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On The Move

The first time I remember moving house, I was about 6 or 7 years old, and the whole process appeared to be magic. I guess that my parents didn’t feel like they needed my help, since from my point of view, I simply left our house in Orchard Drive to go to school and then […]

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Tiny

Exciting news! After our previous failed attempt, JTA and I have successfully made another proto-baby. This one’s called Tiny, and has made it past the 12 week mark. Even better, it’s got arms and legs and a heartbeat and moves around all by itself. Progress! My due date is New Year’s Eve, which is a […]

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What makes a good test?

I’m currently putting the finishing touches to a seminar on building simple automated tests for webpages with Selenium. As part of the session, I’ve got a section which talks about the elements of a good test. I’d actually finished writing it and was pretty pleased with the result when I suddenly realised that I’d pulled […]

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Adding email aliases to Alfresco folders via CMIS

This took me a ridiculously long time to figure out, largely because there isn’t any documentation. So, in case anyone else out there needs to know how to do it, here’s how you set an alias on a node in an Alfresco repository in Java (via OpenCMIS and the Alfresco OpenCMIS Extensions).   try { […]

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Disclosure

Disclaimer: This story doesn’t have a happy ending. Bearing in mind some of the people who might read this, I thought I’d say up front that my tribe and I are all coping OK, and are still feeling delighted for our more fortunate friends. I don’t want there to be awkwardness, but I couldn’t cope […]

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Gotcha of the day – Apache Basic Authentication on Windows

I’ve just lost almost an entire day to this, so in case anyone else ever runs up against the same problem, I thought I’d document it here. The issue Trying to setup Trac on Windows (I know, I know – not my choice!), I found I couldn’t log in to my Trac project using Apache’s […]

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Rearranging Ticket Fields in Trac

Trac will allow you to specify an order for custom fields, but there’s currently no way to change the order of inbuilt ticket fields, either out of the box or through any of the plugins on Trac Hacks. You can still change the order, but it involves taking a copy of the ticket template source […]

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Moving on

It’s over. I’m ending it. I’ve found something better. We’ve been together in an on-again, off-again sort of way since I was a naive young student. We’ve had our good times, but recently it hasn’t been working for me. You’re not holding my interest, and I know I’m not making you happy the way I […]