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Filed under: Life on October 12th, 2008 | No Comments »

Filed under: Life on October 11th, 2008 | No Comments »

If you want to bookmark a  quick mozilla search from your house to another postcode you can use this URI :

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en&sessionID=0&type_destination=locator&name_destination=DESTINATION_POSTCODE&type_origin=locator&name_origin=ORIGIN_POSTCODE&place_origin=London&place_destination=London

just change the DESTINATION and ORIGIN_POSTCODE to %s if you like or make it as static bookmark.

Filed under: Travel on July 29th, 2008 | No Comments »

Went with noah to see that Euro Disney thing and he seems to really enjoyed it. I am not a big fan of Eurodisney personally but the kid was so enjoying it. Last time i was there was like 11 years ago, things got way more expensive now  as well.

[Show as slideshow]

Filed under: Noah on May 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

If you want to use FFAP (find-file-at-point) in ruby-mode you can add this to your .emacs

(defvar ruby-program-name "ruby")
(defun ruby-module-path(module)
    (shell-command-to-string 
     (concat 
      ruby-program-name " -e " 
      "\"ret='()';$LOAD_PATH.each{|p| " 
      "x=p+'/'+ARGV[0].gsub('.rb', '')+'.rb';" 
      "ret=File.expand_path(x)" 
      "if(File.exist?(x))};printf ret\" " 
      module)))
 
(eval-after-load "ffap"
  '(push '(ruby-mode . ruby-module-path) ffap-alist))

When you do ffap (i bind it to C-x f) near a require ‘PP’ for example it will find it in your ruby path.

Filed under: Emacs on May 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

If you use the XMLRPC client in ruby over a self certified SSL you have this warning :

warning: peer certificate won’t be verified in this SSL session

You can get override that warning cleanly (i have seen some people who just comment the message in the standard library) like that :

require 'xmlrpc/client'

require 'net/https'
require 'openssl'
require 'pp'module SELF_SSL
  class Net_HTTP < Net::HTTP
    def initialize(*args)
      super
      @ssl_context = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext.new
      @ssl_context.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
    end
  end

class XMLRPC_Client < XMLRPC::Client
    def initialize(*args)
      super
      @http = SELF_SSL::Net_HTTP.new( @host, @port,
                    @proxy_host,@proxy_port )
      @http.use_ssl = @use_ssl if @use_ssl
      @http.read_timeout = @timeout
      @http.open_timeout = @timeout
    end

end

end

if __FILE__ == $0

f = SELF_SSL::XMLRPC_Client.new2("https://url")
 puts f.call("method", 'arg')
end

Filed under: Programming, Ruby on March 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

While talking with my fellow colleague Darren Birkett about what seems a design limitation
of yum to not be able to force listing the excludes from yum. I had a
shoot to make a yum plugin to force listing the excludes.

Here is how it works :

root@centos5:~> grep exclude /etc/yum.conf
exclude=rpm*
root@centos5:~> yum install rpm-devel
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Loading “changelog” plugin
Loading “chmouel” plugin
Loading “priorities” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do

rpm* is excluded, but if we use the environment variable FORCE_EXCLUDE
it will force it.

 root@centos5:~> FORCE_EXCLUDE=true yum install rpm-devel
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Loading “changelog” plugin
Loading “chmouel” plugin
Loading “priorities” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
–> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
—> Downloading header for rpm-devel to pack into transaction set.
rpm-devel-4.4.2-47.el5.i3 100% |=========================| 17 kB 00:00
—> Package rpm-devel.i386 0:4.4.2-47.el5 set to be updated
–> Running transaction check
[.....]

It will allow you to list the excluded rpm as well :

 root@centos5:~> FORCE_EXCLUDE=true yum list|grep rpm
rpm.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-libs.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-python.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
redhat-rpm-config.noarch 8.0.45-22.el5.centos base
rpm-build.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 base
rpm-devel.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 base
root@centos5:~> yum list|grep rpm
rpm.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-libs.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
rpm-python.i386 4.4.2-47.el5 installed
redhat-rpm-config.noarch 8.0.45-22.el5.centos base

See the README.txt in the rpm file to see how to use/install it.

You can download the rpm here and the src.rpm here

Filed under: Programming, Python, RedHat on March 20th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Finally after three years (almost i arrived on 29 September 2004 here) i am following all my french friends (except Aurelien whos staying here) and i am moving back to France. It is a heartbreak since this is one (if not the one) of the best country i ever lived. I made a lot of good friends in Sydney and for the last 3 month in Melbourne. Well anyway i am sorta looking forward to come back to France to be near my kid and see all my friends there.

And as always on my way back to France i am going to travel a bit in South America until december, i have made a website which show all places i am going to which i would update on the go.

The website is here :

http://whereis.chmouel.com/

It is probably only interesting to my mum but it as well give me some good understanding of all thoses new Ajax technology and others MVC Framework (via Django).

For all my french friends i hope to see you soon in Paris!

Filed under: Programming on September 19th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

To anyone interested my extensive Emacs configuration is available here :

http://code.google.com/p/chmouel/source

And here is the usual screen shot :

Filed under: Emacs on September 7th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

This is fun, theses two CEO of theses big companies are dog fighting each others :

Dave post:

http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html

Johanthan answer:

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/on_patent_trolling

but the real (fake) truth about that post is here :

http://fakeschwartz.blogspot.com/2007/09/bring-it-cowboy.html

I tend to believe more NetAPP in this case, just because i don’t know how many time i have sweared on that bloody ps -aux that does not work on solaris.

Filed under: Misc, Solaris on September 7th, 2007 | No Comments »