I started working on setting up OpenHab as a home automation hub using an old laptop and a Z-Stick. My main requirement is to be able to hook up my thermostat, as everything Z-Wave looks pretty straightforward. My thermostat is Read More
Tunneling Slack traffic through ssh tunnels
After using Slack for about a week or so, I was suddenly greeted by a corporate IT policy that blocked the domain… Bored of not having it I found a way this morning to selectively send my slack.com traffic through an Read More
Check/Read Messages Exchange/Office365 Inbox with Powershell
We have a process by which notifications of new users in another system, that need to get created in ours are sent via Email to a standalone inbox. The new user emails have to be read and entered into the Read More
Parsing Querystring Values in Fiddler Custom Rules
I’ve been hot-rodding Fiddler for some time now to make my life a lot easier when debugging my site tagging and analytics tracking requests. You can customize just about anything within the sessions window from the color, background, custom Read More
Connect Pentaho/Mondrian Schema Workbench to Amazon Redshift
The more you play with big data technologies, the more you end up circling back to the basic question “How does my end user get access/value?”. Currently we’re using Amazon Redshift as a down and dirty query window on top Read More
Setup Mondrian on Mac OSX
The Mondrian documentation is terrible, and Java isn’t something you get to easily “dabble” in. My goal was to setup Mondrian on my Mac OSX machine, starting with Mondrian 3.5. While trying to set up the initial FoodMart sample dataset Read More
Mysql function to get querystring parameter of url
Not suprisingly, most google results only returned things for doing this within some kind of PHP application. Probably because nobody belives in MySQL as a data warehouse, or a place to parse strings… In the do with what you have Read More
Amazon Associates Widget WordPress Plugin
I’m a die-hard Amazon fanatic, and finally looked into Amazon Associates. As you probably didn’t notice, since you’re a new visitor – I’ve added some links in posts, as well as a nifty widget in my sidebar. I was surprised to only Read More
Start synergy script Mac OSX Client to Windows Host
I’ve long been a synergy fan, and found that especially at work that multiple monitors work best when spread across extra computers. It’s like physical distributed computing. Now, part of learning how to work on a MacBook is being lazy and Read More
Capture form submission buried in ajax/javascript and no easy event handler
When trying to capture a successful form submission or user action, sometimes they are buried deep within Javascript libraries, or on page widgets, with no good way to reliably tie into their events. These are cases where the typical onclick Read More