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The following Groovy PostBuild script can be used to send build notification to Telegram via a Telegram bot account. Note, that this is just using the HTTP POST API, meaning that you can’t interact with Jenkins via Telegram. The message … Continue reading →

To cut to the chase, to use the Samsung K3 on Linux you need to use the MTP protocol, supplied by libmtp, and supported by mtp-tools, Rhythmbox (>=0.11), gnomad2 and amarok. (Credits for this tip go to Linux-Club.de). All of … Continue reading →

 The keywords system is plone is ok, but it’s not great. There is a few alternative such as Portal Taxonomy, and it is quite well discussed elsewhere. However, most systems I’ve seen replace the keywords system entirely, meaning that only … Continue reading →

This is a bit of a saga, so I’ll do a quick intro before I get to the guts of it. I purchased a house in December 2006, and after a month or so living there I noticed a scratching … Continue reading →

I have a server box I look after that is buried deep inside a private network, behind the most restrictive of firewalls, which normally means I have to physically visit the site to perform any maintenance. To be able to … Continue reading →

These are some preliminary results for roof colour tests I am conducting. The setup is 8 equal sized pieces of roofing material, some painted with different coloured roof paints. They were left out in full 12noon summer sun (Lat 19 … Continue reading →

With this handy little util, flash video player, and ffmpeg to do the conversion it is easy to embed videos in your website, without having to use a video sharing site like youtube. This is of great importance to intranets, … Continue reading →

I think my cpanel host recently upgraded some software on their server, and suddenly all my usual proceedures for rolling out web apps broke, with Internal server errors and this in the error log “error: directory is writable by others”. … Continue reading →