Author Archives: Daz

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Installing RMagick on Snow Leopard / Leopard

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Daz

UPDATE: After using this for a little, i’ve discovered that there’s a small problem with the install script, it does not include the ghostscript fonts (for use with ImageMagick) properly. I’ve forked the repository and applied a fix (http://github.com/dazoakley/ImageMagick-sl) - … Continue reading →

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Installing the Ruby Bindings for Oracle on Mac OS X

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Daz

This quick crib sheet is for the guys at work (and anyone else who might need help on this one)… First install the oracle instant client somewhere - I normally install it to /usr/local/oracle/instantclient_10_2. Then… cd /usr/local/oracle/instantclient_10_2 ln -s libclntsh.dylib.10.1 … Continue reading →

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Removing ._ Files From Mounted Drives

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Daz

Here’s a quick snippet of goodness to remove those annoying ‘._’ files that Macs generate on mounted drives… cd [wherever you want to clean] find . -name "._*" -exec rm ‘{}’ \; -print

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Creating Users on a Linux System

Posted on January 9, 2010 by Daz

It’s been a while since I’ve had to do any basic sysadmin stuff on a Linux box… seeing as I had to google the answers to this I thought I’d better write them down! useradd syntax useradd [options] {username} Useful … Continue reading →

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Git and Github

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Daz

Here’s the slides of another presentation I gave at work just before the Christmas break - this time on some of the development tools and resources that i’m using in my work: git and github. The general gist is a … Continue reading →

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Homebrew: The First Batch

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Daz

I’ve always fancied trying my hand at a bit of home brewing but never actually found the guts to get myself a kit. Well, this time I finally went through with it and I’m now the proud owner of a … Continue reading →

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Links for 2009-09-22

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Daz

Real-World Scala: Introduction (tags: scala programming tutorial reference) Programming Scala (tags: scala books oreilly ebook reference)

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IWPLS 2009: The Sanger Mouse Resources Portal - a Testbed for Collaborative Data Integration

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Daz

Last week I enjoyed some time up in Edinburgh for the International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences (IWPLS ‘09), hosted at the e-Science Institute. It was a good workshop - there were good presentations, lively debates, and good social … Continue reading →

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This Week on Twitter (2009-09-20)

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Daz

Whisky tasting, followed by dinner, followed by pub = good eve http://twitpic.com/hrl74 # Lovely sunny day in Edinburgh http://twitpic.com/hssx0 # Trying to decide what to do for the afternoon. Think it might be shopping in MK… #

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This Week on Twitter (2009-09-13)

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Daz

Just arrived in Edinburgh ready for #IWPLS tomorrow. Time to check out some sights, then prepare the presentation… #

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