There are 2 ways of ordering your search results in the issue navigator within JIRA. You can click on the column header to sort the issues or you can use the “Order By” clause via JQL (JIRA Query Language). A JQL example would be “project = demo ORDER BY Assignee ASC” However, if you want… Read More »
This is all about endianness. That is, how the bits are arranged in memory. You can arrange these bits in memory 2 ways. In big endian or in little endian. Go to wikipedia for some background but esssentially big endian is the way the decimal system works and little endian is the reverse of this.… Read More »
Very neat book. Good movie as well!
If you have had the pleasure of delving into the block chain, you may have come across the term magic number. This is the first 4 bytes of every block in the block chain and is defined as: Network Magic value Sent over wire as main 0xD9B4BEF9 F9 BE B4 D9 testnet 0xDAB5BFFA FA BF… Read More »
There are lots of articles around how Bitcoin addresses are created. Most of the time you’ll be shown a few command lines to run and magically the results appear. For example, >> bitcoin-cli getnewaddress will output a new Bitcoin address in the command line of the Bitcoin-qt application but how does it work under the… Read More »
Very hands on with lots of screen shots. Unfortunate with lots of references to Mt Gox. 166 pages with good references. Readable in a few hours.
Getting Confluence 5.9.3 on my Mac this time was a little too easy. It took all of 5 minutes and left me wondering if I had missed something. Caveat: I had gone through the pain of installing Java when I installed JIRA so this helped a lot. If you haven’t installed JIRA, look at my… Read More »
In Ubuntu, this comes out of the box but in terminal on OSX a few extra steps are required to get this to work. It is a bit of a hassle figuring out what needs to be done, but once you know, it literally takes 10 seconds. Step 1: Download auto completion script: >> cd… Read More »
Neat book for an overview to whet your appetite. 100 pages. Readable in a few hours.
Getting JIRA 7.0.5 on to my mac wasn’t as straight forward as I’d expected but I finally got there in the end. The first thing to note from the Atlassian website is: which was taken from https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/installing-jira-on-mac-os-x-191501161.html. These steps are what we will be following as well. If you are interested in what I had to… Read More »