Category Archives: Geekstuff

more always on applications … in the cloud

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Joe

I took the “always on application” and ran through some numbers this evening. I was curious – with the hosting options available today, what would it cost someone to run an “always on” application. The way I’m thinking about it, … Continue reading →

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The “always on” for desktop apps…

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been thinking about a problem I’m having with twitter – that I want to see more than I can easily watch unless I’m checking on it every hour or so. This gets especially problematic when I’m gone for a … Continue reading →

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Hadoop Day (Seattle)

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Joe

Attended Hadoop Day today at the Amazon PacMed building. Free “conference” setup – and it was very worthwhile. The morning was panels and general discussions – the brightest spot being learning about the whirr project. I’m afraid the link has … Continue reading →

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Hacking on OpenStack’s Nova

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Joe

Like quite a number of other folks, I’ve been lurking on the OpenStack mailing lists since I saw the announcements. Friday, Eric Day put out a call to help with the “get this code into shape” against PEP8 and pylint. … Continue reading →

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breaking the private network oasis addiction with OAuth

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Joe

Most reasonably (and larger) sized operations organizations have a pretty standard networking setup – or at least some close variation on the theme. ARIN wants public IP addresses behind load balancers, so most orgnizations front up their services through software … Continue reading →

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the CMDB is dead, long live the CMDB

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Joe

I work in an environment that has an existing CMDB. Over the past year, I’ve spent a fair number of man hours from my team and an equal number of hours of my own thinking about what it is, what … Continue reading →

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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Joe

I borrowed a copy of Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging from a friend today. Spent the bus ride home from the office flipping through the pages, and I’ve got to say – it’s a pretty darned good book! If you’re … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 10.04 (Desktop)

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been using Ubuntu as my distribution of choice for VM’s and server instances, and on a lark I took a swag at installing Ubuntu desktop onto a VM yesterday. I’ve got to say, it’s a pretty usable setup. I … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0 upgrade

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Joe

New theme, and updated back end – moved everything this afternoon to WordPress version 3.0. Upgrade worked like a champ – and I took the time to twiddle the theme into something new and switched around the various widgets. Since … Continue reading →

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WWDC 2010

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Joe

Ticketing system replaced and launched, I’m ready for a decompress. There’s pretty much no better place to do that, in my mind, than at WWDC in San Francisco this coming week. I used to send myself every other year. Strangely, … Continue reading →

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