FYI

  • Monitoring celery – your distributed task queue

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    bastb

    Hey. I recently noticed I needed some kind of celery monitoring. Here’s a summary of what I learned while searching for a solution TL;DR: Sign up at healthchecks.io, add checks and integrations then add a single celery task that runs every minute. Configure the Period and have it drop an email or a Slack…

  • First steps on building PDF files from a django app

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    bastb

    I’ve been building a web application that operates on information extracted from a storage-engine used by GnuCash. GnuCash 2.6 comes with python-bindings, allowing a developer to rapidly build applications working on data maintained by the application

  • Broadsoft XSI event consumer on .NET

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    bastb

    I’ve been developing a Windows application that consumes Broadsoft XSI events. Broadsoft has a “comprehensive range of VoIP Applications in a Single Platform” and XSI is a way to consume data produced by their platform, allowing integration of a modern switchboard service with other types of applications.

  • Scripted changing of XML files made easy

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    bastb

    Changing the content of a configuration file on an Unix system, like Linux, can be easy. That task quickly becomes a whole different ballgame when you’re dealing with XML files, because this format imposes a couple of restrictions on the XML element values, for instance. You’ll probably be able to get the job done…

  • Data structure of the XING User Profile resource

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    bastb

    XING aims to be a platform for business professionals, offering a platform through which supply meets demand. They seem to be quite good at it. Take a moment to review the services they’re offering and judge for yourself. I think of them mainly as an European competitor to LinkedIn® and they have an API…

  • Automagically minimize javascript in Eclipse on Windows

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    bastb

    The WordPress tool I’m developing uses jQuery scripting. I’ve seen people including a minimized version of the scripting and I think that’s a good approach. I’m using Eclipse on Windows on my development system and it happened more than once that I forgot to include the minimized version of the scripting. I found a…

  • Using the wp settings API with a non-admin user

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    bastb

    WordPress comes with the settings API, an API that simplifies development of configuration pages. It’s a complete API, with regard to function and security. This post will take a look at security, more specific, at access control.

  • Personalize your LinkedIn Public Profile url

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    bastb

    I’ve been seeing a lot of LinkedIn the last few weeks. The reason for that will be in a post in the near future. If you have a LinkedIn profile, you’ve probably noticed the “Public Profile” url on it. This url links directly to your profile. Every profile has one and the default link…