by dave | Aug 29, 2013 | Computers, Software
So I was working on a conversion from a CSV dump from a student system to our internal label database. New school year, new students. I like to use the time format yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mmZ (ISO-8601, a standard format) for strings, but Pentaho Kettle has no explicit...
by dave | Jun 7, 2013 | Computers, howto, Software
My goto diff tool on Windows is the open-source WinMerge. On Linux, Ubuntu has an installable KDiff3, a member of the Qt-based KDE family of tools. At work we are using Centos 6 as our dev VM, and no installable KDiff3 is available. So the README says to $ ./configure...
by dave | May 26, 2013 | Computers, howto, Software
Seems yeoman is the best for Angular dev, like rails. Create, modify controller, views on the fly. Except it doesnt work. On Windows 8. Tried in my Centos 6 VM from work. gen a project: Error angular You don't seem to have a generator with the name karma:app...
by dave | Mar 14, 2013 | Computers, howto, Software
I spend my day in the magnificent Git Bash shell. Recently I started bring work home by pushing the project to a bare Git repository on the flash drive at B: git remote add flash /b/circdesk-android.git git push flash If the flash drive was not mounted before Git Bash...
by dave | Nov 18, 2012 | Computers, howto, Software
I use the Picasa app on Windows to use facial recognition to assist in tagging photos. Recently with the passing of a relative, I needed to locate photos with her face in them, so Picasa worked nicely. Once you find them, you can type Ctrl+A to select all the photos,...
by dave | Oct 7, 2012 | Computers, Software
At some point, Rhapsody (Windows 7) started popping error messages every time I did something in the GUI. Annoying. Found this article that described a possibility of firewall or AV software. I drilled into Internet Options, the Security tab, then looked at Trusted...
