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Logstalgia from Remote server

Remote graphical apache log monitoring via Logstalgia is a simple little graphical way to watch traffic on your website. Install via sudo apt-get install logstalgia Run via ssh [email protected] “tail -f /var/logs/apache/access_log” | logstalgia –

Posted on September 23, 2009 at 12:55 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Install Xapian on Mac – Text Search in real time

I installed xapian today on a Mac 10.5.7 and it worked seamlessly, so I’m just passing on the goodies that are xapian.  Generally you won’t need to install xapian on a Mac unless it is Dev work. http://wiki.github.com/robertbrook/kb/xapian-install-on-mac-osx curl -O http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.7/xapian-core-1.0.7.tar.gz curl -O http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.0.7/xapian-bindings-1.0.7.tar.gz tar xvzf xapian-core-1.0.7.tar.gz tar xvzf xapian-bindings-1.0.7.tar.gz cd xapian-core-1.0.7 ./configure make sudo […]

Posted on September 21, 2009 at 7:20 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 Webcam – Logitech for the win – S 5500

Wanting a webcam for my machine to use on skype (Yes, skpye does work on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit) I wasn’t sure which to buy.  So I didn’t get any, and just got a mic. Well later one of the office junkys said he had a spare and gave it to me.  A Logitech S […]

Posted on August 10, 2009 at 3:31 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Firefox 3.5 Goodness

As an update to a previous post about Firefox Memory Leak where I said that I frequently saw 1.4GB of ram used by Firefox 3.0. Well I am pleased to announce that I have not seen Firefox memory to anywhere above 512MB!! Well done Firefox Team!  This makes my machine much more bearable and allows […]

Posted on July 14, 2009 at 10:11 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Connect is live

Well after a lot of hard work yesterday I launched a huge feature into our website Made From New Zealand.  I quickly fixed up a couple issues straight after deployment and now everything seems to be ticking along nicely. It is a huge relief getting it up and in the real world where it can […]

Posted on July 14, 2009 at 10:00 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Mac Lowercase Uppercase Folder names

My developer ran into this problem today, he couldn’t have two folders named the same but with different capitalisation.  I run Ubuntu so it works fine for me. The reason this came up is we were trying to run someone’s website which had two folders, named the same but with different capitalisation (e.g “ATS” and […]

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 4:26 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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What’s instore for Made From New Zealand?

I Jordan Daniel Carter am currently the lead developer for Made From New Zealand.  We are currently working on a lot of exciting features which will be focused on interaction and getting more involvement and engagement from you. There is a lot of exciting things happening under the hood of Made From New Zealand.  We […]

Posted on June 7, 2009 at 5:58 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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svn2git – How To – svn2git not found

I have tried to move a svn repo to git thismorning and have been having great trouble. Firstly, I work from a Mac.  This is not by choice, but was my only option.  It was that or paper and pen.. Now I have been working here for a while I have a linux build in […]

Posted on June 2, 2009 at 11:59 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 2 Comments
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