Flying high on iCal files
I’m responsible for taking out the trash. Yes, this is a cliché, I admit it. But it is like it is. The problem with that isn’t the trash itself, but rather that I’m really bad with remembering dates. But luckily, my home town’s disposal company offers an iCal download of the pickup dates on their website.
Packer with base images
…or: How I made Puppetdev. I don’t like making things twice. You could call that „innovative“ or „efficient“. Basically, it’s just laziness. For Puppetdev, which is built using Packer, I needed base images, so I wouldn’t have to cope with ISO urls, kickstart files and such. Luckily, the wonderful guys at boxcutter provide Packer templates
Easy puppet testing with Vagrant
We’re using Puppet to automate many tasks and – together with other components – allow continuous delivery. However, testing puppet manifests, Hiera settings and installing puppet modules can be tedious – especially when you want to test on a clean system each time. Announcing „puppetdev“, a Vagrant box for easily doing those things: Install puppet modules
Building a Zimbra Server Extension using Maven
I’m currently working on a project for a customer involving several parts for Zimbra (well, whaddya know?) – one is a server extension. And I’d like to have the features, Maven brings in my workflow. The problem is, that Zimbra isn’t really made to be used in Maven. The components you need to create server
Announcing SOCKO!
I’m currently working on automating our deployments and specifically automatically generating configuration files for different targets. I tried using Puppet for that (I mean, it’s a configuration management system), but failed, because the kind of configuration files we’re dealing with here is way too complex for it. I was basically searching for a framework, that renders multiple files
Converting nbz to d64 on Mac
The very specific title of this post should lure Mac users here, that have read about the C64 preservation project releasing tons of C64 disk images and downloaded the stuff just to see, that most of the images are in the nbz format, which seems to be a compressed version of the raw conversion format from the old 1541 II-disk
Hello js-zimbra, Goodbye Zimbra!
As I’m currently rewriting most of my scripts here from Python to JavaScript (see this blog post), I also needed a JavaScript-version of the Python zimbra library. So I wrote one. This one is available through npm and, again, simplifies the workflow authenticating and communicating with the Zimbra SOAP Api. The library, however, is no
CLI applications in Javascript
Well, yeah.
I’ve been creating CLI applications (the beardy admin says „scripts“) for a while now in various languages and settled in Python for the last years. Sadly however, in my company there seem to be only so many people, that develop in Python. So I had to leave Python behind and needed something else.
Using a Confluence page as a base page for a user macro
If you’re using Confluence (like I do at work) and have been digging around the user macros feature, this might be something for you.
Using mc-wrapper.sh on a Mac
If you like the nice curses based „Finder“ from the unix world called „Midnight commander“ and would like to use the supplied mc-wrapper.sh-Script, that changes the current working directory to mc’s last selected one, you’re a bit lost on the Mac platform, because it doesn’t work. (I’ve installed mc using the wonderful Homebrew) Why? Interesting you ask.