Einnahmen - Ausgaben vorarlberger Gemeinden 2011

Vor 3 Wochen habe ich mir mal die veröffentlichten Open Government Daten von Vorarlberg angeschaut und dachte mir es wäre interessant gewisse Daten auf einer Karte zu veröffentlichen. Ich wusste vorerst gar nicht welche Daten ich da verwenden möchte und habe mich mal umgeschaut. Leider musste ich feststellen, dass es gar nicht so einfach ist, einfach zu verwendende Daten zu finden.

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Project Launch - Integration Platform As A Service (iPAAS)

Last wednesday, the project I was working on for the last 6 months finally went live. It was not just any other project, but we have launched a so called iPAAS (Integration Platform AS A Service). I was the responsible Software / Infrastructure Architect and the main developer of the Rails stack. At the same time I had the opportunity to introduce the agile methodologies I’ve been using over the last two years, to the company through this project.

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Printer is cutting off top of the page - Brother

I am using a Brother Printer (DCP-7030) on Linux and have set it up using the drivers from the brother page. See my guide here. Unfortunately for some reason the top of the page is cut off when printing a page. After trying to set all settings in the printer configurations, nothing worked. After googling around I found a thread that helped me to fix it.

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Run Rake tasks in Cucumber or RSpec

Quick writedown on how to run Rake tasks in Cucumber or Rspec. There are a few answers out on Stackoverflow but those didn’t exactly fit my needs. Using the setup they provided worked well on running individual scenarios, but failed when you ran 2 scenarios at the same time, and each did invoke 1 or 2 rake tasks.

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