Archive for October, 2008

SUMO Paint

I am always tweaking images for one reason or another, sometimes for a client sometimes for me, but this looks handy…
Sumopaint is a fast, easy, simple but powerful image editing software.
Try it out here: http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint

How did I miss this one?

Another photo of mine has been used, this time from my Japan set.
The site is here: http://www.tfm.co.jp/planet/081013.html

Use Gmail as a network drive

This is awesome:
Windows only: Mount more than one Gmail account as a remote disk drive with free utility Gmail Drive Config.
- thanks to lifehacker
Yes, it could all disappear but this has now replaced my old WebDAV solution…

A photo on Yahoo!

I don’t know how long this will last but I have a photo on Yahoo! now too: http://au.travel.yahoo.com/guide/australia/victoria/cape-otway/index.html

TAC, apart from your impossible processes you now also expose me to this…

I was in a road vehicle accident in Melbourne on 4 October 2006. It was nasty but I survived, though I still have a number of permanent or ongoing issues including flashbacks, high blood pressure and more. I also found out some new issues while learning how to surf!
Yes I survived but my quality of [...]

I am impressed: Pentaho looks great

As a symptom of developing applications I have dealt with a lot of reporting and BI tools. From Cognos through to Crystal and others. But last night I finally spun up Pentaho.
Wow. I was impressed.
I grabbed their Reporting Evaluation tool and had it up and running in no time. I hooked up a MySQL datasource [...]

Top 5 things to do? Take one off my list!

So what are things I would really like to do at the moment?

Travel India (if I must be pushed, FOR NOW, to limit my travels to one country)
Learn to surf – Done! I did this on Saturday 25 October 2008 and I still have one more lesson to go, though I have a large number [...]

Steps to Elightenment…

A photo in my Cambodia set has been published on Spiritual In Spirit Quotes. Cool!

Getting SVN keyword expansion happening in Tortoise SVN

Sounds easy enough, and here are the steps:
1. Firstly access the settings file of SVN through the Tortoise context menu (right-click).

2. Enable automatic properties in the miscellany section.

[miscellany]
enable-auto-props = yes

3. Add the file extensions and keywords you want to be activated.

[auto-props]
*.html = svn:keywords=Date Id Rev Author URL
*.js = svn:keywords=Date Id Rev Author URL
*.css = svn:keywords=Date [...]

How to generate an SSH key with PuTTY on Windows

Assuming you have already grabbed PuTTY, you can generate a key with PuTTY using the instructions below:

Run puttygen.exe
In the “Parameters” section select your encryption standard, I use SSH2 DSA. Press Generate.
Move your mouse randomly in the small screen in order to generate the key pairs.
Enter a key comment, which will serve to identify the key [...]