My first open source commit

March 11, 2013

This is a VERY small patch, but still, I’m a little bit proud that my first try to commit a patch to an open source project was accepted http://bugs.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/15669

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AutoHotkey MouseMove not working in Virtualbox

March 6, 2013

A simple solution for me was to disable mouse integration (Host key + I).

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Weekly review: Week ending February 16, 2013

February 16, 2013

Trying to get into the routine of writing these updates again… Work Launched a customized Magento shop Relationships Borrowed childrens books at the library Ordered new prescriptions for the kids Commented on the city’s family evaluation plan Life Tried out new contact lenses No concrete plans for next week yet.

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SmartOS configuration notes

January 15, 2013

Some notes about my experimentations with SmartOS (for personal use). Change keymap Default is US, to change, add a line to /usbkey/config like this: default_keymap=denmark Source VirtualBox networking * Set VirtualBox NIC to NAT mode * Set SmartOS configuration (during install) to: IP: 10.0.2.15 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Default gateway: 10.0.2.2 Source Installing a Joyent VM (zone) [...]

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Minimize (almost) any window to the systray

January 13, 2013

“RBTray is a small Windows program that runs in the background and allows almost any window to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.” This is a nice tool that runs perfectly well on Windows 8 with minimal resource usage. It works with any window I tried yet, doesn’t require [...]

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Installing Caldecott on Windows

November 30, 2012

Caldecott is a ruby gem required for e. g. tunneling to AppFog services. This short writeup explains how to get it running on Windows. I wrote this because I received the following error trying to establish a tunnel to a MySQL instance on AppFog: To use `af tunnel’, you must first install Caldecott: gem install [...]

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