Java Apps and the External Environment Table of Contents 1. Overview 2. Patterns for External Files 2.1. Standalone Directory 2.2. Resource Loading Files 2.3. Separate […]

Ubuntu contains a nice notification system to talk to the user about noteworthy events. However when the message dissappears, by default, it is gone. Often I […]

Preparing **Plone** to start the WebDAV service and setting the permissions to allow the users to make use of it is only half the battle, actually using it, especially from automated systems like build servers is another struggle.

2011-07-22 Fri 16:33 Figure out proxy settings Linux Ubuntu has a Network Proxy chooser which allows you to select a location (a la MacOSX). This […]

Dotfiles, can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. Dot files are the term for folders and files starting with a ‘.’ so they do […]

Overview and Goals We build our solutions mostly on Ubuntu Natty and we deploy to Debian (currently lenny). One problem we face is that Debian […]

Org Mode can use the idle time to correct time tracking entries. On the Mac this works on the idle time of the computer, on […]

The Mac has a great utility called Divvy to easily map windows to loacation on the screen using the keyboard. Fiddling with the mouse to […]

Not a big thing, actually for me it is. I am always struggling with proxy settings. It requires a lot of different incantations to be […]

Recently our sonar installation on our Hudson CI choked again, this time with an error I have not seen before. It was just before the […]