Amasan – Common sense 2.0

Commentary on Digital Media and Usability

Entries from October 2008

Letter to Ministry of Sound

October 28th, 2008 ·

Dear sir/madam,
I am writing you to complain about the new ministry of sound website and the lack of data protection with regards to your users.
Earlier today I received an email notification about the new MoS website. The email also notified me that a new password was issued to use on the website. These are two [...]

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Fixing Trac after upgrading VisualSVN

October 22nd, 2008 ·

If you upgraded VisualSVN Server like I have today to 1.61 and have Trac installed as per VisualSvn+Trac then you’ll notice Trac stopped working.
To fix this, follow this part of the instructions:
Add following line at the top of file C:\Program Files\VisualSVN Server\httpd-wrapper.bat:

set PYTHONHOME=%~dp0\Trac\python

Update: Later updates to VisualSvn Server break Trac.

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My thoughts exactly

October 15th, 2008 ·

Eurogamer writes:
The community has also pointed out that SecuROM does nothing to stop piracy, as Spore was cracked before public release. Instead, they argue, the real target is the pre-owned, trade-in market.

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TracFogbugzPlugin 0.9u-py2.5 Patch for Trac 0.11

October 15th, 2008 ·

If you use both VisualSvn + Trac (or another flavour of Subversion and Trac), and tried to integrate them with Fogbugz , you will have tried the TracFogbugzPlugin.
Trying to get this to work isn’t straightforward as it’s not compatible with Trac 0.11. You will come across the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\trac\web\api.py”, line [...]

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Passing and receiving multiple values to VbScript functions

October 9th, 2008 ·

Maintaining code can be a real pain in backside. Especially when you’re using shared code, almost always at a later date you will want to make the code more versatile to accommodate a scenario you hadn’t thought of before.
I’ve had experience this in an ASP / VbScript environment, and therefore I’m going to use the [...]

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