Month: January 2016
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cntlm – a local proxy, that all your (local) applications can go through w/o explicit authentication
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cntlm/ http://cntlm.sourceforge.net https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NT_LAN_Manager – mentions cntlm “Somebody” certainly does the necessary authentication and that’s cntlm. The advantages: all those applications’ configurations look really, really minimal authentication details that change “frequently” live at “only one” place cntlm gets provided to you as sources -win32.zip, -setup.exe .rpm, .deb …
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Microsoft Outlook as feed reader — if the feed needs any authentication, use IE for that — that’s because Outlook and IE share their cookie store
E.g. Jenkins (the automation server) provides RSS feeds describing job build histories. Perfect means to survey build results, and an approach that comes with Jenkins out of the box, one that does not create and send e-mail messages — a rather stupid overhead. I got the idea of using Outlook for feed reading, when I came…
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one of my ongoing main software projects: create “diary entries” from activity streams
my JIRA project activities – solved using JIRA’s REST API and in use procmail log file reflecting my incoming e-mail – solved … and in use my blogging activities: my own WordPress “blogs” (better use the REST API than the Atom feed), the company “blogs” (Atlassian Confluence (also a wiki), …), … my wiki authoring…
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another little software development project: create an Emacs style diary from the Atom feed of my blog(s)
http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/feed/ The XML looks like this: each article on the blog is an “<item>…</item>” on the list of the Atom feed each “<item>…” has a “<title>…“ a “<link>…“ and a “<pubDate>…“ That’s all I need. Well … – WordPress truncates the blog article list shown in the Atom feed, and sometimes (at least) I want to…
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the Linux filesystem “ext4” is also available for OS X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4 http://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-mac/ https://github.com/gerard/ext4fuse – for read-only mounting
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“awestruct” – a static site baking and deployment tool – used by jenkins-ci.org
http://awestruct.org http://asciidoctor.org https://jenkins-ci.org/blog/2016/01/05/new-website https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io – this repository is what powers the Jenkins website: “This uses awestruct with Asciidoctor under the hood to provide a very useful and compelling web presence for the Jenkins automation server.” The new jenkins-ci.org website is based on awestruct. awestruct is written in Ruby. The jenkins-ci.org website is run by Python.
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“Emacs For Mac OS X” – they fixed an ugly error with a notification area
http://emacsformacosx.com http://emacsformacosx.com/atom/daily http://emacsformacosx.com/emacs-builds/Emacs-2016-01-08_01-41-42-4580671-universal.dmg Starting with the December version Emacs left an ugly blank rectangle as a left over of notifications, now it shows an exclamation mark in a yellow triangle, and there is no left over.
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“opprtunity” is harvesting LinkedIn for e-mail addresses and subscribe you to their mailing list w/o your consent
I find that a rather bad habit.
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WordPress 4.4 comes with a REST API
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/ http://v2.wp-api.org What a coincidence – just recently I stumbled across my WP-CLI bookmark here. Looks like this was worth while.