sudo make me a sandwich

Syncing IMAP servers with imapsync

vic — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:40:36 +0000

We’re moving our company mail from a self-hosted Cyrus-Imapd solution to Google Apps for domains. As such, I had to migrate everyone’s email. This sucked majorly. My first solution to the problem was logging into both accounts (the current IMAP server as well as Gmail) and drag and drop folders. Yeaaaaah, no. I really didn’t care [...]

Making your own iPhone ringtones in under 10 steps

vic — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:59:24 +0000

When geeks get bored

vic — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:52:05 +0000

Automating document conversion in Linux using JODConverter/OOo

vic — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:12:02 +0000

High-Availability with Fedora, DRBD, Heartbeat and Mon [and Xen]

vic — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:37:17 +0000

Ordering individual results in a UNION statement, or “Oh UNION/ORDER BY, how do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.”

vic — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:02:29 +0000

Postfix + MySQL + PCRE + Berkeley DB + Cyrus SASL + STARTTLS

vic — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:33:12 +0000

Time is but an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

vic — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:47:46 +0000

CONCAT() and NULL fields in SQL

vic — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:33:33 +0000

Here's something I'd just always taken for granted, that I could just CONCAT() a whole bunch of fields and SQL would just bow to my demands and give me whatever I wanted. Say something like:

CONCAT(
     t.billing_address1, '\n', 
     t.billing_address2, '\n', 
     t.city, ', ', t.state, ', ', t.zip, '\n', 
     t.country
) AS address

and it would just work (where t, of course, is an alias for my table).

Roast Chicken

vic — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:02:36 +0000

Like they say, cooking is an art and baking is a science. As such, I try to refrain from baking. If something goes wrong with my cooking, I can still salvage it and call it modern art, but I've never had any such luck with baking-gone-wrong. But try as you might, it's hard to resist the allure of $1.49/lb for a whole chicken at Whole Foods (hah). So I procured a 4 lb chicken (asked the butcher to keep the giblets, liver and all that other grossness) and brought the sucker home.