GNU Terry Pratchett
“A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” – Going Postal, Chapter 4 prologue A touching tribute, one I’ve heartily embraced. http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
Ending Illegal Fishing Using Games Technology
As we’ve just had our big media launch of the project I thought I’d share some information about the project I’ve been working on as part of my job at the Satellite Applications Catapult here in the UK. For the passed 18 months we have been working on a project with Pew Charitable Trusts with […]
Dad’s Clock
Work has been mental for a few months so despite doing odds and sods on Hugo and a buttload of work on our illegal fishing project at work (hopefully more on that soon) I’ve not posted anything in a while so thought I’d post about a clock I’m building for my Dad. My dad’s an […]
Geoserver, Leaflet Angular Directive and viewParams
Catchy title, I know… In the big GIS project I’m working on we have a large set of data, 100 million rows+, which needs to be rendered as an overlay. This turned out to be tricky as I’m not really a GIS developer and learning as I go. I figured it out through trial and error so […]
JavaScript IDE, Git and Deployment
So I was working on a set of scripts to automatically commit and deploy HTML, JavaScript and CSS stuff using PowerShell however as I’ve just discovered WebStorm which does all this and allows for live preview and debugging of code I’m not going to bother anymore! After installing it I quickly managed to configure auto-deployment […]
Git, FTP and Cygwin
So I’ve been trying to get to grips with scripting for git to allow me to commit then deploy via FTP on Windows. I discovered git-ftp which looked promising but it was Linux flavoured, I followed the rabbit hole all the way to installing Cygwin and attempting to build it for Windows before realising I […]
SSHFS From Windows to Ubuntu
SSHFS is a file system that works over SSH, this allows for a secure connection to remote file systems and in my case will allow me to use the Windows based tools I’m familiar with against files on a remote Linux machine. I’m planning on getting to grips with Linux but it’s daft not to […]
PowerShell Guid Generation
Learning WIX at the minute and needed a Guid for the product ID, a quick search found an easy solution using PowerShell. To make it easier to paste into another application, this was my solution; [System.Guid]::NewGuid().toString() | clip This puts the Guid straight into the clipboard, ready to be used.
Generating a C# Class from XML
After a two week hiatus from work and blogging, spent mostly at the ever excellent Reading Beer Festival, I’m back at work and doing something so simple I’ve utterly forgotten how to do it. As this blog started as a way for me to keep track of random things I learn over the years, it’s time to […]
Installing Atlassian Stash on a Headless Ubuntu Server
Today’s post relates to my experience installing Atlassian Stash on a headless Ubuntu box. My first attempt ended with me trying all sorts of nonsense which left the server messy as hell, including an accidental installation of Unity… The trickiest part for me was the installation of Java as the version available via the package […]
