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Buckler is Shields as a Service (ShaaS, or alternatively, Badges as a Service) for use in GitHub READMEs, or anywhere else. Use Buckler with your favorite continuous integration tool, performance monitoring service API, or ridiculous in-joke to surface information. Buckler is MIT licensed. You are free to: Host your own version of Buckler. Download and re-serve generated shields. Link directly to b.repl.ca for static information display (eg licensing details). Redirect to b.repl.ca from another service for dynamic information (eg build status). »

To get squeezeboxserver working on Fedora, add the following to /etc/sysconfig/iptables: # squeezebox -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 9000 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 3483 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 3483 -j ACCEPT »

After nearly seven years, Friday marked my last day at Red Hat. I’m taking a week off to focus on growing my beard and brewing a lot, before starting my next adventure. If you need to reach me, I’m still on teh internets. »

If you’re expecting curl –cert somefile.pem to work, and you keep getting 403s in response, it might be because your curl is compiled against NSS, and that cert is being interpreted as an alias to an NSS DB entry. Use curl –cert ./somefile.pem instead. Fwiw, this is documented in the curl man page, but who looks there? …Or use wget instead. »

If you need an implementation of an HTTP CONNECT client to tunnel SSL (or anything else) through a proxy using Netty, Chris Duryee and I recently landed a patch to do so in Thumbslug. By all means, make use of it! The original changeset is here. »

Using Android’s Roboto font is pretty easy on Fedora (or any other Linux flavour). Just download the Roboto zip, open it up, copy the ttf files into your ~/.fonts dir, and refresh your font cache. From there, you can use the font in any program (though you may need to reload it first). Here are the steps: `` wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/design/Roboto_Hinted_20111129.zip unzip Roboto_Hinted_20111129.zip mkdir ~/.fonts mv Roboto_Hinted_20111129/*.ttf ~/.fonts fc-cache `` »

[] (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bowes/6893738855/) Side View: The side of a slab of pork _belly is __ quite obviously delicious_ bacon, only raw. A few weeks ago I acquired a slab of pork belly from a local Nova Scotian farmer, with the intention of making Bacon from scratch. Plenty of different cuts of meat preserved in different ways can be qualified as bacon; I decided on typical North American pork belly, salt cured and smoked. »

Here is a Stack Overflow icon in the style of Glyphicons I did for my ‘about me’ sidebar section: Feel free to use it however you want. »

I tried to see how many cool toys I could use to create my own blogger template. So far I have: 960 Grid System for a nice 2 column layout. Haml for the unstyled template. Sass for style. Compass and Rake to tie it all together. You can find the result on github, here. Any readers who have noticed a similarity in chosen technology to those used by Katello get bonus points! »

I had some UI elements in an Android application I’m working on that felt as if they should be above (pushing out of the screen, rather than to the top of it) the elements that followed them in the UI. A good way to indicate this is with a drop shadow, similar to those on Android title bars or Action Bars. An existing method didn’t work for me, as my UI is relying heavily on weights to keep proper size ratios between the elements I wanted to add a drop shadow to, and the element they would be casting a shadow on. »