Syria

Politics
Sep 9, 2013

I, Spy

Politics
Sep 2, 2013

Removing the Tracking Image from Alfresco

Technology
Aug 4, 2013

Alfresco is an enterprise document management system. There is a free Community Edition that is open source, but its web interface pulls in an image from their official website that can be used to remotely track usage. This tracking image is added via Javascript and cannot be removed by simply changing a template. It is hard coded into a core class. This tutorial goes through the steps needed to patch the Alfresco WAR file in order to remove the tracking image. It has been tested for Alfresco 4.2c and may need to be adjusted for other versions.

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LtSense – Using Embedded Python for Sensor Networks, Wellington Python User Group

Technology
May 6, 2013

dyject – Python Dependency Injection

Technology
Apr 28, 2013

The first release of dyject is now out. Dyject is a simple dependency injection module for both Python 2 and Python 3. It had no dependencies outside of the standard Python library and uses a configuration parser to construct and wire objects. You can download packages from pypi, get the source code from githib or view the full instructions and documentation on dyject.com

Blues

Philosophy
Apr 2, 2013

I first saw Blues dancing in its modern form in 2005 at the Windy City Lindy Exchance in Chicago. Lindy Hop, a form of Swing dancing, started to reemerge in the late 1990s, partially due to the GAP advertisements featuring Swing Era dances that aired in 1998. Modern Swing was in the process of rediscovering itself as dance instructors were watching classic movies to rediscover and teach Lindy Hop.

Many DJs found that much of the danceable music from that era was intermixed in their collections with Blues. In the late nights between social dancing and classes, swing dancers were rediscovering Blues music. Unlike Lindy Hop which rediscovered an existing dance that had faded but had not truly died, modern Blues dancing is an amalgamation of both original, non-structured movement with many borrowed steps and stylings from Swing and other Jazz dances.

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Big Sense: REST Web Services in Scala for Sensor Networks, Wellington Java User Group

Technology
Mar 29, 2013

Rear View Mirror v1.0 Released

Technology
Mar 11, 2013

Rear View Mirror v1.0 is now out. It has an improved option dialog, cleaner update system and MSI installers for both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It also has a new website: RearViewMirror.cc.

Invalid partition table in VMWare ESX

Technology
Feb 6, 2013

Anyone who has expanded a drive in Linux knows it’s a two step process. First, the partition table must be altered to include the new space. Second, the file system must be expanded to make use of the new space within its partition. It’s a fairly straightforward process I’ve done many times, but I ran into an interesting issue when attempting this within VMWare.

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Copy Reddit Subscriptions from One Account to Another

Technology
Feb 6, 2013

For those of you who use Reddit, if you’ve ever wanted to abandon one account for another, or just copy your subscriptions between your primary and your throw-away account, I’ve written a Python script called copy_reddit. I uses the praw API to copy both subscriptions and friends lists.