Wade Womersley - Leeds based web developer » Software

CouchDB ServerDensity Plugin

Wade — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:39:49 +0000

We needed a CouchDB plugin in the office for some of our servers so I wrote one earlier and added it to the Plugin Store over at ServerDensity.

You can download it at http://plugins.serverdensity.com/couchdb/

ServerDensity HAProxy Plugin

ServerDensity HAProxy Plugin

VPS.net – Send a postcard, win an iPad + $10 off your next bill

Wade — Mon, 10 May 2010 07:01:53 +0000

The VPS provider this site runs on, and that we use rather extensively in the office, is currently running a neat little promotion which is very simple. Send them a postcard and you’ll get $10 off your next bill plus you’ll be entered into a competition to win an iPad! I’d love to win an iPad so I can flog it for a few hundred )

The competition is open to everyone (UK and USA) and there are only a couple of rules:

The postcard must contain a location or landmark
It must be postmarked by 4th June
Your email address (presumably matching your VPS.net email address) must be on it

To enter, send your postcard to:
VPS.NET
164 North Springcreek Parkway
Providence, Utah 84332 USA

Original VPS.net blog post.

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Google Launches new Public DNS – Seems Fast!

Wade — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:25:01 +0000

Google has recently launched their own version of public DNS servers, much like OpenDNS. After trying them out briefly this morning, the response time does seem to be very quick from an actual user point of view (browser seems to start downloading sooner than it used to do.)

For PuTTY Users – PuTTY Connection Manager

Wade — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:13:13 +0000

I was just Googling trying to find out if anyone had wrote an application that wraps PuTTY enabling it to support stored sessions in its taskbar icon right click menu when I came across this extremely useful program instead: PuTTY Connection Manager. It’s a very simple application for Windows that sits over PuTTY but provides 2 extremely useful features.

The first feature is a list of all saved sessions so you can just double click and it opens a new PuTTY session inside the application.

The second feature (and this one is great if you’re like us at work and manage lots of nodes) is a simultaneous command function – run the same command across as many PuTTY sessions as you want at once. Yes, type it in once and watch as it’s done on all the PuTTY sessions you specify – marvellous!

For anyone who uses PuTTY, I highly recommend trying this out.

Using SSL in RestClient

Windows 7 is here, Japan becomes America

Wade — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:11:16 +0000

Today is officially the launch of Windows 7 to the general public, people are no doubt throwing their Windows 7 parties everywhere, it’s a day of rejoicing and celebrations, a day to remember those that came before it and hastily forget them again, etc. etc.

Peerblock (or Peerguardian) – Block Lists

Wade — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:57:09 +0000

It occured to me when I posted about Peerblock that I neglected to post about a very useful site in regards to it’s use; that site is I-BlockList. It’s a really simple site with some of the most popular services IP ranges there so you can be sure you’re blocking (or allowing) specific things through. For example I play games on Steam and there is a Steam list so I can access the services.

PeerBlock 1.0 Released – Now with signed driver

PeerBlock 1.0 Released – Now with signed driver

Windows 7 Allows Changing on Logon UI Background

Wade — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:02:23 +0000

One of those little things that help make Windows 7 one of the most user oriented OS’s to come out of Redmond yet – the logon screen can be changed without any 3rd party software allowing more customisation straight out of the box. It’s small, but it’s nice to know Microsoft added it in.

1. Click Start, type Regedit.exe and press ENTER:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Authentication \ LogonUI \ Background

2. Create a new DWORD value named OEMBackground

3. Double-click OEMBackground and set 1 as its value data.

4. Exit the Registry Editor.

Next step is to place the background wallpaper (JPEG file) in the following folder:

C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds

Note that the info folder doesn’t exist by default. You need to create the info and backgrounds folders manually.

Place the background image file (name it as backgroundDefault.jpg) into the above folder.

For more details, read the full specificaition at the withinwindows blog.

PeerBlock 1.0 Released – Now with signed driver

Wade — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:00:36 +0000

PeerBlock was a “spin off” from PeerGuardian, a program that completely blocks access to certain IP addresses at the network level making it completely impossible to connect to them (or from people on those IP addresses to connect to you.) The reason I love this program so much is it blocks access to known spyware and adware computers making your PC that bit more secure.

PeerBlock 1.0 has just been released, marking the first “stable” version, and one big feature is Windows x64 (Vista and 7) now have a signed driver meaning you no longer have to go into “Ignore Driver Signature” mode at boot-up.

Of course it is also a great piece of software for people who use P2P networks with poor intent as it also can block access to/from known monitoring servers and government addresses.

Download PeerBlock from the official site.

Peerblock (or Peerguardian) – Block Lists

FFXIV – Final Fantasy 14 – TGS Trailer

Wade — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:33:52 +0000

While I never really got into WoW (I have played, I have characters, I rarely touch it) I do love FFXI and have played many many hours on that game – less now, it just feels dated and that can ruin a game for me.

However, FFXIV is coming soon, sometime in 2010, and I can’t wait for it, a new MMORPG based in a Final Fantasy world, I’m a huge fan of the FF series so this is a no brainer for me. Below is the latest trailer for it. You’ll notice (if you haven’t read much about it yet, the characters look oddly similar to FFXI, that is something SquareEnix stated they wanted to do, keep the mithra, galka, hume and tarutaru styles in the new game so “veterans” of FFXI could transition easily and new players would just treat them as they would any new game.)

Copenhagen User Experience

Wade — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:31:59 +0000

I’m torn on this, it has some great ideas (updating interface with dynamic search – real time search Ben?) and it has some big failings (updating interface with resizing objects.)For example, the login screen, rarely seen but those little changes with the moving/scaling image is a great idea; the live search with an updating UI (something as simple as “x items” with each click); and several other things.

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