[Facebook] The Questions trap – get the questions YOU want

So I’ve been playing around with one of those recent Facebook features. That’s called “Did You Know?” aka Fun Facts.

I kept tapping on “New Question” most of the time because I wasn’t sure what to do with the most. You really need to think more than twice before posting anything on social media these days. Some questions like “A flaw of mine…” are too dangerous to answer unless you’re being sarcastic or posting some smart answer. Also, I my gut feeling tells me that Facebook may use some of the intelligence gathered through fun facts for targeted advertising and marketing. Who wants to be a target, eh?

[JIRA] Behaviours: Restricting an initializer by workflow

I had this problem when I was writing an initializer script for one of the custom fields in my JIRA instance.

Cleaning up Facebook “Friend” list

I created my Facebook account in 2007, when Facebook was slowly making its trend in this side of the world. And then I made the worst mistake – adding anyone.

[JIRA] Dev – Where are OSWorkflow Transition Screens?

Found a piece that isn’t well documented. But as usual, I’m explaining my steps and then the solution. It’s no real big deal anyway. 🙂

JIRA project migration with Google Spreadsheets

JIRA to JIRA project migration — most of the time this has been a headache when it comes to customer negotiations and compromises.

[JIRA] Broken Permission Schemes?

Edit (24 May): Spoiler alert! There’s a better way.

I came across a corrupted JIRA database with all projects lost their permission schemes.

Wunderlist Today wallpaper for Ubuntu

Wunderlist again. Currently this is the only Microsoft thing that I use – apart of Windows servers involved in my DevOps job.

[JIRA] Delete projects from XML backup using Python

[Experimental]

If you are a JIRA system administrator, have you ever come across the requirement of partially exporting JIRA into XML – probably for importing individual projects into another JIRA instance?

Password trainer software

I screwed it up again.

I logged into one of my e-mail accounts from a shared computer owned by someone else. This is something I never do (unless there’s a top urgency) because I fear keyloggers. So now, time has come to change the passwords. Next factor of two factor authentication will keep me protected, but still need to fix the first factor.

[JIRA] Bulk deleting pojects like a boss!

These days I’m working on a JIRA project which may require working with XML backups and project import tool. The JIRA instance I’m currently working on has over one million issues in thousands of projects (including defunct) – that collectively make the XML backup gigantic.

Have you ever come across the situation where you want to delete some of the projects in JIRA to reduce the size of XML backup? Well, here’s a quick script that I wrote. However, it requires the Adaptavist ScriptRunner add-on which is no longer free. 😦