Nathan Parry

Mini project

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:24:00 -0400

Supporting multiple ‘games’ in the Hudson CI-Game plugin - http://github.com/nparry/hudson-ci-game

Hacking on Hudson is pretty fun - digging through the code you come across a lot of neat ideas from some obviously smart people.

Photo

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:40:00 -0400

QSB Delicious plugin updated for Cobalt

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:25:07 -0400

The latest QSB update necessitated some changes to the Delicious plugin - the plugin info page has the details.

wow

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:35:10 -0400

wow

A bit more Scala hacking...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:13:54 -0500

… and we have a rudimentary JSON schema validator that dovetails nicely with the Orderly parser - usable from Java or Scala.

Weekend project - learn some Scala

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:28:00 -0500

Weekend project - learn some Scala:

An implementation of Orderly JSON in Scala for use on the JVM.

Keychain access for QSB

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:39:00 -0500

I recently heard that some folks get annoying password prompts every x minutes when using my QSB Delicious plugin. They look like…

In fact, there are at least two separate issues filed for QSB about this. This is due to the access settings for the Mac OS X Keychain. In short, some people have settings that say “Once an application is granted access it should always get access” while others say “Force an application to re-authorize after X minutes of idle time”.

There are a couple of ways to solve this:

Set the default keychain to never lock. This way you should only see the above prompt at most once.
If you want your default keychain to lock after X minutes, you can set up a separate keychain just for the QSB password. This second keychain can have less security and use the never-lock setup. The keychain item you need to move to the new keychain will be called com.google.qsb.delicious.account..

To change the settings for a keychain:

Start the Keychain Access application.
Locate the keychain you want to change (the default keychain is usually called ‘login’) - all of the keychains are listed in the upper-left of the application.
Right click on the keychain and select “Change settings for Keychain”.
You should get a dialog as shown below - you can uncheck the various “Lock when/after” settings based on what you want.

The same process applies if you set up different keychains for different passwords.

I appreciate that someone took the time to email me about this, I wasn’t aware of it until they did so. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to drop me a line.

Wow

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:23:54 -0400

Wow

Delicious plugin for QSB info page

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:27:28 -0400

Delicious plugin for QSB info page:

It looks like more folks are looking for Delicious support in QSB - I put together a page with info on my plugin. This will provide a permanent URL where people can always find the latest version of the plugin.

At over 100 million views I’m a bit late to the party on...

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:21:46 -0400

At over 100 million views I’m a bit late to the party on this. Still worth watching :-D

QSB plugins updated for Maganese

Fri, 29 May 2009 18:54:00 -0400

Update: These plugins have been updated for QSB Cobalt.

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Updated QSB means updated plugins.

Hopefully QSB will settle down a bit and I won’t need to keep tweaking these for every release!

HowTo: Update to rails 2.3 on my OS X 10.5 Macbook

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:11:33 -0400

HowTo: Update to rails 2.3 on my OS X 10.5 Macbook

...told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph.

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:53:12 -0400

...told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph.

Twitter! Ruby! Scala!

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:10:28 -0400

Twitter! Ruby! Scala!:

Interesting interview with buzzwords to make everyone happy.

BirthdaySync

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:58:43 -0400

Forgot to mention - I finally got my Contacts’ birthdays -> Google Calendar sync app into a functional state. It is pretty bare bones but it gets the job done.

QSB plugins updated for Vanadium

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:39:00 -0400

Update: These plugins have been updated for QSB Manganese.

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QSB Vanadium was released a few days back. I’ve updated my plugins to work with the changes in this version.

The install is the usual - download, unzip, move to ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Quick Search Box/PlugIns

I dropped my ‘Move to Trash’ plugin since it looks like that is now built-in to QSB.

For the ‘it-works-on-my-machine’ disclaimer, I’m using QSB version 2.0.0 (2.0.0.1053) according to the “About Google Quick Search Box” info.

HowTo: Switch the remote repo for a git submodule

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:56:37 -0400

For my QSB plugins I was using a git submodule pointing to a repository managed by someone else - I needed some updates to that module, so I forked it and made them myself. Thus, I needed my QSB plugin project to point to my new repo for the submodule. I did it this way:

Edit .gitmodules to change the URL for the submodule to my repository
git submodule sync
cd path/to/submodule
git remote update
git merge origin/master
Add .gitmodules and path/to/submodule with ‘git add’, then commit

I used this page about submodules to figure some of this out.

Has no one else done this already?

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:26:06 -0500

Imagine that you have an address book, full of people. People have birthdays - birthdays are one of the many things you forget. Imagine further that you use an online calendar. Wouldn’t it be nice if those birthdays automatically showed up on your calendar? Yet I can’t seem to find a free app to push birthdays from my Address Book to Google calendar.

In disbelief I’ve started to write my own, but someone else must have already done this, or I’m missing some obvious built-in way to do it. Anyone?

I don’t talk about pets on my blog. I post links to other...

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:11:56 -0500

I don’t talk about pets on my blog. I post links to other people’s pets.

Updated ROT-13 QSB plugin

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:26:00 -0500

Update: This version of the plugin has been superseded by version 0.3

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I noticed my first try at a ROT-13 plugin for QSB did not nicely display big chunks of text - I’ve updated it to use a smaller font size. Pre-built version is here.