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We needed to add 100+ bugs to our FogBugz database today, and I figured it would be easier to write a tool to import them than to enter them all by hand. Thank goodness for the FogBugz XML API and the Python library.
This tool reads from a CSV file (with header row) and adds the case via the API.
Example CSV data:
Category,Title,Project,Assigned To,Priority,Status,Milestone Feature,"Report is incorrect",Website,Unassigned,3 - Very Important,Active,Product Backlog Feature,"Login fails",Website,me@website.com,3 - Very Important,Active,Product Backlog Feature,"Logo is incorrect",Website,Unassigned,3 - Very Important,Active,Product Backlog
import csv
import sys
import os
from fogbugz import FogBugz
if len(sys.argv) < 5:
sys.exit("Usage: python fbInportCSV.py <URL> <USER> <PASSWORD> <CSV FILE>")
# Make sure the CSV file exists
if not os.path.exists(sys.argv[4]):
sys.exit('ERROR: CSV file %s was not found!' % sys.argv[4])
fburl = sys.argv[1]
fbuser = sys.argv[2]
fbpass = sys.argv[3]
csvfile = sys.argv[4]
# Connect to FogBugz server
fb = FogBugz(fburl)
fb.logon(fbuser, fbpass)
# For each row, print key data and add to FogBugz
with open(csvfile, 'rb') as csvfile:
csvreader = csv.DictReader(csvfile)
for row in csvreader:
print "Adding:"
print " Title : " + row["Title"]
print " Project : " + row["Project"]
print " Category : " + row["Category"]
print " Milestone : " + row["Milestone"]
print "======================="
fb.new(sTitle=row["Title"],
sProject=row["Project"],
sCategory=row["Category"],
sFixFor=row["Milestone"]
)
A very exciting discovery by NASA:
Scientists announced Thursday the discovery of three planets that are some of the best candidates so far for habitable worlds outside our own solar system — and they’re very far away.
NASA’s Kepler satellite, which is keeping an eye on more than 150,000 stars in hopes of identifying Earth-like planets, found the trio.
Two of the planets — Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f — are described in a study released Thursday in the journal, Science. They are part of a five-planet system in which the candidates for life are the farthest from the host star.
The host star — the equivalent of Earth’s sun — takes the name Kepler-62, where the individual planets are designated by letters thereafter.
The third planet that’s potentially habitable, but not included in the Science study, is called Kepler-69c. Liquid water could theoretically exist on the surfaces of any of them, researchers said.
“With all of these discoveries we’re finding, Earth is looking less and less like a special place and more like there’s Earth-like things everywhere,” said Tom Barclay, Kepler scientist at the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute in Sonoma, California.
“April is the cruellest month“.
On a better note, my daughter and I were both born in April. 
Thunderbolt vs USB 3.0 vs eSATA | News | TechRadar
eSATA delivers 3Gbps, with older eSATA 1.5 devices offering 1.5Mbps; USB 3.0, also known as Superspeed USB, goes up to 5Gbps; and Thunderbolt is a very respectable 10Gbps. As Intel puts it, that’s enough to “transfer a full-length HD movie in less than 30 seconds”.
Since the game’s release, in 2009, Minecraft has sold in excess of twenty million copies, earned armfuls of prestigious awards, and secured merchandising deals with LEGO and other toymakers. Last year, Persson earned over a hundred million dollars from the game and its merchandise. Persson—better known to his global army of teen-age followers by his Internet handle, Notch—has a raggedy, un-marketed charm. He is, by his own admission, only a workmanlike coder, not a ruthless businessman. “I’ve never run a company before and I don’t want to feel like a boss,” he said. “I just want to turn up and do my work.”
Each Minecraft sale flows straight to Mojang’s pocket—there are no middlemen—and, since the game is digitally distributed, there is no physical product to manufacture, store, or ship. After Minecraft, none of Persson’s subsequent games need to turn a profit. In 2011, he gave his £2.2 million Mojang dividend to his employees. “The money is a strange one,” he says. “I’m slowly getting used to it, but it’s a Swedish trait that we’re not supposed to be proud of what we’ve done. We’re supposed to be modest. So at first, I had a really hard time spending any of the profits. Also, what if the game stopped selling? But after a while, I thought about all of the things I’d wanted to do before I had money. So I introduced a rule: I’m allowed to spend half of anything I make. That way I will never be broke. Even if I spend extravagant amounts of money, I will still have extravagant amounts of money.”
What an excellent idea.
The Cubicle with a Hidden Gaming System:
Lifehacker reader JonesyVan’s workspace looks like your typical cubicle. Hidden in the filing cabinet, however, is some serious entertainment for break times (i.e., “when Bossman decides to exit his office”): a wall-mounted TV and Xbox 360.
(Via Lifehacker)
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