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SUMO Paint

I am always tweaking images for one reason or another, sometimes for a client sometimes for me, but this looks handy…
Sumopaint is a fast, easy, simple but powerful image editing software.
Try it out here: http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint

Posted by Andrew on October 31st, 2008

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Use Gmail as a network drive

This is awesome:
Windows only: Mount more than one Gmail account as a remote disk drive with free utility Gmail Drive Config.
- thanks to lifehacker
Yes, it could all disappear but this has now replaced my old WebDAV solution…

Posted by Andrew on October 30th, 2008

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I am impressed: Pentaho looks great

As a symptom of developing applications I have dealt with a lot of reporting and BI tools. From Cognos through to Crystal and others. But last night I finally spun up Pentaho.
Wow. I was impressed.
I grabbed their Reporting Evaluation tool and had it up and running in no time. I hooked up a MySQL datasource [...]

Posted by Andrew on October 29th, 2008

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Getting SVN keyword expansion happening in Tortoise SVN

Sounds easy enough, and here are the steps:
1. Firstly access the settings file of SVN through the Tortoise context menu (right-click).

2. Enable automatic properties in the miscellany section.

[miscellany]
enable-auto-props = yes

3. Add the file extensions and keywords you want to be activated.

[auto-props]
*.html = svn:keywords=Date Id Rev Author URL
*.js = svn:keywords=Date Id Rev Author URL
*.css = svn:keywords=Date [...]

Posted by Andrew on October 22nd, 2008

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How to generate an SSH key with PuTTY on Windows

Assuming you have already grabbed PuTTY, you can generate a key with PuTTY using the instructions below:

Run puttygen.exe
In the “Parameters” section select your encryption standard, I use SSH2 DSA. Press Generate.
Move your mouse randomly in the small screen in order to generate the key pairs.
Enter a key comment, which will serve to identify the key [...]

Posted by Andrew on October 18th, 2008

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