Automatically switch your mvn settings
2012-10-18A simple shell function to automatically switch between different Maven settings.xml files based on the current network environment, useful for when you’’re moving between work and home.
A guide on how to configure Mercurial to accept a self-signed SSL certificate from a repository by adding the certificate’’s fingerprint to the ~/.hgrc file.
The simplest way to create pdf's from images
2012-07-01A one-line command using ImageMagick’’s convert to easily create a PDF file from a series of images.
Using StarCluster for some heavy computing
2012-06-17A walkthrough of using StarCluster on Amazon EC2 to set up a computing cluster for batch-processing a large number of photos with ImageMagick.
Local postfix as relay to Amazon SES
2012-06-08A quick guide for experienced Linux users on how to set up a local Postfix server to act as a relay to Amazon Simple Email Service (SES).
A quick tip on how to access request parameters directly within a Grails domain class using RequestContextHolder.
GMail Backup
2011-02-28A reminder to back up your Gmail account, with links to resources on how to do it, in light of recent news about Google losing user emails.
The simplest backup solution ever...
2010-11-17A simple backup solution using a Groovy script to generate rsync commands for backing up files from multiple remote hosts.