git log --format='%aN <%ae>' | sort -u | uniq

Or for just the e-mail address:

git log --format='%ae' | sort -u | uniq

Or for just the name:

git log --format='%aN' | sort -u | uniq

This is in the help manual but it’s way down the bottom so takes ages to read through to find it.

Lots of useful looking stuff for working with EC2, S3 and EBS volumes that I can see me taking a lot more advantage of in the future.

• Antenna House Formatter V5 – converts HTML and CSS to PDF, including support for MathML. Heck, supporting CSS well is a plus – most HTML to PDF conversions don’t. Hat tip to one of our clients for finding that.
• jQuery Tools – there are plenty of JavaScript UI libraries around, but this one looks better componentized than most. It’s also a good, small set of components that normal web pages are likely to want, rather than being more specifically useful in web applications, though it could be used there too.
• FlowPlayer – actually I knew about this one but only just got around to looking at the details. Handy looking open source flash video player. They’ve somehow converted the GPL into a license that requires attribution which is really odd, most likely to keep their commercial licensing option open. It’s their license so they can do what they want with it but I would have thought there’d be a better fitting license.

Hat tip to Henri Sivonen for pointing this out along with a bunch of other useful XML generating tips.

• openmotif
• compat-libstdc++

Depending on the options you chose when first installing Linux there may be more – the easiest way to find them is to know that the graphical installer sends it’s error messages to /tmp/wpinstalllog.txt. It’s usually fairly easy to match the error messages up to the package you need to install to fix it.

Don’t be put off by the fact that it prints an error about not being able to connect to the X server to the terminal – that’s usually a red herring. Open an xterm instance to confirm the connection to the X server works and then go back to tracking down missing packages.

When Can I Use? – Useful page for getting a rough idea of the current state of support for web stuff in browsers.  Not perfect but definitely a very good starting point.

HTML 5 Rendering Section – Actually the entire draft spec is a good reference for anyone parsing or rendering HTML.  Since EditLive! does both this is likely to be useful.

Factors That Improve Online Experiences – Interesting research on how user’s navigate web sites and the misconceptions designers have about how usable their sites are.

Replacement iPhone Earphones Review – since my standard set seem to be dying this looks handy.

Google Mobwrite – Interesting looking JavaScript real-time collaborative editing implementation. The theory section is particularly worth studying.

How To Unlock the Huawei E220 HSDPA modem – can’t really see that I’ll need to use this, but useful to know it’s possible.

Sadly, since VMWare isn’t installed as a Debian package, it’s not included in that list of services to reboot so it will suddenly stop allowing you to log in. The fix is to simply restart the vmware management services:

sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt restart

This won’t restart your VMs, just the web access and other management components. You can now log in to the web access console using the appropriate OS accounts (by default I think only root is enabled).