FOSS
Linux Australia Elections, Last chance to vote!
If you haven't done so, please go and vote in the Linux Australia elections. If you aren't a member then just join first, membership is free. I'm running for…
Blog
FOSS
Adding multiple database support to Cucumber
The Vqmetrics application needs to connect to two different databases. The first holds the videos, authors and their relevant statistics, while the second…
Sysadmin
rm -rf /usr/lib
So in another case of tab completion gone wrong I ended up staring at the following on my laptop. The command only ran for a few seconds so the damage wasn't…
FOSS
Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu
One of the things I love about the Ubuntu project and launchpad is the Personal Package Archive. PPAs make it so simple and easy to backport packages. The only…
FOSS
Linux Australia SysAdmin Day Gift
I would like to send out a big thank you to the Linux Australia Council. As I'm sure you all know yesterday was System Administrator Appreciation Day. The…
Programming
Changing the type on a legacy table in ActiveRecord
I'm doing some work for a client which involves extracting some data from a legacy database and displaying it in a web interface. One of the fields in the…
FOSS
CruiseControl.rb and Bazaar
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…
FOSS
Launchpad PPA builder status
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…
FOSS
Bzr keeps easing my pain
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…
FOSS
OLPC Library - Trying to get XOs out of people wardrobes
XOs at LCA08 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…