I'm currently involved in updating an in-house developed issue/bug tracking system. It's a simple web application with a SQL database used for persistence. We've decided not to do a big bang migration of all data, instead we're migration one project/product at a time. This makes the transition easier to manage, as fewer users need to be informed of ( Read more... )

If you're like me, and likes working from the command line on linux, but still have to administer Windows servers, you will like winexe. It's a small command line utility that remotely executes commands on a Windows system.

For example, to list alle the user in the Administrators group on the machine called myserver issue the following:

$ winexe ( Read more... )

On Linux information about memory are available ind the virtual file /proc/meminfo, you can open this file in an editor or simple display it in a console like this:

$ less /proc/meminfo

The output will be something like this:

MemTotal: 1034436 kB ( Read more... )

The following SQL can be used to compare two Oracle schemas, for example a staging environment with production.

The first select statement will list all the current users objects (except tables and stuff in the recycle bin). The second select statement will list all the current users columns (and tables), except stuff in the recycle bin.

Send the ( Read more... )

I recently switched from Ubuntu to Arch Linux as my prefered Linux distribution. I have not regretted that (but I would still recomend Ubuntu, it's a great distribution.)

I've only run into one small problem with Arch Linux. I use Midnight Commander as my file manager. It has the abillity to browse tarballs and zip archives directly (as virtual ( Read more... )

Recently I gave a short presentation to the local Perl Mongers Group. The topic of the evening was build and deploy systems. I had chosen to present Maven.

Maven is a tool written in Java and only useful when managing Java project (but it implements some common and best practices that a valid in any software project ( Read more... )

I'm trying to collect all my public presence (i.e. this blog and twitter) in one place. More of that later...

During that work I stumbled on twitterfeed.com, that will take a feed and send it twitter, facebook, etc.

I've signed up, and now the subjects of my blog entries should appear on twitter - automatically.

I'm at the Øredev conference. It's the first real day of the conference, that was preceeded by two days of tutorials and courses, which I didn't go to ( Read more... )

The topic for the next meeting of the Copenhagen Perl Mongers is Lightning-talks about Firefox plugins. In preparation for this I installed the Extension List Dumper, a plugin to list the extension/plugins currently installed. The result (on my laptop at work) can be seen below:

Application: Firefox 3.5.3 (20090824101458)
Operating System: WINNT ( ( Read more... )

Well, the conference starts tomorrow... so I'm going to bed now.

Here's the view from my hotel window:


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