In order to prevent email delivery during development and log all email messages that would have been delivered, you can actually do a simple trick: Replace the file /usr/sbin/sendmail (on Ubuntu, use ‘locate sendmail’ to find it if it lies elsewhere) with this little shell-script, or rather make a _bak of the original and save [...]
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February 8, 2011 by marco · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Linux, Serverstuff, Tools
Social Tagging: development • Linux • php • Serverstuff • Tools
Filed under: Linux, Serverstuff, Tools
Social Tagging: development • Linux • php • Serverstuff • Tools
November 2, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Links, Read-Write-Web, Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: api • Tools
Filed under: Links, Read-Write-Web, Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: api • Tools
If you are looking for a simple way to display lines like a roundtrip on a map, Google’s Static Maps API might be for you. Documentation and examples: http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ Limits: – There is a query limit of 1000 unique (different) image requests per viewer per day. – URLs are restricted to 2048 characters. Here are [...]
October 19, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Linux, Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: Linux • php • script • Tools
Filed under: Linux, Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: Linux • php • script • Tools
If you have to deal with very old PHP4 legacy code containing every syntax crime you may know from the early years, how would you handle it? Give it to your junior people to fix it manually? I like to have at least some handy helpers for the first rough corrections. I found sed to [...]
June 24, 2010 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Mac, Snippets, Tutorials
Social Tagging: commandline • Serverstuff • Tools
Filed under: Mac, Snippets, Tutorials
Social Tagging: commandline • Serverstuff • Tools
This is a receipe how I save stuff to S3 from my Mac: 1.) Signup with S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ (check pricing!). This will give you access to the AWS Management Console. 2.) Create a Bucket: This can be done via the AWS Management console. If you are not familiar with the concept of ‘buckets’ check-out the [...]
November 10, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Snippets, Software development, Tools, Tutorials
Social Tagging: commandline • script • subversion • Tools
Filed under: Snippets, Software development, Tools, Tutorials
Social Tagging: commandline • script • subversion • Tools
This is just a link to a very good tutorial on how to make your own SVN post-commit hook using a PHP script. It sends the following information via email: Committer name Commit message List of files edited Diff of changes made http://techchorus.net/writing-php-script-send-svn-commit-changeset-email-notification
July 30, 2009 by marco · 2 Comments
Filed under: Linux, Software development, Tools
Social Tagging: development • Serverstuff • subversion • team • Tools
Filed under: Linux, Software development, Tools
Social Tagging: development • Serverstuff • subversion • team • Tools
As a development team we always run into situations where we have trouble setting up a proper development environment for each of the team members to get going or add new staff on the go. It annoyed me every time since it causes a lot of unnecessary communication and friction. I often heard of virtualization [...]
March 13, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Articles, Software development, Tools
Social Tagging: development • Productivity • Tools
Filed under: Articles, Software development, Tools
Social Tagging: development • Productivity • Tools
Find out interesting thoughts and experiences about the selection and usage of a frameworks for your projects in this set of slides ‘Living with Frameworks‘ by Stuart Herbert, Technical Manager at www.gradwell.com. You will learn about: How frameworks save you time (=money) and ensure quality but can also waste resources if applied in another way the [...]
February 26, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Read-Write-Web, Snippets, Tools, XML
Social Tagging: script • search engines • Tools • XML
Filed under: Read-Write-Web, Snippets, Tools, XML
Social Tagging: script • search engines • Tools • XML
I just hacked together a very simple class and CLI script to help me generate Google sitemap XML on a daily basis using PHP. If you have not yet heard of it: Google sitemaps help you promote your content if you have certain deep links that only show up if a visitor for example performs [...]
February 15, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Productivity, Tools
Social Tagging: Tools • webapp
Filed under: Productivity, Tools
Social Tagging: Tools • webapp
EtherPad is a free webbsased editor which lets people remotely and simultaneously edit the same text document. Just click ‘Create new Pad‘ and you see the URL which you can send to your remote friend(s). Use it for group development on code snippets, catch realtime meeting minutes, brainstorming ideas and many things more… Thanks AppJet [...]
January 24, 2009 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Productivity, Tools
Social Tagging: Productivity • Tools
Filed under: Productivity, Tools
Social Tagging: Productivity • Tools
I was using a factory like this $factory = new Object_Factory(); $curr_object = $factory->create(‘brand’); to generate instances of objects I needed and wondered why Eclipse could not auto-complete e.g. getters and setters in my code for me later on for the $curr_object. My productivity and my motivation to type all that stuff were seriously suffering… [...]
gt5 is a handy shellscript that extends the linux command du (disk usage). It can be run from the console or remotely over ssh. Nothing to be installed. It uses GNU tools like head, sed, awk and lynx. It generates html which is then passed to lynx to be displayed. You can install it via: [...]
October 27, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Software development, Tools
Social Tagging: Tools
Filed under: Software development, Tools
Social Tagging: Tools
Browsershots loads a given URL, using different browsers on different OSses and generates a screenshot for each one. You can also specify window size, JavaScript-ing and Flash version. Simply enter your URL and wait until your ‘job’ has been processed. Finally you will see a screen like the one on the left. http://browsershots.org
The advanced packaging tool has a built in cow. A nice piece of programmer humor.
October 23, 2008 by marco · Comments Off
Filed under: Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: mySQL • php • scripts • Tools
Filed under: Snippets, Tools
Social Tagging: mySQL • php • scripts • Tools
I had a bunch of .dbf (source was Lotus Approach) files, at which I wanted to shoot SQL-like queries to generate some meaningful reports. So there were 2 tasks to be accomplished: Read the data into a tool or database and formulate and perform the queries to generate results to base your reports on. As [...]
It’ a nice idea, to have a magnetic character for each developer on your project planning boards. Design your characters on the Soutpark-Studio-Website: http://www.sp-studio.de This is me: [2008-08-07] You can do it with the Simpsons too: http://www.simpsonsmovie.com
Here is a tool which generates loads of random passwords: pwgen. On Debian you can install it with ‘apt-get install pwgen’.
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