Hey guys, just a quick tip on something I used recently – how to dump data to CSV from postgres. So, if you want to dump something on the server itself, you can run the following commands: Copy (Select * From foo) To ‘/tmp/test.csv’ With CSV DELIMITER ‘,’; Which will dump out the data into …
Hey guys, so yea its been a little bit of a while – at least since August when I posted part one of getting started with Gulp. Yes, there is a part 2, however I have been really busy with work and just not having the incentive to do more on it in my spare …
Hey guys, welcome to the first in (hopefully) a series of useful tutorials, for various things that I end up using or learning for either my day job or for fun. In this one we will be going over Gulp, how to get started with it, and some of the basic functionality, with us eventually …
It’s that time of year! Me and Mark have head off to Brussels for FOSDEM, a large developer conference held at the university. We left at around 7 from Lancaster, drove to the airport and jumped on our plane. So after an uneventful but comfortable flight (the plane was almost half empty!) We arrived, managed …
So, the other day (well, yesterday infact!) I was talking to one of my friends who was explaining how they use a SAD(Seasonal Affective Disorder) light to help them wake up in the morning. As mornings are something which I have a large difficulty in dealing with, I thought ‘I wonder if this will help…’. …
So regularly, I find myself needing another install disk for a particular Linux distribution – be this for a desktop, a server, or a Raspberry Pi. Which means that I have, at any one time, atleast 2 downloads for various Linux distros on any one particular machine I use… although it is rarely the one …
Note: This no longer applies since moving to WordPress. Here for posterity Well, it may have been a few days (ok, weeks…) since my last update, however I have been fairly busy with work, and also with the variet of other things I do which arent updating my blog. Ok so thats really no excuse, …
So this is less about me playing with init itself, but playing with multiple different distros which have different init systems. But why, you may ask? Well if you know me, you probably have also heard about the current systemd debacle, which is currently tearing a lot of communities apart – some want to use …
I’m Back! And wow I have managed to fail massively at this blogging routine. However, I’m back in the driving seat, as it were, and have developed a few new features – namely my new Projects pages!. This is hopefully going to evolve a bit more over the coming weeks, and I will be eventually …
Well that was close! I almost managed to fail one of my new year promises within the first week! Phew! Thankfully I have managed to sit down (just now) and start working on a blog post. What, did you think I’d had a beer? Speaking of beer, it has been a week! In that time …