The awesome uftpd, now w/ TFTP support! :)

September 2, 2014 - 1 min read

Today sees the release of v1.3 of the awesome little uftpd. The main news is the new TFTP support! Just like before you don’t need any configuration file, just build and install – or build a .deb file and install. This release completes the main purpose of uftpd for me, I can now use it as my daily driver and fully replace vsftpd and tftpd-hpa, which to me are the next best.

HowTo Rebase without an origin

August 27, 2014 - 1 min read

OK, so you’ve just been handed the task to integrate a big piece of corporate software and it’s nowhere near as done and ready as project management thinks. Of course you’ve already started chugging away at it, fixing bugs, refactoring code and wrapping it in neat containers to keep the changeset against the base SW small – you already know you’ll get another drop of the same stinking pieace of code in another six months, so you keep the changes small and track them in GIT with neatly formatted commit messages.

HowTo Rebase without an origin

August 27, 2014 - 1 min read

OK, so you’ve just been handed the task to integrate a big piece of corporate software and it’s nowhere near as done and ready as project management thinks. Of course you’ve already started chugging away at it, fixing bugs, refactoring code and wrapping it in neat containers to keep the changeset against the base SW small – you already know you’ll get another drop of the same stinking pieace of code in another six months, so you keep the changes small and track them in GIT with neatly formatted commit messages.

On the demise of free(code) ...

June 29, 2014 - 3 mins read

I feel I have to write something about the demise of free(code). Others have written about it too, and its been covered on lwn.net as well.

It’s actually a rather depressing development. They claim it’s due to the low traffic and decline in updates, but it’s evident that’s not the whole truth. The owners recommend their other site, SourceForge, but anyone having been in the loop for the last decade or two knows that SourceForge has been in a slow decline for a long time, more so than free(code) in my opinion. Also, SourceForge only lists its own projects, and only the most active or “top” projects.

I never used free(code) to find the “top” projects or the most active ones. That’s completely useless to me. I went there to dig for small unknown projects, small gems that are usually unlisted on GitHub or SourceForge. I went there to publicize my own small creations, learn about other similar projects and get a quick feedback on recent changes of new releases to projects I was interested in.

New releases of uftpd and inadyn ...

May 20, 2014 - 1 min read

The last couple of weeks have both seen the birth of the fabulous uftpd and a reignited inadyn project! Yesterday v1.2 of uftpd was released and today Inadyn saw the first working HTTPS support being released as v1.99.8! This is likely the last release of Inadyn before the big 2.0, which will introduce the new .conf file format based on libConfuse. A .conf file feasibility study was presented earlier …

New release of the DDNS client Inadyn

May 14, 2014 - 2 mins read

Looking for a Dynamic DNS, DDNS, client? Well you’re in luck, the FLOSS market space is flooded with dedicated clients and various wget scripts. So why bother with an old C implementation? Well, this is admittedly one of the old timers in the game and is likely packaged for your GNU/Linux distribution of choice already. It’s tried and tested with many DDNS service providers and even comes bundled in a few embedded router distributions as well.

Why write your own FTP server?

May 4, 2014 - 4 mins read

So, I finally got fed up with all other FTP servers and wrote my own. Why would someone in their right mind do something like this 2014?

As a developer the answer to most such questions is usually; to scratch an itch. For a very long time I’ve looked for a really simple FTP server that just works, out of the box!

Release of Finit v1.9

April 21, 2014 - 1 min read

Just made it! Here’s the result of #Easterhack14 – Finit v1.9 :-) Nothing fancy this time, just collecting some bug fixes, playing with cppcheck a bit and adding support for including .conf files. Quite useful if you want to partition your configuration, or if you share major pieces of configuration between different platforms. Enjoy!

Finally — Google Movies & Music in Sweden

March 18, 2014 - 1 min read

So, we finally got Google Music & Movies services in Sweden! The prices seem a bit on the steep side, apart from maybe the Music service, which is slightly cheaper than Spotify. Will try it out for a month or so to see which one I like better. For some reason I chose Gravity as my first rental, at 39 Skr. I’ve heard so many bad reviews of it but for better or worse it’ll now be my introduction to Google Movies :-)

Weekend Hack: JSON vs CONF

February 23, 2014 - 1 min read

It was time. I had been putting it off for far too long – learning about JSON and deciding on a new .conf file format for Inadyn. So this weekend I sat myself down to read up on JSON and the multitude of parser libraries for both JSON and traditional .conf file parsers. I was looking for a human readable file format that a user could easily and reliably edit by themselves without it being too error prone or sensitive to mistyping.