If you run Nagios and are interested in displaying your statuses on a large screen, CoffeeSaint may be worth looking at. I haven’t tried it yet, but will be taking a look in the near future.
CoffeeSaint is a fully customizable Nagios status viewer. It grabs the status from a Nagios server and displays it in [...]
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A while ago I came across twill whilst working on a testing project and thought others may also be interested. twill is essentially an open source web testing tool written in Python. twill allows you to browse the Web from a command line interface. twill supports cookies, forms and most common interactions.
Below is an example [...]
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Thanks to everyone that came along tonight to hear my talk on Google Mapplets at the Adobe User Group. The discussion went beyond Google Maps and Mapplets, but also included Street View and other mashups and location based services. For those who are unfamiliar with Google Mapplets, they are small applications that run within Google [...]
The 2008 SAGE-AU Victorian IT Symposium is a one day technical conference held in Melbourne. It is organised by the SAGE-AU Victorian Chapter and aims to provide an educational forum for systems and network administrators, system managers, developers and other technical professionals to meet and share their knowledge and experiences. This is the fifth year [...]
I went along to the first Melbourne Flex User Group meeting tonight, OzFlex. I must say it was exciting to see the enthusiasm of some of the local developers in building a community that focuses on RIA. The presentation by Matt Johnston walked through a simple AIR application highlighting the native menus and the file [...]
If you’re using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), there may come a day when you need to move the updates to another drive. Once WSUS has been installed, the WSUS Administration tool doesn’t let you do this, but you can do it using a command line tool called wsusutil found in C:\Program Files\Update Services\Tools. [...]
The local Adobe User Group is canvassing Aussies about the possibility of a Flex event in Melbourne.
Adobe Platform Evangelist Danny Dura will be in Melbourne in late January so there is a strong possibility that there will be a Flex/AIR night meeting.
The planned date is Tuesday the 29th of January, 2008.
You can register your [...]
Due to a cancellation of one of the speakers at the Melbourne Adobe User Group meeting, I gave a quick talk on Chumby. For those that don’t already know about Chumby, it’s a wi-fi, always-on, low end consumer device that runs Linux as its operating system and Flash Lite 3.0 for it’s applications. It’s a [...]
For anyone interested in web technologies, I’ll be doing a talk tonight on Microformats at the Melbourne Adobe User Group. My talk will follow another presentation on Adobe AIR.
“After a quick discussion of the Adobe MAX Conference, a presentation will show you how you can convert HTML/Javascript, or Flash, or Flex into Adobe AIR. Afterwards [...]
