Where Are The Wise Men?

I have a GPX file of geocaches that I have found and a load of .loc files from Geocaching.com. What I wanted was to get a non-repeating list of caches that I haven’t found that are in a 2 mile radius of my workplace (for easy lunchtime caching, of course). And I wanted [...]

Robert Lipe, the author of GPSBabel, told me about other tricks:

GPSBabel can not only handle many differen types of input files, but those files can be of different type.  Example (from the README):

gpsbabel -i geo -f 1.loc -i gpx -f 2.gpx -i pcx 3.pcx -o gpsutil -F big.gps

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Andy Fowler wrote a PHP script that scrapes Geocaching.com and puts them in a KML format which is used by Google Maps. But Geocaching.com made him take it down! So he put up the script for anyone to hack on. Robert Lipe, the author of [...]

One of the reasons my wife decided to get me a GPS for my birthday was that geocaching seemed to be something that would appeal to me — because it’s a hobby that I showed some interest in and that it could reach into my geeky side. And Gina didn’t know how right she [...]

Someone sent Tim Bray the notes from a New England Town Meeting about Open Documents. In case you didn’t hear, the state of Massachusetts has drafted a proposal to use the Open Document Format over Microsoft Office.

My favorite snippet:

MSFT: This appears to be an assault on the intellectual property of the private sector. [...]

You can probably see some strange de.lirio.us links on the left. All of them are under a new tag — “geocache“.

Yes, it’s a new hobby that I have started — thanks to my wife, who got me a GPS for my birthday! Thanks, Gina! It’s a pretty cool device and it has [...]

If you are somewhat familiar with Java development and Ant, prepare to see the strangest thing you have seen in a long while. I can show you better than I can explain it. Check out this command:

$ jar tf wpGateway.war|grep ActDisplayAction WEB-INF/classes/com/workpoint/gateway/admin/framework/action/ActDisplayAction.class WEB-INF/classes/com/workpoint/gateway/admin/framework/action/ActDisplayAction.class

No, I didn’t doctor the output — I have a war file that [...]

I’ve been looking for a good way to syncronize files between my work machine (Windows) and my home machine (Linux). I’ve even tried writing my own scripts to do it, but nothing seemed to be right. I’ve always thought, “There has to be something out there.”

I stumbled onto Unison almost by accident. [...]

I’ve been working in Java and LDAP stuff — you know, mostly basic LDAP things. The one thing I’ve been struggling with is how to see what groups a user is a member of. I’m 100% OpenLDAP provides way to do it in one LDAP query, but alas I can’t find it.

Google shows me [...]

Instead of slowly putting Phase 2 in “what do I want in my new blog?” I decided I might as well slowly do it and let you laugh at my progress.

Introducing Mike’s Software Garden, which is a series of little projects that I have worked on. Most aren’t things I am currently working on [...]