Tag Archives: Linux

Asserting log traces in functional or unittests Python

Sometimes you need to assert log traces while writing tests, mostly functional tests (end to end) after you have setup several components by means of mocks. When executing nosetests it sets up automatically the logging and uses any handler you … Continue reading

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Log4Tailer 2.4, monitoring logs like never before

Log4tailer the opensource log monitor application I’m working on was released on its version 2.4 some weeks ago. Log4tailer has helped me to catch some undesirable log traces in many Java enterprise applications in my career. I’ve seen many QA … Continue reading

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Log4Tailer 1.50

Log4Tailer 1.50 http://code.google.com/p/log4tailer provides interesting new features in order to monitor your logs. It’s a dedicated application to monitor the status of your logs regardless if your application provides its own monitoring platform or not. It is helping me a … Continue reading

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Hyphenation in LaTeX

I was typesetting my CV in LaTeX with a mix of Spanish and English when I got aware that when running pdfLaTeX it  was not uploading hyphenation patterns for Spanish. I was using Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04. After some investigation I … Continue reading

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Log4Tailer 1.42 released

I released Log4Tailer 1.42 http://code.google.com/p/log4tailer/ on Monday. It is just a minor release affecting mostly on the final reports once you finish tailing a log. Log4Tailer allows you to tail logs in colors amongst other features. It is very useful … Continue reading

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What do you do in your computer?

I just wrote some days ago a Python program that tells you how do you spend your time with in your computer. Take a look at http://www.jordilin.com/pyhacks. Only works for Linux and requires python.

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