What do I want from my personal NAS
- July, 22 2013
- triplem
In this post I would like to gather some personal requirements for a NAS System I am going to build. Right now, I am in the process of ripping all my CDs (around 950 unique releases – More than half of it is already finished). The target is to store all these releases on a personal NAS with the ability to stream those to my stereo. For this I have already selected minimserver as the UPNP-Server....
Software Development in the 21st century
- May, 12 2013
- triplem
In earlier days sourceforge was THE development plattform for open source project. This has changed nowadays. SF.net has now been overcome by github and additional services. SF.net was still adding services like e.g. git repositories (http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Git) and additional apps like Trac and stuff. Sourceforge is furthermore converting the whole infrastructure to the...
nodejs and ports
- April, 20 2013
- triplem
During my development with nodejs I stumbled over a very annoying problem. The server started, but I was not able to connect to it on the specified port. Furthermore, after a restart of the server, it reported an "EADDRINUSE Address already in use" failure. On further investigations, it looked like that for each time the server started with a port it created a new directory in the application root...
Open Source Projects and their Teams
- April, 12 2013
- triplem
In any Open Source Project you will find the same players like in most (say all) teams. I have just participated in a Leadership Training and got introduced to the roles in teams. At the same time I started to program in an open source team to implement a small application. Since this is not my first involvement in an open source team, I thought, it would be quite interesting to map the "offici...
nodejs version 0.8.x instead of 0.10 on ArchLinux
- March, 18 2013
- triplem
Right now, I am developing a node application. Since we are using 0.8 and on ArchLinux 0.10 is installed if figured to install nave and n. This is all working fine, as long as I am not using a binary npm package, like node-expat. To install this, I needed to remove the node_modules folder after the change of the node version, and furthermore I needed to define the python-version. The install of pa...
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