Inspiring a Sense of Ownership

By Stuart Colville in Work on

Former colleague Mike West talks about how inspiring a team's sense of ownership around a project is the key to great things happening: http://mikewest.org/2008/11/the-inspiration-of-ownership. Quality stuff.…

Bash: Resolving Symlinks to Shellscripts

By Stuart Colville in bash on

Here's a way to resolve symlinks that call a bash shellscript. The Problem I like to be able to use something like this in my bash scripts:SCRIPTDIR=$(dirname $0) Which is great for a reference to where the script is, but it suffers from the problem that…

Ubuntu: change editor globally

By Stuart Colville in ubuntu on

I found the update-alternatives on my travels and very handy it is too especially when on a bytemark box by default the editor is set to "joe". From the man page: > update-alternatives creates, removes, maintains and displays information about the symbolic links comprising the Debian alternatives system.…

Linux: Changing UIDs and GIDs for a user

By Stuart Colville in Linux/Unix on

Just had to do a quick switch over of UID [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_identifier_(Unix)] and GIDs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_identifier_(Unix)] for a couple of users. I'm using Puppet [http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet] to manage server configurations and it'…

DjangoCon 2008

By Stuart Colville in DjangoCon on

I though it about time I put together a write-up of the First DjangoCon held at the GooglePlex in Mountain View, I enjoyed it immensely and look forward to Euro DjangoCon. Whilst we were out there our trip co-incided with a YUI 3 event so we thought it would be…

VMware Server: Convert Fixed Disk-images to Growable

By Stuart Colville in vmware on

Quick tip if you ever want to convert from a fixed disk image to an expandable one then the following command should do it: sudo vmware-vdiskmanager -r source.vmdk -t 0 expandable.vmdk Just replace "source" and "expandable" with your disk image file names. For more…