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XoNoiD CRM development stopped

raspi — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:51:54 +0000

I’ve now stopped XoNoiD CRM development completely because lack of time and feedback from testers and users. Please be free to fork it for your own CRM projects.

Subversion logs to iCalendar format

raspi — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:05:30 +0000

I wanted to know when I’ve kept my vacations so I wrote small Python script to find out.

pysvnlog2ics parses SVN XML commit log and creates iCalendar .ics file from it. This resulted in many .ics files as in work I use one repository per project and over the years this count is in hundreds today. So I wrote another script – pyicalmerge which combines those .ics files to one big .ics file. Then I just uploaded that giant .ics file to Google Calendar and now I have all my commits in my calendar and can easily see the vacation gaps.

Move PostgreSQL database

raspi — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:04:58 +0000

Moving PostgreSQL database to different name is pretty hard compared to MySQL. But here’s how you do it:

$ pg_dump --no-acl --no-owner -U  -h  -Fc  > 
$ pg_restore -1 -c -U  -d  -h  --no-owner

$ pg_dump --no-acl --no-owner -U old -h 127.0.0.1 -Fc olddb > old.dump
$ pg_restore -1 -c -U newuser -d newdb -h postgresql.lan --no-owner old.dump

Adding Windows 7 drivers directly to DVD

raspi — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:12:56 +0000

If you’re familiar with Windows XP Service Pack slipstreaming, this is pretty similar.

I’m using Windows XP Professional for this.

Make ISO image from your Windows 7 DVD with your favorite software. I used CDBurnerXP.

Save install.wim somewhere on your hard drive from that ISO image or straight from DVD.

Download Windows Automated Installation Kit for your OS.

Start AIK Deployment Tools Command Prompt

cd

Mount the WIM image with write permissions:
imagex will tell which number is which Windows edition if it’s not found. I tried it first with just number 0.
Number 4 is in this case Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64 bit.

imagex /mountrw install.wim 4 c:\wim

add as many drivers as you like by using DISM
if dism says that files are essential for booting but drivers are unsigned, then add /forceunsigned parameter.

Here’s example for nvidia nforce drivers (Installer EXE extracted with 7-zip):
SATA/SATARAID/IDE/Ethernet/etc drivers:

cd c:\dl\15.51_nforce_win7_64bit_whql\ide\win764\
dism /image:c:\wim /add-driver /driver:. /recurse

cd c:\dl\15.51_nforce_win7_64bit_whql\smbus
dism /image:c:\wim /add-driver /driver:. /recurse /forceunsigned

cd c:\dl\15.51_nforce_win7_64bit_whql\smu
dism /image:c:\wim /add-driver /driver:. /recurse

cd c:\dl\15.51_nforce_win7_64bit_whql\ethernet
dism /image:c:\wim /add-driver /driver:. /recurse

..and so on for all needed drivers..

You will need to expand unexpanded driver files in some cases. Drivers are not expanded if filenames in driver directory are foo.dl_ and not foo.dll etc.

Here’s NVidia GeForce driver sample for you (Installer EXE extracted with 7-zip)

cd c:\dl\191.07_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_international_whql
mkdir c:\displaydriver
expand *.* c:\displaydriver

and then

cd c:\displaydriver
dism /image:c:\wim /add-driver /driver:. /recurse

Save the WIM image with new drivers:

unmount and commit (commit = save)

imagex /unmount /commit c:\wim

Add the install.wim back to the ISO image with your favorite ISO handling software. I used UltraISO.
Make sure that the DVD is bootable. Burn ISO as new DVD yet again with favorite burning software (CDBurnerXP).
Boot and enjoy your new Windows 7 with correct and working drivers.

Gozerbot and What is this file?

raspi — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:06:42 +0000

It’s been many years since I played with IRC bots. I’ve used eggdrop for something like 10+ years. Now I tried Gozerbot and coded plugin (source) to it which gets URLs from chat and then gives some information about them. It utilizes my other project – “what is this file?” which runs on top of Google App Engine. Everything is using Python.

First site using zfComicEngine!

raspi — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:39:21 +0000

Finnish Pikselinviilaajat IT comic is now using zfComicEngine. It was previously running on my non-opensource and age old code. I coded simple converter which corrected all the old links in HTML etc with PHP’s DOM and XML Starlet.

ZFCE has many similarities to old Pikselinviilaajat comic publishing engine but of course it’s all been rewritten.

If you want to try out zfCE, please use my demo site. I’m also looking for some people with some graphical eye so that zfCE could have more default CSS files for new users.

I’m also planning for Flash support so that you could publish animations easily too.

New translations are also welcome. Currently supported languages are Finnish and English.

http://code.google.com/p/zfcomicengine/issues/detail?id=9

Few Trac plugins

raspi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:44:31 +0000

Here’sfew plugins for Trac:

Timing and Estimation Plugin

Project manager, CEO and customer are usually not interested in count of tickets. This plugin adds new fields to tickets where you can add hour estimations and actual worked hours. It also adds checkbox for billable/not billable ticket.

Homepage

Batch modification of tickets

I found this useful when you have for example milestone Preview1 and all tickets are there. Then you release the Preview1 version. Next you create Preview2 milestone and move all open tickets from Preview1 to Preview2. No need to modify every ticket, only make a custom query and select all open tickets.

Homepage

MyDefrag

raspi — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:13:15 +0000

My computer was getting slow and I found the culprit: fragmented harddrive. So as a Super User™ I searched for better defragmentation software than Windozes own and found software called MyDefrag.

So why it’s so much better alternative than OS’s own built-in software? You can script it! It also runs as a screensaver. So I’m now getting average of 8 hours of defragmentation per day. That should keep harddrive fragmentation in order.