If you are creating plugins for jira/confluence here are a few pointers. The basic tutorials at atlassian are pretty good so I will not be iterating similar stuff. 1) install eclipse via homebrew cask > brew cask install eclipse-ide 2) install atlassian-sdk via homebrew > brew install atlassian-plugin-sdk 3) follow basic tutorials via (https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Set+up+the+Atlassian+Plugin+SDK+and+Build+a+Project) 4) […]

Do coffee shops and the practice of fengshui have in common? Over the years we have seen in both specialisation of coffeemakers and fengshui, gathering faithful followers; having their amid army of fans touting their uniqueness and true originality. Would Star bucks coffee taste better than Costa? Then adding to the fray, comes micro coffee […]

As I was digging up old project repos, I needed to move several mercurial repositories to git. ie. bitbucket to github. There are a few ways of doing it hg-fast-export hg-git git-remote-hg Long story short, the final method was create a folder > mkdir hgtogit > git clone hg::/path/to/your/repo Then push it up. For more […]

  From the review of domain registrars http://lifehacker.com/5943452/five-best-domain-name-registrars Here cometh the prices. Forget the alluring cheap 99 cent domain registrations for first year. Stripped down prices for long term domain names are as follows. We have broken down the prices for a forwarding email domain or with a basic email account total. Prices in USD.For […]

Javascript based live updated graphing is picking up speed for analytics and now for print. A few noted names are D3JS, rickshaw, flot, graphael. A good table of comparisons can be found at http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/javascript-graphs-and-charts-libraries Scraping off SVG graphics off your browser You can easily scrape off the graphics from your browser after running your javascript based […]

Php has been around for sometime. For sanity check this may help some. Why is this important? The default mavericks has both apache and php5.4 installed. The downside of this is php5.4 on mavericks does not have the built in imap module. I recommend method 1. For those who use homebrew for mac, method 2 […]

The digital edition – secrets of the human face and palm is a re-authored version of secrets of human face released in 2001. It includes new images and content; and is available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and many other locations. Do a search for “secrets of human face” to find it at your nearest Amazon online […]

Quote from Nodejs “[…] you need to provide Node.js 0.8 and a MongoDB server. You can then run the application by invoking node, specifying the HTTP port for the application to listen on, and the MongoDB endpoint.” A bit of self indulgence; I recommend a tool I built using samurai server kit (beta) in this […]

If you have an old machine around. You can probably bring it back to life using irish made, Linux Mint (based on ubuntu) http://www.linuxmint.com/index.php At this point i recommend using mint 13 (although its currently at 16..) xfe (low resource consumption). 13 is LTS (Long term support) meaning software support is up to 2017. The […]

Ma Zu (妈祖) is a south east asia deity in cultural taoism. A sculpture was transported to Sabah Malaysia and left in ruins. The piece of art and symbol of piece needs help and support for the construction to take place. “Mazu (traditional Chinese: 媽祖; simplified Chinese: 妈祖; pinyin: Māzǔ), also spelt Matsu and Ma-tsu, […]