At a recent ThoughtWorks techy meetup, we recorded a couple of videos for internal use. One of them involved someone speaking to slides. The problem was that we had no projector, and our flip camera wasn’t really up to doing a great job of filming the screen. So the problem I was faced with was [...]
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Tagged: garageband, handbrake, imovie, keynote, osx, screencast, video
I knocked this up to help testing on something I’ve been working on in my spare time. It would be a trivial exercise to extend this to build pages for specific URLs – this example returns the same markup for any example. The old codehaus site for Jetty contain lots of examples of how to [...]
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Tagged: programming, scala
Now we’ve worked out what files you want backed up, and we’ve sorted automatic authentication, the only thing left to do is schedule our backups. Unfortunately we can’t make use of the very handy iSync or Backup tools to do this (Apple don’t seem keen on opening up these tools up, as they no-doubt help [...]
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In our last part, we used rsync to connect to a remote server to perform incremental backups. The problem is that we really want this to be automatic. Scheduling when a backup occurs is actually fairly simple. What is more work is performing automatic authentication so our backup can occur without user intervention. Authentication using [...]
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If you’ve been using computers for a while, chances are you’ve lost valuable data more than once. Most computers nowadays come with CD writers (and many with DVD writers) which is great for the occasional manual backup – there is even the nice OSX-specific iSync tool which remind you when to perform the backup, and [...]
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