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The Mantis plugins keep coming: Tag Column

March 8, 2010

Over the week­end, I intro­duced a plu­gin for the Man­tis bug track­ing sys­tem that enforeced a “fixed-in” ver­sion when resolv­ing an issue as fixed.  If you missed it, you can visit the Force­FixedIn project page or the related blog post.
Today, I would like to add another Mantis-related plu­gin to my list of projects.  This one, […]

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Forcing a fixed-in version with the Mantis bug tracker

March 6, 2010

At the office, we use Man­tis, a pow­er­ful PHP-based bug track­ing sys­tem.  It offers some great con­trol over process and work­flow, but not quite the gran­u­lar­ity that I need.  Specif­i­cally, I work in an envi­ron­ment where it is vital that the “fixed-in” ver­sion is filled in when resolv­ing an issue as “fixed.”  With­out this, there […]

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The simplicity of WordPress upgrades

March 5, 2010

One of the com­plaints I have heard about not run­ning your own Word­Press instal­la­tion ver­sus going with a man­aged ser­vice like Blog­ger or Live­Jour­nal is that it is dif­fi­cult to main­tain.  Specif­i­cally, that it is dif­fi­cult to upgrade.  This is why, about six months ago, a worm went around and took down a bunch of […]

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On Google Chrome (Mac, Linux, and nightly builds)

January 11, 2010

On Google Chrome
As you may have heard, Google is work­ing on a web browser called Chrome.  There have been beta ver­sions out for Win­dows and Linux for some time.  The Mac ver­sion is still play­ing catch-up.  Because Fire­fox, the browser I now use, has appeared to get more slow and clunky over time, I […]

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Netninja site changes: Hipster PDA & Code

December 29, 2009

Back­ground
I have talked about my rela­tion­ship with the Hip­ster PDA for years.  It is a sort of love/hate thing.  I find that the basics are invalu­able.  I really love all the beau­ti­ful lit­tle tem­plates and forms that peo­ple have made for the 3″ x 5″ form fac­tor.  Alas, I find that most — if not […]

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LJProxy: From friend-locked LiveJournal posts to Google Reader

November 30, 2009

I have been on Live­Jour­nal since 2001.  I have had a Per­ma­nent Account since 2005.  Many of my friends have used it for sim­i­lar amounts of time.  In the past few years, I have migrated my post­ing and read­ing off of Live­Jour­nal.  I do most of my blog read­ing through Google Reader, but still have […]

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Snazzy-Archives, Filtered

November 28, 2009

Note that this post is a dupli­cate of the Snazzy-Archives, Fil­tered project page, here at Net­ninja, and copied into the blog.  It has been inserted here to make it part of the blog time­line, RSS, and what­not so that it gets noticed.  Com­ments are dis­abled on this post but enabled on the project page, so […]

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Shortening with YOURLS and Tweetie 2 for iPhone

October 22, 2009

A few months back, around the pos­si­ble demise of the tr.im URL short­en­ing ser­vice, there was a sud­den rise in pop­u­lar­ity with run­ning your own URL short­ener on your own bou­tique URL.  That was when I set up Ninja Me (nja.me) using YOURLS.  At the time, I reverse-engineered the undoc­u­mented API enough to hack Twitter-Tools […]

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The psychology of Wordpress upgrades & plugins

October 19, 2009

Word­Camp Port­land was last month.  Although Word­Press 2.8 has made upgrad­ing one-click easy, there was a lot of shared sen­ti­ment about upgrades and plu­g­ins.  These beliefs boil down into two groups and are sum­ma­rized with the fol­low­ing statements:

“I don’t run Word­Press with any plu­g­ins what­so­ever because an upgrade to the core of Word­Press could break […]

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900,000 Chutes & Ladders per hour

September 13, 2009

Every Thurs­day at work, dur­ing our lunch hour, sev­eral of us get together to play board games.  We play a dif­fer­ent game each week, and aside from a few tries at new games, we tend to rotate through the same three or four games each week.  In an attempt to add a lit­tle vari­ety, we […]

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The Apple keyboard under Linux, revisited

August 27, 2009

Since I made my orig­i­nal blog post about using the Apple key­board under Linux two years ago, did a bit more refine­ment to the process.  I don’t think I blogged about it, but did post a few instruc­tions and con­fig­u­ra­tion files to my “notes to myself” wiki at Stack­Over­flow (no, not THAT StackOverflow).

To this day, […]

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Ninja Me!

August 13, 2009

In the last cou­ple of days, the inter­net world (and more specif­i­cally the Twit­ter world) has been all up-in-arms about the upcom­ing demise of the tr.im URL short­en­ing ser­vice (later fol­lowed by the backpedal­ing of the news).
You prob­a­bly already know the type of ser­vice.  It takes a really, really, really long URL like http://example.com/catalog/category/widgets?productid=12345&view=7&commentid=8675309&areyoureally=readingthis&mode=88 and shortens […]

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