Last Thursday I put up a post at Shine Technologies blog titled Couchtato - A CouchDB Document Utility Tool Written In Node.js. It’s a short introduction to Couchtato, a little hobby project I worked on over several evenings and lunch breaks.
Do check it out if you are a CouchDB and NodeJS user.
After 5.5 years, 140 posts, 550 comments, and 270 tags…
this blog attracts about 7000 monthly visits,
and has a Google PageRank of 5.
Not too bad for a little blog, eh?
As of the time of writing, CouchDB-Lucene (v0.6.0) distribution was bundled with Jetty WebServer and runnable from command line. But if you dive a little bit into the code, you’ll find that the run script basically executes com.github.rnewson.couchdb.lucene.Main, which in turn (1) reads the couchdb-lucene.ini config, (2) creates a Jetty Server, and (3) sets up com.github.rnewson.couchdb.lucene.LuceneServlet on the server.
At work, we had to use Tomcat due to SOE reason, so I spent a bit of time trying to get CouchDB-Lucene running on Tomcat and get it deployed as a .war file. Here’s how we did it, please note that this is the tedious way of doing it, all because I had to integrate CouchDB-Lucene into an existing web app. There’s an easier way to build a .war file mentioned at the end of this post.
Yesterday, Jenkins BuildMonitor Firefox Add-on surpassed 20,000 downloads. I uploaded the first version on June 8th, 2008, so that’s almost 3 years ago, and there have been 26 releases since.
On average, there are about 2500-2700 active daily users on weekdays. That became the basis of my release mantra: “Let’s not piss 2500 people off.”
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The top locales are en-US, de, en-GB, fr, ja, pl. We’ve got en, fr, and ja locales covered https://github.com/jenkinsci/firefox-extension-buildmonitor/tree/master/src/main/resources/firefox/chrome/locale. Any German or Polish translator around? please feel free to submit a pull request.
Disclaimer: the title is just a disguise for feature request/suggestion to the fine folks at Apps Perhaps. But I do really think that watching TV should be more social over the web, and Apps Perhaps’ OzTV iPhone app hopefully has the opportunity to turn this into reality.
Four hours ago I started watching the gran finale of Iron Chef series run on SBS, Hiroyuki Sakai vs Alain Passard (it was awesome!), and the first thing I did after the show finished an hour later was to search for “Iron Chef” on Twitter, I wanted to find out other people’s comments regarding the episode. Sure I found many related tweets, but the search result was polluted by some other tweets about Iron Chef in general and had nothing to do with that particular episode.
The hours are much less compared to ten years ago, but coding after work is still the best way to unwind and relax.
I started reading GPF Comics when I just started working the IT industry in 2001. The above strip has always been my favourite, geeks on coding as a hobby :).
GPF Comics website still keeps its retro design from the late 90s.
After the first few weeks of using an iPhone, I learned that reading the content of most websites on a mobile phone was such an unpleasant experience. The texts were tiny and hard to read, the ads were distracting, I kept having to zoom in and out, scroll vertically and horizontally. In short, I spent most of the time trying to navigate the content instead of reading the content.
I know there are already some solutions out there that somewhat tackle this problem, but none of them is simple enough to my liking. So that’s why I wrote FeedTouch. (Note: even if there’s a simpler solution that I didn’t know of, I’d still write it anyway :p)
I found some of my old hand drawings when I visited my parents’ house in Jakarta earlier this year. I used to draw a lot when I was still in elementary and junior high school, nothing awesome, but I guess it wasn’t too bad for someone at that age.
Back then I was really into soccer and basketball, and for a reason I can no longer remember, I often incorporated elements of a soccer ball or a basketball in my drawings.
Last week we had an early XMas celebration over at Shine Technologies office, geekin’ it with some Lego Mindstorms.
We had to wire up some logic blocks for the Lego robot to use in a simple maze. The goal was to traverse a path within the maze, the challenge was to pass some obstacles like opening a gate, executing several turns, and opening a door handle.
Our robot, all kudos to @manishchhabra27 for revving it up.
This sign was bolted on the front wall up to the third letter before some body corporate police appeared out of nowhere and pointed out that it’s against their rules.
So we had to improvise and placed the sign above the door frame for now.
Time to start planning to overthrow the current body corporate.