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GoodBye Google Reader 14 Mar 2013 | 07:38 am
Update: Switched to Feedly instead. It automatically syncs all of your google reader subscriptions. Easiest transition ever. Google Reader has been one of those apps that I used several times every da...
How a good day turns bad 19 Jul 2011 | 05:07 pm
I’m in Seattle for a 4-day training course on AWS at Amazon and the weather here is a sunny 75 degrees. Today was the first day of training, I learned a lot of good information, had a good lunch and w...
WikiPublisher plugin for jenkins 28 Mar 2011 | 04:56 am
Sometimes, folks other than the developers are interested in the finding out about the different builds and the components (upstream projects) that are in a build. These other folks might be managers ...
major.minor plugin for Jenkins 28 Mar 2011 | 03:47 am
Recently, I’ve been tasked with setting up a build environment at work and we decided to go with Hudson and now Jenkins. I think the best part of Jenkins is its extensibility in the form of writing pl...
Hard drive fail! 30 Nov 2010 | 07:00 pm
Update:So it turns out that it wasn’t a windows update problem after all. My Samsung hard drive was faulting and had gone bad. Even though the Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T monitor was telling it was bad, ther...
Format of SVN access file for Path Based Authorization 18 Dec 2009 | 05:27 pm
Fine grained permissions on SVN repositories can be provided by creating an access file. Following is a sample access file explaining the basic format of the file. More details can be found by reading...
Create SVN repositories using a standard folder structure 11 Dec 2009 | 05:08 pm
This is shell script that you can use to create all of your repositories using the same standard folder structure. You need to replace the following variables for it to run: Replace [name] with the c...
jQuery Formhints plugin 29 Nov 2009 | 11:56 pm
A very simple jquery plugin for showing hints right next to form inputs. This is a jquery adaptation of the excellent javascript & css form hint script here. I’ve made it where the form hints show up...
Installing SVN server 26 Nov 2009 | 05:57 pm
Install latest Apache http server Install SVN Make sure to install mod_dav_svn and mod_authz_svn. mod_authz_svn is only needed if you plan on doing fine-grained directory permissions on your SVN rep...
Moving repositories/ Creating backups in SVN 2 Aug 2009 | 03:20 pm
Recently, I needed to move some projects around in my SVN and it turned out to be very easy, although it took a bit of googling. This also gives you a way to take file backups of your repositories. Ba...
