I.e. if your website has “.svn” folders (because you’ve forgot to exclude them from the zip or whatever) than your source code may be exposed to the anonymous users.

Two possible (and simple) solutions:

1. Exclude “.svn” folders when publishing/deploying
2. Add this to your Apache2 website configuration
   

   <Directory ~ ".*\.svn">
     Order allow,deny
     Deny from all
     Satisfy All
   </Directory>

Thanks to a suggestion from Gilles Dartiguelongue, I found that the latest glib fails if compiled with a plain -O3 optimization: the problem was solved by disabling the “ipa-cp-clone” optimization (-fno-ipa-cp-clone).

All the details can be found here.

It’s quite common to buy high definition MP3 today, but they take too much space especially if you don’t need such high quality while having your sun bath.

Lucky enough, you are a geek, so you know what’s a bash script.

So, create you collection, copying your MP3s in a dedicated folder, then run the following command

find -type f ! -name '*.low.mp3' -exec ffmpeg -i {} -ab 128K {}.low.mp3 \;

It will create 128k MP3 version of your collection (converting the format, if necessary)
When done, just delete the high quality version

find -type f ! -name '*.low.mp3' -exec rm {} \;

and copy the remaining on your MP3 player.

Wish you good vacation!

If you want to show someone the features of something, you have to set up a demo. And half the times these demos require data. And if you are setting up a demo for a business intelligence tool, data is essential!

Pentaho provides you with a dataset to use in demos and as a playground (thank you), but it’s quite difficult to set it up. An early adopter may judge this as project immatureness, while Mondrian is all but immature!

That’s what you need to set up the FoodMart database on PostgreSQL before demoing Mondrian (don’t try that with MySQL: it will take hours!)

First, locate a copy of these dependencies: log4j, eigenbase-xom, eigenbase-properties, eigenbase-resgen, commons-logging and postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar (or a suitable postgres jdbc driver): let’s say you have them in folder “mondrian/lib” and that you are in folder “mondrian”

Then write in a console:

java -cp .:lib/mondrian.jar:lib/log4j.jar:lib/eigenbase-xom.jar:lib/eigenbase-properties.jar:lib/eigenbase-resgen.jar:lib/commons-logging.jar:lib/postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar
mondrian.test.loader.MondrianFoodMartLoader
-verbose -tables -data
-jdbcDrivers=org.postgresql.Driver
-outputJdbcURL='jdbc:postgresql://localhost/mondrian?user=postgres&password=postgres'
-inputFile=demo/FoodMartCreateData.sql

Then wait for a minute.

Bah, maybe it’s just me, too comfy sat on ant and maven.

Aderisco all’appello di Diritto alla Rete contro il D.D.l. Alfano, che cerca di imbavagliare internet

#!/bin/bash
username=$(whoami)

function check_app {
	proc="$(ps aux | grep $username | grep -v $0 | grep $1 | grep -v grep)"
	if [ "$proc" != "" ]
	then
		echo "!!! Shutdown $1 first!"
		exit 1
	fi
}

function vacuum_mozillas {
	echo "Vacuuming $1..."
	find $2 -type f -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;
}

check_app firefox
check_app thunderbird
vacuum_mozillas firefox ~/.mozilla/firefox/
vacuum_mozillas thunderbird ~/.thunderbird

echo 'Done!'

While it sensibly improves start up times, don’t expect too much.

As a technical director, I thought I had the power to steer the technical part of my company but that revealed to be false. My father and his friend are the main providers of the software that let us work. I found it slow, difficult to maintain and evolve and not as productive as the company needed it to be.

I took the long way round and started providing the company with better systems, removing some daily problems.

And then I finally said that: We need to remake this software: why don’t we sit and choose if to start from the most critical parts that add the most value to our business or if to start from the boundaries and make the process slower but more predictive?
And nobody sat.
Not even my father.

It’s a professional and personal failure.

But it finally lets me open to learn something new, to re-join the community I left and to be have a better private life.

See you there folks!

UPDATE: an unexpected problem prevented me from attending :( Hope to find the slides online, at least.