There are 4 articles written in January, 2013

Frontend testing with phantomjs and casperjs

on January 29, 2013. in Development, Programming. A 7 minute read.

I am not usually fond of doing much frontend stuff, but I do like to dable in some javascript from time to time. Nothing fancy, no node.js, coffeescript and the likes for me. I still feel like making applications on the server side, and have the client just show things to the user. If needed some 3rd party javascript library or framework to make my life easier, and that’s about it.

Gnucash 4.2 with SQLite3 on GNU/Linux

on January 22, 2013. in Software, Development. A 1 minute read.

For a while I was trying to figure out how to convert the Gnucash XML file to an SQLite3 database. From version 4.2, Gnucash supports PostrgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3. Since then, the conversion is apparently simple as choosing File -> Save As … and picking a different data format. Thing is, my Gnucash instance didn’t have that! After some google-fu, turns out I was missing a library called libdbi-dbd-sqlite. After installing the missing library, suddenly the save works as it should. Why Gnucash didn’t pull this dependency (even if it’s optional) when I first installed it, is beyond me. But it’s there now and I can be on my marry way to draw fancy graphs with all this easily accessible, sweet data.

A monkey with a banana

on January 08, 2013. in Blablabla, Free time. A 4 minute read.

From time to time I browse through the local board shop’s website, especially the “Longboard” section, because, well, I have recently developed this passion for longboarding. Few weeks back, just sometimes before Christmas, I was doing the same. Just casually browsing around, nothing that would catch my interest. And then, there it was, at the bottom of the page. A banana board. “Oh my, a real beauty”, I thought to myself. The price was also in the affordable range. But, a problem was that I really couldn’t, justify to buy it.

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2012 - 'twas a fine year!

on January 01, 2013. in Blablabla, Free time. A 4 minute read.

2012 was a real fine year, filled with travel, friends, work, longboards, books. A couple of beers found their way in my belly, too. The best part is that I honestly can’t remember that a single bad thing happened this year. Most likely because it didn’t. Pure awesomeness.

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