Author Archives: DocDock

creation of a more responsible padlock

Posted on October 16, 2017 by DocDock

I have been cleaning up my flat in preparation for the move when I ran across a few small TSA locks.  Sure I have used them when traveling to and from the United States but it certainly seemed to be … Continue reading →

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Maven the alternative build tool

Posted on October 10, 2017 by DocDock

Why maven Maven is a tool for building software. Doesn’t there already exist a number of tools for doing this exact task?  Two different tools that do this are the classic make utility or the much newer Apache Ant. The make utility … Continue reading →

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installing maven on linux

Posted on October 3, 2017 by DocDock

Maven offers quite a bit as a enterprise build tool.  It can help ensure that standards are followed and offers support for automated testing.  This tool is actually really simple to install.  It is just a matter of unpacking it … Continue reading →

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command line fun – finding mistakes

Posted on September 29, 2017 by DocDock

I knew that I had mistyped but it was too late.  I tried to exit out of vi in a hurry and accidentally exited but saved the file under a new name.  This wouldn’t have been so bad if the … Continue reading →

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Got a new tablet for the price of fastfood meal …

Posted on September 20, 2017 by DocDock

… well, that is a bit of an exaggeration.  I owned a Samsung Galaxy S tablet which no longer worked.  It had the darndest symptoms. doesn’t charge past 77 % takes a day to get to 77% spontaneously restarts shortly … Continue reading →

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command line fun – temporary data

Posted on September 11, 2017 by DocDock

Most of the scripts that I need to write don’t actually need to manipulate a lot of data.  It is usually enough to pipe that data through a command or two and use the result.  When this isn’t acceptable then … Continue reading →

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virtualbox disk too small ?

Posted on September 5, 2017 by DocDock

The first few times I used VirtualBox it wasn’t clear why you would ever want to create a virtual disk that is dynamic.  I could only envision having three machines each with a disk that wasn’t fully expanded only to … Continue reading →

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Virtual hardware -better than the real thing

Posted on September 1, 2017 by DocDock

One of the really neat things about the here and now is all those spare CPU cycles that are available.  With enough CPU power it is possible to create special effects such as adding dinosaurs to movies, bringing historical figures … Continue reading →

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airplane data security

Posted on August 21, 2017 by DocDock

When I think about airlines I think about a lot of things but I don’t think of high tech. That isn’t very realistic as jet engines are pretty high tech devices and the ability to book reservations over the internet is … Continue reading →

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Reuse a Pi – Proxy server

Posted on August 17, 2017 by DocDock

The Raspberry Pi was (and still is) an incredible computer. It was the size of a small deck of cards, ran Linux, could manipulate other devices via the GPIO pins, cost only 35 dollars and is just as capable as … Continue reading →

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