try to help. I ..
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Discovered thanks to Dave Pell’s excellent newsletter The Next Draft under the title “ Just Look at Yourself ”, this is a very fascinating realization that immediately resonated with me: perhaps one of the reasons so many people spend such vast amounts of time engrossed in one device or another is not necessarily because Candy Crush is so addicting and Facebook makes them feel happy — or sad, as the case may be — , but rather because we hav....
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This post originally started out like this: I’ve made a few more shell patterns for the snails! I then started to descibe how the basic genetics work in the simulation (limited to pattern color). While doing so, I began to realize that it is all wrong . I went back and ripped apart some of the breeding system to get it to a slightly more realistic state. Needless to say it’s still not really correct, but at least it’s a bit close..
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Fascinating story by Hampton Sides for Outside Online. As I have said before , Russia has always held a great deal of interest for me; with this article, Hampton lifts that near-impermeable veil — even if only a little bit. Permalink.
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Pop quiz: What will be the output of this little program? public class DateFun { public static void main(String[] args) { long hours = getHoursOfDay(LocalDate.now(), ZoneId.systemDefault()); System.out.println(hours); } private static long getHoursOfDay(LocalDate date, ZoneId zoneId) { ZonedDateTime startOfDay = date.atStartOfDay(zoneId); Duration duration = Duration.between(startOfDay, startOfDay.plusDays(1)); return duration.toHours(); } ..
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When Adam and Nathan talked about this article during episode seventeen of their podcast Five More Things , 50 Cent is Actually Brilliant , I recognized its potential value but dismissed it as largely uninteresting, and sent it away to Instapaper. Now, however, a few weeks later, I wish I had sat down and read it as soon as it came to my attention. My only complaint is that I wish it were longer: 50 Cent had some fantastic advice and shar..
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My experience at Startup Weekend Adelaide building Lend A Skilled Hand, a platform matching skilled volunteers with organisations
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My experience at Startup Weekend Adelaide building Lend A Skilled Hand, a platform matching skilled volunteers with organisations
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My experience at Startup Weekend Adelaide building Lend A Skilled Hand, a platform matching skilled volunteers with organisations
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The first commit auto-tweeted from the @gastropoda_ twitter account yesterday was actually the last commit dedicated to the Laravel port reimplementation:
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Beautiful pictures from a remarkable place; I would love to take a long trip out here someday. Permalink.
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About a month ago searchcode.com managed to sit on the front page of Hacker News (HN) for most of a day and produced a lot of useful feedback for me to act on. You can read the full details here searchcode: A source code search engine Between the HN feedback, some I received via tweets and from republished articles I got a list of things I needed to work on. The first and main change requested was over the way searchcode was matching ..
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APRS is a tactical digital communications system used between amateurs radio, to exchange positions & messages, here I blog my experience decoding/encoding APRS with a small Arduino as it may help some of you too. Some transceivers are incorporating this functionalities but most of them don’t, a lot of new technicians start with cheap Baofeng radios (30$) which don’t provide advanced functionnalities but here is a way to solve that.
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Getting to Know Fiddler: Part II: Simulate client side requests without needing the client side
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joshuarogers.net
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11 years ago
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eng
Last week we started looking at the web proxy Fiddler, or the “Fiddler Web Debugger” as it unfortunately bills itself. While the name is accurate, I can't help but feel that it is a bit of an understatement, much like calling the Hulk “somewhat tempermental”1, or MacGyver “good at assembling things”. Sure, Fiddler is a debugger, but it's less of a simple tool and more the web equivalent of a swiss army knife that contains an entire Home Dep..
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A more apropos title, I feel, might read something along the lines of “Entitlement in the Age of Abundance”. Between that, and Ben’s actual title, I’m sure you can get a fair idea as to the subject matter of his article. And his closing point: the cliched “you never know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone”. I find it remarkable how many love to hate companies like Google, yet have no problem crawling back to them when they finally realize how ..
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It’s no secret that I harbor a strong dislike of The Verge: perpetually vying with public radio for the title of my most hated news institution, I make no bones about sharing this disgust with others. And so, because of that, when the news first broke that Josh Topolsky — a writer I have no great love for — was leaving Vox for Bloomberg, I barely took notice; however, a lot of other people have, and this has since become quite the new..
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This week, thanks to Carl Holscher and Daniel Ignacio, I have discovered two great new podcasts. Alongside these two shows, I once again present my list of the best podcasts I have had the privilege to hear over the past seven days. These are the best of the best, folks, and as such I hope you will spend some time checkout out each and every one of them. I promise: it will be worth your time. Permalink.
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