I’ve been using Logentries for a couple of months now to manage variou project logs and have found it to be extremely convenient. If you want to retrofit a crontab or any other process to use the ...
Adding LinkedIn Share Support to Octopress
I was looking for a plugin or an include to easily add LinkedIn support to the share options for my posts. A quick Google search came up dry, so I figured I’d just roll my own. In order to acco...
First Royalty Statement
Just a quick update on Redmine Plugin Extension and Development. I received my first royalty statement today, which basically just indicates that not enough books have sold to exceed the advance I ...
Subversion + Ruby on Heroku via Buildpacks
Back in 2012, I wrote a post about Redmine and Subversion on Heroku that involved some funky hacks in order to build a working svn binary that could be uploaded as part of your Git payload. This c...
Troubleshooting a Mongoid Connection Issue
I’ve been struggling with an issue for a while now regarding Mongoid connections just freezing when the host is not on localhost. I’ve tried posting this on stack overflow and GitHub, but haven’t r...
Accessing a running process' STDOUT
I’m currently doing a lot of scripting at work. Although the primary environment is Windows, I have to manage some Linux processes as well. One example is a series of PowerShell scripts I’ve writt...
Redmine Plugin Extension and Development: Published!!!
Well, it’s official. The journey I began over six months ago has finally come to an end, and Redmine Plugin Extension and Development has officially been published :) I plan on doing a “post-mor...
Production Timeline
Well, it’s been a long (longer than anticipated) journey, but Redmine Plugin Extension and Development (code number 8748OS) is in the final stages of production. Since I wanted to share a bit more...
Final Rewrites Over 50% Done
This is just a quick post to update everyone that chapters 1, 2 and 3 of Redmine Plugin Extension and Development have been submitted to Packt with final revisions. Chapter 8 as well as the Appendi...
First Round of Rewrites Completed!
This is just a quick update that I’ve finally finished the first round of rewrites for the upcoming Redmine Plugin Extension and Development book. The issue I was struggling with was little more t...