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Diocletian’s Ruin: Opportunity Assessment

Intercepted Delaque House transmission: Filling a population resettlement the Ruin is a sparsely settled offshoot off the hive ripe for exploitation. The offshoot is connected by two main ducts to the hive proper but who know what tunnels there are

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2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it

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Testing module pattern javascript with Jasmine & Karma

Testing module pattern (http://www.adequatelygood.com/JavaScript-Module-Pattern-In-Depth.html) Javascript browser code using test runners / build systems such as grunt or gulp is difficult. They seem to expect modules to be declared as Node modules. This is annoying when you have client code that

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Brightness controls on Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 13.04

Am running a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 13.04. Overall the installation is very nice but one niggle is that the brightness controls do not always work. The following scripts have alleviated the problem: (From the thread in the Launchpad

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Auto Hibernate in Ubuntu 13.04

Make your Ubuntu notebook hibernate after a period of sleep. The Ubuntu forums here go into depth but the script from the very helpful posters is: #!/bin/bash # Script name: /etc/pm/sleep.d/0000rtchibernate # Purpose: Auto hibernates after a period of sleep

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aapt error for Android Studio on Ubuntu 13.04

While installing and trying to compile a “Hello World” program in Android Studio on Ubuntu 13.04 the following error occured: android-apt-compiler: Cannot run program “…/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/aapt”: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory The reason is that aapt relies on some

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Approaches to refactoring using Gilded Rose kata

As part of our weekly hours worth of group practice we have been working on the Gilded Rose Kata. We worked with this kata for 5-6 weeks with different pairs. We found this a very interesting kata with a number

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Installing Windows 7 Upgrade to VirtualBox SATA Drive

Install Windows XP & Windows 7 First install Windows XP Professional from installation iso image onto a suitably sized IDE drive. I choose 60 GB disk as I intend to upgrade to Windows 7. Once the installation is complete, install Windows

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Remap Caps Lock

Another quick tip. It has been said many times before but it bears repeating – how to remap Caps Lock in Windows to something far less annoying. Caps Lock, apparently a left-over from typewriters where holding down shift required quite

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Using Meld with Mercurial

A quick tooltip. Meld is a nice diff and file comparison tool. It can be used instead of WinMerge or the built in Mercurial diff tool – KDiff3. Where it improves upon WinMerge and KDiff3 is the visualization of differences between

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