Integrating Nagios with Test Driven Development
A while back I realized something important: Monitoring tools are to the sysadmin what testing tools are to the developer. Recently I realized that there need to be more ways to bring both toolsets together. Here’s one, tying the Nagios…
New WordPress Plugin to configure user timeouts
I published my second plugin for WordPress today. It lets you configure how long user sessions and the “remember me” cookie last. By default they’re only 2 days and 2 weeks, respectively. Twofold impetus: a problem with the internal P2…
WordPress plugin to make code samples prettier
I’ve always had a weakness for “preferences”. I spent hours going through all the available preference panes on the first Mac I had access to (an SE II I think, ca. 1989), tweaking this and that to get it to…
The intranets! Let them in! Let them play!
I just released bhLDAPAuthPlugin to the world with permission from my employer. I’ve been using symfony (“PHP on Rails”) for about a year at work for a few intranet projects, and over and over I have needed to use our…
Synchronizing Hiveminder with Outlook
Whee. I finally did it, though it’s been on my list for a couple years. I wanted to use the sweet todo-ticketing goodness of Hiveminder.com, but my mesozoic Palm T|X handheld was holding me back, and I’ve got several reasons…
