I’ll be at Devops Down Under this weekend. This should be an amazing weekend, filled with talks which aim to help bridge the Developer and Sysadmin divide. I’ll be giving a presentation entitiled Commit early, Deploy often. I’ll be talking about using package management to empower developers to deploy applications locally just as they would [...]
October 8, 2009 – 4:46 pm
The Vqmetrics application needs to connect to two different databases. The first holds the videos, authors and their relevant statistics, while the second database holds the users, monitors and trackers. We do this by specifying two databases in config/database.yml. development: database: vqmetrics_devel < <: *login_dev_local vqdata_development: &VQDATA_TEST database: vqdata_devel <<: *login_dev_local So by default [...]
September 14, 2009 – 4:59 pm
One of the things I love about the Ubuntu project and launchpad is the Personal Package Archive. PPAs make it so simple and easy to backport packages. The only problem with PPAs is that they are public. I had a need to be able to host some private internal packages as well as squid with [...]
December 16, 2008 – 5:45 pm
Just spent a couple of hours trying to get a Mac OS X laptop connected to a Cisco IOS IPSEC/L2TP server. The existing configuration worked fine for windows and linux servers but the Mac just refused to establish a connection. The Cisco logs contained the usual cryptic message. Dec 16 16:53:47.955: IPSEC(validate_proposal_request): proposal part #1, [...]
November 4, 2008 – 5:08 pm
To quote Justaan: This is what we call the Melbourne Cup Network Effect It seems it really is the race that stops the nation. This is a graph of Bulletproof’s outbound web traffic for today. That’s a 37% drop in outbound traffic just after 3pm. Make sure you take note of my l33t gimp skills!
At Vquence we do a lot of crawling of various video hosting sites and where possible we like to use APIs or RSS feeds instead of page scraping. A semi-recent features of firefox is that when you click on an RSS link you get a “Subscribe to this feed in your favourite reader” header and [...]
