Computers Experimental Converting a list of GPS locations (lat, long) to Australian state names October 24, 2021 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Recently, I had the fun experience of converting a CSV file that contained the names of a bunch of cities inside Australia. The CSV file contained four columns: City name Latitude (in DMS) Longitude (in DMS) There were more than 5,000 rows in the CSV file. I wanted to pull a list of all the […] Read more » csv Locations rlang
Experimental RedHat Installing all* the fonts on Red Hat EL6 February 17, 2014 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I am currently working on a project that takes screenshots of websites, and needed a quick way to get the most common fonts installed on the screenshot server. This worked wonders (although, it still needs a bit of tuning, I will work on that later. yum install google-\*-fonts wine-fonts dejavu-\*-fonts Read more »
Experimental Holidays New Installer Skeleton September 15, 2011 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Ever written a web application, wondering what will happen months down the track when a client (or even *gasp* you) need to install your web application? I am working on a new installer skeleton (if you will) which will allow you to very simply create a fully functional installer for your slightly complicated web applications. […] Read more »
Experimental CrazyCode and up all night January 19, 2010 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment Do the words “Crazy Code and up all night” describe you? Prefer the night more then you do the sunlight? The site CrazyCode is for you! This blog is all about any subject technical. I am trying to find a few contributing editors to also help along with writting articles for the site, so if […] Read more » experimental
Experimental Linux Cluster 101: Building your first dumb cluster November 12, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment I would like to introduce you tonight to a x-part series (I don’t know how many parts there are at the moment, we will see as time progresses) entitled “How to build a www cluster in x days“. In this series, we will be looking at a wide variety of different techniques that can be […] Read more » build cluster diy hosting web www
Experimental Linux Getting Synergy working propperly on Windows XP / Ubuntu June 11, 2009 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment At Digital Pacific, where I work, I do all my work on three computers. It’s a nice life looking at three monitors all the time, however, it is not the coolest thing in the world when you have three keyboards in front of you. When I moved here, I already knew about Synergy, it’s great […] Read more » hints Linux Synergy Windows
Experimental My Xen experience August 8, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | Leave a Comment No! When I Xen, I am not talking about a relationship to foreign material. Well, that is – not exactly. Xen is an open source hypervisor. Think: VMware, but much, much cooler. I was talking to Tim Post, about a project that I was completing for ShareSource2. Basically, the conversation came to the point where […] Read more » Debian Linux OpenVZ Ubuntu xen
Experimental Ruby on Rails July 27, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 3 Comments on Ruby on Rails A good friend of mine, Jordan Bracco recently forced me to rediscover Ruby on Rails. He told me that the new version, 1.9 is “5000x faster”, so I thought, well, why not! The last version of Ruby I tried was either version 1.7 or 1.8, and it was not really something that I would say […] Read more » experiments PHP ruby
Experimental MyBanco Anouncing MyBanco! July 26, 2008 by Tim Groeneveld | 1 Comment on Anouncing MyBanco! Ever wanted to run your own bank? Well, my new [experimental] web application allows you to do exactly that. While some may say that I just have way too much time on my hands, others might just say that I should get top marks for my IPT [Information Processing Technology] assignment. We had to build […] Read more » experiments MyBanco MyInfo new PHP