Using SSH for deployment in Codeship Pro

Using SSH is a simple way to run commands on a remote server. For example, to update a…

Jul 18, 2016

Creating documents from a template using LibreOffice’s ‘mail merge’ feature

I recently had a situation where I wanted to quickly export data from a database source to PDFs. I wanted to create a document for each volunteer where they could check their information and other…

Thomas Toye

Jan 4, 2016

How I manage my music on Linux

I wanted to take the time to talk about how I manage my music on Linux. I use the following tools:

morituri, to rip CDs,
beets, to manage my music library,
mopidy, as a music server,

Thomas Toye

May 7, 2015

Python LDAP authentication with Microsoft Active Directory

For a school project, we have to implement LDAP authentication in edX. edX is build on Django and Python, so I decided to explore how to implement LDAP with Python.

My fresh server setup steps

These are the steps I take after I image a new server. These are mainly personal notes, but I imagine someone else might be interested in my process.

Thomas Toye

May 7, 2015

Using MacWire DI in an existing Play! Framework 2.3 application

I wanted to convert a project of mine to use dependency injection in Play, and I settled on MacWire. I will confess that I don’t have a lot of experience with DI, and that it wasn’t easy to wrap my head around at first.

Thomas Toye

May 7, 2015

Dutch spell checking for IntelliJ IDEA

I got really annoyed by the spell checking feature of IntelliJ IDEA, since I’m a native Dutch speaker and I have a few projects where the main language is Dutch. I originally planned to just disable it after I noticed there was no Dutch dictionary available, but…

Thomas Toye

Mar 26, 2015

Continuous deployment for Play! Framework 2

In a previous blog post, I discussed setting up Jenkins for continuous integration with Play. But today will go one step further: we will contiously deploy our application.

A high-level overview

Thomas Toye

Mar 16, 2015

Continuous integration for Play! Framework 2 with Digital Ocean

GitHub offers a student pack to those who are still studying. Among the long list is $100 in credit for Digital Ocean. I took the opportunity to try out continuous integration with Play! 2 and Jenkins.