Regetwitter Fail
The website formerly known as Twitter recently made some changes in the way they handled domains. This change has since been reverted or corrected, but the fact it happened at all should be a lesson to developers everywhere.
I won’t speculate on what problem they were trying to solve over at X Corp. Essentially, they were doing a replacement on “x.com”, changing it to “twitter.com”. Normal stuff when you’re trying to decide which domain you actually want to use, which they seem to be struggling with a little.
Citrix Receiver Extension APIs
This document lists CSS and Javascript extension points for Citrix Receiver. Unless otherwise specified, these extensions apply to both web and native clients. It used to be hosted on Citrix’s website, but is currently 404’ing. It’s also available on the Wayback Machine.
CSS Classes for Customization
Areas Commonly Customized
.logo-container.logon-logo-containerCompany logo to replace the default logo in the main UI and authentication screens. Should specify a background image and background size.
ScanSnap Manager Evernote Edition
Some unknown1 amount of time ago, Fujitsu stopped supporting the ScanSnap Manager Evernote Edition software. The scanner’s still usable, but you need to perform a firmware upgrade to be able to use it with ScanSnap Home.
However, to be able to perform the firmware upgrade, you still need to have the legacy ScanSnap Manager Evernote Edition software installed - which isn’t easy to find if you don’t currently have it installed. If you do have the legacy application installed, go ahead and follow the instructions on Fujitsu’s website to complete the firmware upgrade.
OCI: Don't Even Think About It
Back when Oracle announced their cloud offering, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), I was originally intrigued. I figure I’d give it a try, after all I’m not a big fan of AWS and I’m even less a fan of Azure. At the beginning I decided to forget about Oracle’s reputation, and, damn was that a mistake.
I stuck to the free tier, using only two low-powered instances to run a test application as well as a wiki. Everything was going great until this morning. My last time browsing my wiki was last night at about 21:00, and it worked great! This morning I went to look something up and I was greeting with a nice Connection Timeout error. “Great, the gollum service probably died again,” I thought. It should be an easy fix! I’d just SSH in and do a quick service restart.
Nerdy Site Improvements
Let’s skip right over how long it’s been since I’ve written a blog post
and dive right into some recent changes I’ve made on this site. A lot of
it is behind the scenes in the scripts I use to manage creating new
posts, publishing drafts, deploying the site to my server and just today
I wrote a quick ruby script that adds the current commit hash to
_config.yml.
In case you aren’t already aware, I use Jekyll as my static-site generator.