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I just needed to repack a Debian package to solve this problem. After a quick spin to #debian I got this solution:

$ mkdir -p extract/DEBIAN
$ dpkg-deb -x package.deb extract/
$ dpkg-deb -e package.deb extract/DEBIAN
[...do something, e.g. edit the control file...]
$ mkdir build
$ dpkg-deb -b extract/ build/

• -x extracts the package contents
• -e extracts the control files
• -b builds the new package

Done.

Für Zeiten, in denen Kaffee längst zu einem Genussmittel ohne spezielle Wirkung degradiert wurde, die Wirkung herkömmlicher Energydrinks zu wünschen übrig lässt, Schlaf zu einem Luxusgut geworden ist und die Situation trotzdem langes und konzentriertes Arbeiten fordert: der Pure Semesterabschluss Special.

Zutaten:

• 125 ml Pure Cofain 699
• 200 ml Sprite
• 1 Spritzer Zitronensaft
• ½ TL Rohrzucker

Alle 3-5h ein Gläschen sollte für “3 Tage wach” reichen. Achtung bei Sprite und Zucker: die Mischung schäumt dadurch ziemlich hoch auf, also am besten in einem ausreichend dimensionerten Glas anmischen (siehe Foto).

Im Gegensatz zu Pure Cofain existieren zu diesem Drink weder wissenschaftliche Studien noch Feldtests, die die Verträglichkeit dieses Drinks garantieren. Ich übernehme daher keine Haftung für etwaige, durch den Konsum des Drinks entstandene, gesundheitliche Schäden. Mehr Infos zu Gefahren, Wirkung und allem weiteren gibt es auf der Webseite des Herstellers.

Viel Spaß

Ab sofort gibt es in meinem Raumbelegung-Webservice die Möglichkeit, die Wochenübersicht via iCal abzurufen. Dadurch lässt sich der Service komfortabel in Kalenderapplikationen (z.B. der Thunderbird-Extension Lightning) verwenden. Verwendung: einfach an eine Wochenübersicht den Parameter format/ical anhängen oder die entsprechenden Links am Ende der Übersicht verwenden.

Um zum Beispiel immer die aktuelle Woche des Studiengangs WI07 als Kalender in meinem Thunderbird anzeigen zu können, habe ich dort folgende URL als iCal-Quelle angegeben:

http://raumbelegung.stud.ailoo.net/week/show/class/wi07-vz/format/ical

Vorschläge sind wie üblich willkommen

Usually, I’m using PHP for web projects, but currently I’m working on an application using ASP.NET’s MVC framework. In many frameworks (e.g. Zend Framework or CakePHP) there is some kind of messaging system (flash messages), which allows to save a message to the session and to display it on the next request. This is useful in many situations, but mostly used after saving forms. So for example you recieve a POST request to create a new record, you save the record, redirect the user to the overview page and inform him about successful creation through a flash message which you saved before doing the redirect. As I didn’t find a way how to achieve this in ASP.NET MVC, I started to build an own solution. The result is a combination of a base controller, an action filter and a flashmessenger object which is stored in the session. Please note that I’m not too familiar neither with ASP.NET nor with C#/.NET in general, so if there are things to improve please feel free to correct me.

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Sehr geile newsmap als Übersicht, was gerade so los ist. Ich steh irgendwie immer mehr auf so Aggregator-Zeugs (via)

Today I spent some time setting up a new Zend Framework application using ZF 1.8.0 Beta 1 and the new component Zend_Application. Using that component, all bootstrapping is done by Zend_Application_Bootstrap and so-called resource plugins. Such resource plugins are responsible for initialization of single components such as front controller, database or the view. This way, the whole bootstrapping is nicely modularized and keeps some headache away. In addition, the majority of settings can be set in the application config file. As I ran into some issues, I’d like to note the required steps and hope that it’s useful so someone. I won’t explain the files in detail, you can find enough information about components and parameters on the manual and the quickstart, but you should get to a working setup with just copy&pasting the code here

Basically a big part of this setup can be done using the new Zend_Tool CLI, however I had some problems setting it up, so I’ve done it manually (however most of the code is the one generated by Zend_Tool).

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I just released a simple WordPress widget which allows you to show links to NextGEN Gallery galleries in your sidebar. For more information and download take a look at the wordpress repository.

I was running a Xen server with Debian Etch as dom0 (Linux 2.6.18-6 with Xen 3.0.3-1 on AMD64) for some time now. Today, I decided to upgrade the dom0 to Debian Lenny (Linux 2.6.26-2 with Xen 3.2.1-2). The domUs are all running a Debian-based OS (3x Lenny, 1x Ubuntu Hardy). The upgrade was quite straightforward, however there were some pitfalls you can avoid in advance.

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For a student project we needed to authenticate an apache host against a MySQL database, in this a case we wanted to handle authentication for a Subversion repository with a Redmine database. I know that Redmine has its own solution for this problem using Redmine.pm, but for some reason that approach didn’t work and we didn’t have the time to bug around with it. This howto is written for the use with Redmine (especially the database view), but you should get the point how to set it up on other environments. The howto was done on an Ubuntu 8.10 box but should work on any other distro as well (except for the module installation). I assume that you got all the other stuff (apache, mysql, …) up and running.

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