Today I was investigating Continuous Integration solutions for rails projects. In the end I ended up settling on CruiseControl.rb mainly because it’s a rails app and most of the others where Java based. The only problem is that CruiseControl.rb doesn’t currently support Bazaar, in fact the released version only supports SVN while the development version [...]
I uploaded some packages to my Launchpad PPA today. Normally they would build in not less than 20 minutes, however 2 hours later I was still waiting. All my googling for a build bot status page led to nothing useful. wgrant on #launchpad pointed me at https://launchpad.net/builders/ which I though I would note here to [...]
There has been a trend in the Annodex community lately to move towards using git rather than SVN for source code management. Now while I applaud the move to a DVCS, I hate having to use git. It is just extremely painful IMHO. I just shouldn’t have to look up a man page or tutorial [...]
January 20, 2009 – 1:40 pm
This time last year was a very exciting time at linux.conf.au 2008. The conference organisers had arranged for 100 XO laptops to be given away to conference attendees. The XOs came with the following message attached. Please do something wonderful with this XO, or inspire someone else and pass it on. I was fortunate enough [...]
November 25, 2008 – 11:34 am
Last week Pia asked me to help her out with her yet to be name Australian OLPC deployment. The deployment involves two remote sites connected by an ADSL WAN and one of the key applications across this LAN is the use of the VideoChat activity. The children at the site were experiencing audio blips and [...]
I’m currently going through the process of becoming a Debian Maintainer so that I can upload Annodex packages without bugging one of the DDs I know. Thanks to horms and jaq for their help thus far. As part of this process you need to file a bug against the debian-maintainers package to get your key [...]
A couple of days ago I discovered the following mutt config option. set sort = threads set sort_aux = last-date-received This means you get the usual threading but that a thread is sorted by the date the last message in the thread was received. This keeps a thread which receives new mail at the bottom [...]
