Category: Tooling

Counter Update

I just finished my latest improvements to the legacy version of my counter script. I just added the lookup for ISPs and added dynamic scaling for the axis legend. I will now going forward to change the whole system to a more sophisticated software, e.g. using a Datawarehouse approach. The first version of the Data-Model

Joyent SmartOS VM MYSQL Setup

I just played around with the new SmartOS from Joyent ( Homepage ). I followed a basic tutorial from a Blog called opusmagnus to setup my basic SmartOS Machine on Virtualbox. You basically just have to insert the latest iso image and startup the VM (SmartOS is a system that runs from a live Medium

maven is not ant

Neben vielen berechtigten Kritikpunkten die manch einer dem Build-Tool Maven vorwerfen kann, ist oftmals der falsche Einsatz einer der Hauptgründe für die schlechte Perfomance (d.h. lange Build-Zeiten) die fehlerhafte Nutzung von Maven Features. Oft sieht man, dass Module untereinander durch relative Pfadangaben verknüpft sind. Dies mag bei Ant-Builds ein gängiges Mittel sein, aber wenn man

Show Build-Information in your iOS App About Panel

Sometimes it might be useful to have an exact piece of information about what version of an app you have currently running. Especially if you have a decent Testing-Group, it is important to track the versions in which a bug appears. The goal of this post is to achieve a info panel like this in

Using UIAutomation for Multilanguage iOS Applications

With the appearance of iOS 4.0 Apple introduced a new Test-Framework for automatically UI Testing: UI Automation. Based on Javascript and build-in into Instruments, UI Automation is a very useful tool during the Developing of iOS Application. A very good introduction in UIAutomation is here and here. During the development of a iOS Application, we

Philipps 5 mins: Graph-Fun with AJAX and Canvas

I always searched for an efficient way add dynamic diagrams to a web-project without using flash or other plugin-based magic. With the support of the canvas tag element in almost all mainstream browser, i thought it would be a good time for creating a short demo how things workout. You will need at least two

MacOS update 10.6.4 and Macfusion

After the updating MacFusion to the latest Version, i got the known Snow Leopard Error again. Last time i found the solution here. Worked also perfect this time.

MacOS update 10.6.4 and GPGMail

So the latest MacOS Update broke the gpg-mail Plugin again. But it seems that the old UUID Trick saves the show. First close Mail.app. Then you need to find out the new PluginCompatibilityUUIDs from Mail.app and the Message Framework. cat /System/Library/Frameworks/Message.framework/Resources/Info.plist | grep UUID -A 1 cat /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Info.plist |grep UUID -A 1 | grep UUID

creating JNI with Swig

I am currently playing around with JNI and Java due the colleagues question to make the connect features of jack-audio (http://jackaudio.org) accessible to java. There is already a javalib (http://jjack.berlios.de) with some features, there seems still some needes ones missing. So i started today to have a look into SWIG (http://swig.org). “SWIG is a software

Wiederherstellen eines MacOS Festplatten-Backups mit Hilfe von DD

Das Festplattendienstprogramm von MacOS bietet unter einer übersichtlichen Oberfläche ein umfangreiches Tool um mit Festplatten zu arbeiten. Allerdings gibt es hier einige Probleme, welche oftmals einen Umweg über das Terminal benötigen. Ich habe das Tool dazu benutzt um eine Festplatte aus einem neu erworbenen Netbook zu sichern, bevor ich mit verschiedenen Linux Distributionen spiele :-).

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