Adding a progress bar to Mercurial
Most open source projects seem to use Git, but there are a few which have opted for Mercurial instead, most notably Mozilla projects such as Firefox and Thunderbird. For some inexplicable reason,…
Choosing a language and GUI toolkit
I'm currently working on a piece of software for a start-up company. As this is a completely new product, I'm in the unusual situation of being able to choose the technology…
Ansible and Git talk and workshop
I'm pleased to announce that I will be giving a talk entitled Configuration Management with Ansible and Git at the FLOSS UK Spring conference in March. The abstract for the talk…
Show all Apache virtual host definitions
A couple of weeks ago I was trying to work out why a given Apache virtual host wasn't serving the correct content. I knew which virtual hosts I'd defined and enabled…
Co-working at MadLab
As of this week I've started renting a desk in MadLab, an event space in central Manchester which I've visited many times as it hosts a number of community groups.…
Deleting branches in Git
For some projects, the workflow I use in Git is to create a new branch for every new feature or bug fix. This works well for keeping things separate, but…
Supporting a BSD project
The latest edition of bsdtalk is a recording of a talk from vBSDCon entitled Supporting a BSD Project. It's well worth listening to if you've ever wanted to know how the BSD projects --…
SSL in irssi
After getting IPv6 working,I also wanted to move all my IRC connections over to SSL, because I think you should use secure protocols wherever possible. The easiest way to do…
IPv6 in irssi
irssi is a fantastic console client for connecting to IRC which I use on a daily basis. However, it defaults to connecting via IPv4, even for dual-stack servers. Fortunately you can…
Oggcamp 2015 and unconference lessons
Yesterday I went to Oggcamp, an annual unconference for general geek stuff which was held in Liverpool. I really enjoyed the event, and a big thanks are due to all…