Category: Developing

  • Meteor User Seed

    I have been trying to build a site with Meteor and have slowly started getting stuff working. One of the ways to populate your development data has been with database seeding. I wanted to link a user account with a document in one of my collections so I worked this out from the documentation. You…

  • Great Script to tidy Up our Photos

    I was looking for a way to tidy up out photos on the NAS at home and have tried a number of things that just did not fit the bill. they were either just to difficult or completely wrong. i then stumbled upon this blog post http://falesafe.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/photo-management/ What a gem. if you can install ruby…

  • Quest NDS Migrator LogFile Parser

    I am currently helping a customer migrate from Novell to Microsoft and they are using the Quest migrator product to move their data to new DFS servers. They currently have a large amount of data stored on a number of volumes. The sheer number of volumes and data have required that they deploy a large…

  • Bongo Admin UI Images

    I have uploaded some images of the new UI so you can see what it looks like without installing it. Please let me know what you think.      

  • Building the new Bongo Admin UI

    A while ago Alex (so_solid_moo to the IRC channel) created a php binding for the Bongo API. He also created the start of the new UI that we are working towards. We started with the admin ui for now as we have created a user interface with the roundcube project that Alex also integrated with.…

  • Creating a Two Node Mysql Cluster On Ubuntu With DRBD Part 2

    This blog is a follow on from a blog post I wrote ages ago and have eventually got round to finishing it off

  • Learning Ruby and rBongo with WeBongo

    This post should have been written quite a while ago as I wanted to start documenting my efforts to learn to program using Ruby. As most of you know I have been trying for a while to teach myself to programe. I started my efforts with a course in c# at a company in London,…

  • Bongo-Project.org Needs To Be Renamed

    The Bongo-Project needs to be renamed Now before you fall of your chair or swallow your phone while reading this let me explain why. I have been wanting to create this post for sometime now and have been holding off as we are almost ready for our 1.0 release. The problem I have is that…

  • Standing up and being counted.

    I have for some time now been wondering how many people actually use Bongo. The reason for this is that we have had images available for a while and I am still non the wiser as to how many people actually use them. I faithfully spend hours and hours building packages and getting them out…

  • vMware workstation 6.5.3 on openSUSE 11.2

    I have just upgraded to 11.2 from ubuntu 9.10 on my IBM / Lenovo T61 laptop. ( I will post a better blog about that later) What I wanted to mention here is that the current vMware workstation 6.5.3 does not want to run on my system. I have found this post http://k—–k.blogspot.com/2009/09/install-vmware-workstation-653-on.html Which has…