- 2012-12-223 minRaspberry Pi Temperature and Humidity Project Construction
For some time I have had a Raspberry Pi languishing on my desk, like many I bought one early on and played around with it for a while and then got busy with other stuff. Recently however I have been looking into …
#022 - 2012-10-207 minWhat is HMAC Authentication and why is it useful?
To start with a little background, then I will outline the options for authentication of HTTP based server APIs with a focus on HMAC and lastly I will provide some tips for developers building and using HMAC based …
#021 - 2012-06-203 minBuilding Ruby Projects with Bundler and the Bamboo Ruby Plugin
The latest release of the Ruby plugin I develop for Atlassian Bamboo now includes some new configuration options for Bundler along with a number of other additions and improvements. In this post I want to focus on the …
#020 - 2012-06-113 minBundler gems and binstubs
I have been working on an update of my Bamboo ruby plugin which uses bundler to install all the gems for a given project within the working copy of the project and then run rake using these gems. The aim of this post is …
#019 - 2012-01-092 minLess is more especially when it comes to CSS
I am currently working on new design for my site using HTML5, CSS and a sprinkling of JavaScript. Once I started building my basic design I was re-acquainted with a process that really, really annoys me; the constant …
#018 - 2011-12-074 minTips for Bamboo Plugin Developers
Having recently developed a plugin (Ruby Rake Plugin ) for Atlassian’s Bamboo continuous integration (CI) server I thought I would put together a list of tips for those looking to do the same. As there are some …
#017 - 2011-10-166 minMonitoring the OpenJDK from the CLI
Currently I do quite a bit of work in and around the Java virtual machine (JVM), most of the time on Linux. When things go awry and I am trying to establish why, I reach for the Java performance analysis tools. These …
#016 - 2011-09-105 minHow I use chef-solo with ubuntu 12.04
Having recently started working with chef I have come up with a simple method of kickstarting use of it in the small end of town. This really is designed for those of use managing a large number of very similar servers, …
#015 - 2011-09-046 minJIRA and the not so great new installer
The following post is a review of the new installer added in 4.4 of Atlassian JIRA. It details my experience with this installer and provides some advice on how to improve it. Since it’s recent release I have seen …
#014 - 2011-08-172 minRoad Testing Gradle
For a while I have been tempted to stray from the relative safety of Maven and Ant . Every time I fight with these tools, or in the case of maven am stunned and amazed out how simple things can require so much xml, I …
#013 - 2011-07-242 minHacking rails on Ubuntu with rvm
Over the last few days I have been familiarising myself with some of the rails source code and surveying it for use in my own projects. In doing so I noticed there were quite a few gotchas getting Ubuntu and ruby set up …
#012 - 2011-06-143 minGHTest Getting Started
Recently I have caught the OS X software development bug and started hacking on a small project in this environment. As I am normally pretty keen to try out new APIs and indeed a whole new language, I was keen to get …
#011 - 2011-06-074 minRHOK Survival Guide
Last weekend I was fortunate to have participated in first ever random hacks of kindness event. This was quite an amazing experience and one I really enjoyed, however going into this event I had no idea what to expect, …
#010 - 2011-05-292 minWorking with the html5boilerplate project
Recently I started work on a new site which I plan to use underscore.js and backbone.js . Starting a site from scratch can be quite a chore, as well as time consuming. To remedy this I decided to take the plunge and give …
#009 - 2011-05-262 minUsing Apache CXF And Maven With a Proxy Server
I discovered a couple of interesting issues when using Apache CXF and Maven behind a proxy this week. It started when I sent out a package of stubs in a Maven project I had built to enable developers of integration …
#008 - 2011-05-244 minHow to build server with Bamboo and Ubuntu
Recently I have been looking into setting up my own build server, having used Cruisecontrol, Hudson, Teamcity in the passed I wanted to give something new a try. With the recent release of Bamboo 3.1.1 I thought I would …
#007 - 2011-05-222 minUsing Jackson with Apache CXF
Whilst working on my Javascript, ExtJS 4 and Apache CXF skills I came across a solution to a problem I encountered getting ExtJS to talk to Apache CXF using JSON. The basis for this issue revolves around …
#006 - 2011-05-203 minApache CXF Logging Configuration
Configuring logging in Apache CXF can be confusing at first, in my view this is further compounded by Apache Tomcat’s logging architecture. In my cxf based projects the first step is to use the logging …
#005 - 2011-05-072 minBuilding Apache CXF web service clients namespace mapping
Recently I have been doing quite a bit of work around Apache CXF , both on the server side and the client side. Over the next few weeks I will post some of the tricks I have learnt. In this post I will summarise one of …
#004 - 2011-03-061 minMoving to Jekyll and Disqus
First post from my newly migrated blog reviewing migration from wordpress to Jekyll and Disqus. Jekyll for site generation. Sass for simplified css goodness. Pygments code highlighting. Disqus Following some of the sites …
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