I have a spare web cam lying around, and figured it would be a great addition to set it up so it can take regular photos of our lounge when we’re away on holiday. I did a quick Google, and managed to get a rudimentary solution running in less than... [Read More]

Every now and then, even as an administrator on a machine, you hit a folder that you just cannot delete. The usual route is to take ownership of the folder and it’s child files and folders, but once in a blue moon this doesn’t work and you’re stuck with a... [Read More]

We’re switching to git (on github.com) at the moment, and I really wanted to use it properly instead of just relying on the GIU clients. I decided to learn it using the command-line, and I found this excellent tutorial online which really helped me understand some of the fundamentals: http://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/.... [Read More]

Programmatically creating tickets in a Trac system using the recommended approach of XmlRpc is actually fairly straight-forward. The documentation and various sources were confusing to me at first, so I thought I would document the steps I went through to set it up. For me, I had a basic Trac... [Read More]

Our Jenkins build server is only accessed internally, so there was never any real reason to put authentication on it. However, I recently added QA Deployments to the build server and we’d like to implement production releases too, so I figured now was a good time to add Active Directory... [Read More]