Atlassian Crowd - Zendesk integration
In my quest to free my colleagues from unnecessary passwords, I created a simple web application for integrating Zendesk to Atlassian Crowd....
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Convert SPSS .SAV file to CSV (for Excel)
SPSS alternative, GNU PSPP includes a very easy-to-use tool that can convert the SPSS SAV file to CSV. This can be further read into Excel. Just open the CSV file in Excel. If Excel does not automatically split data, choose the first column, go to t...
D-Link routers and ZoneEdit dynamic dns
Some D-Link models support updating selected dynamic DNS services. The support is, however, limited, and it seems that, for example, you can't configure it to push updates to ZoneEdit....
Disable Tomcat thread pool
I recently ran into issues with a third party application that had certain issues with threadlocals. Namely certain parts of the application were using threadlocal to store information, but did not clean up the stored information. This information t...
Enhanced JIRA widget for Zendesk
Zendesk provides a very nice JIRA integration widget that allows creating JIRA cases directly from Zendesk and keeps them in sync....
Filezilla GnuTLS error -15: An unexpected TLS packet was received and VsFTP
Too-long-don't-want-to-read--give-me-commands-to-paste-to-my-terminal:...
Git on Windows & Github, authentication suddenly stopped working
I'm using Github 2FA and git on Windows with the Windows Credentials store credential helper. This can be configured with:...
Hotkeys for moving windows around screens
I'm using multiple monitors and sometimes it would be useful to have hotkeys that would position the active window to certain place on certain screen. I took a quick look at ready made software but those did not seem to solve my specific problem....
Install latest MongoDB in Ubuntu
The MongoDB version available from the default Ubuntu/Debian repositories can be fairly old. Luckily it is easy to get a newer version directly from 10gen repository...
IntellijJ IDEA: Maven home directory is invalid
When creating a new project based on Maven archetype, IntelliJ IDEA wants to know certain Maven-related directories. It took a few minutes to figure out what IDEA actually wants here, and answering incorrectly gives the not very informative "Maven h...
Logging to Loggly from JBoss 5.1.0
[Loggly](http://loggly.com/) is a fairly new cloud-based log management service. You can think about it as a lightweight and hosted version of Splunk. I find it pretty interesting, especially because it provides a pay-as-you-go licensing model which...
MongoDB as service on Windows
Quick install script for installing MongoDB as a service on Windows. Further instructions are available in official MongoDB [docs](http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Windows+Service)....
NullPointerException while creating new Portlet project in Liferay IDE
Creating a new portlet project in Liferay IDE may result in a NullPointerException and complaints about no IModelProvider being found for Dynamic Web Module 3.0. An example of the stack trace is below (you can see this in your $WORKSPACE/.metadata/....
QC35, Windows, Bluetooth audio
I started investigating pairing problems with my Bose QC35 headphone/headset and Windows. At first, I was wondering why I actually see two separate QC35 devices with different icons in the pairing list. Soon I figured out the other one was "headphon...
Refresh DHCP IP address in Ubuntu
bash Release existing sudo dhclient -r Get new sudo dhclient Restart networking sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop sudo /etc/init.d/networking start ...
Replacing multiple occurences of character in bash
I wanted to replace multiple occurrences of underscore with single in one bash shell script. With regular expressions this is pretty simple, but by default they are not available directly in bash (using awk, sed and other tools would have obviously ...
The user specified as a definer does not exist when using LOCK TABLES
Encountered annoying MySQL problem when trying to dump database from a backup server....
Ubuntu quick firewall configuration
Quick instructions for enabling firewall on Ubuntu using Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw). The resulting rules are quite obvious. Incoming traffic is denied, except for ssh, http and https (these refer to /etc/services) and outgoing is allowed....
Using Dropbox to sync Sublime Text settings across Windows computers
Sublime Text stores settings and packages in %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2 folder by default. Quick search did not reveal any way of forcing it to use some other location. In order to sync the settings by using Dropbox, the files should obviously reside ...
Visio 2013 and 2016 disable rerouting
Drop something to the drawing surface, all other shapes freak out, running away from your new shape which you just wanted to throw in the background. Sounds familiar?...
Windows 8 hotkeys
Few Windows 8 hotkeys I have found useful:...
Work 2.0
Think about how the cloud changed the way startups were run when we went from 20th century Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. During the dot-com boom it was all about money and big hardware. Success started with $1M set of Sun hardware. Then came the cloud and cha...