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05 July 2011 ~ Comments Off

Introduction To DSAC

A while ago @ripienaar and I had a chat
in a pub about monitoring, event systems and lots of related subjects. As
we all know he’s way more productive than is fair and so while he’s been
doing a BUNDLE of work with on subjects like monitoring framewo…

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14 May 2011 ~ Comments Off

Wrapping MCollective with Nagios

I’ve been doing a little tinkering with pre/post release checklists and
compliance reporting using cucumber and some Nagios wrapping (among
other things) in my test lab and recently needed to do some higher level
entire environment checks before movin…

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17 March 2011 ~ Comments Off

DOM Monster

There is an interesting new JavaScript tool circulating today – DOM Monster. DOM Monster is our answer to JavaScript performance tools that just don’t give you the full picture. DOM Monster is a cross-platform, cross-browser bookmarklet that will analyze the DOM & other features of the page you’re on, and give you its bill of [...]

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23 August 2010 ~ Comments Off

Adventures in Cronologger

Cronjobs are one of those necessary evils of any decent sized Unix setup,
they provide often essential pieces of a sites data flows but are often
treated as second class citizens. While I’ve already mentioned my Cron
commandments I’m always looking fo…

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23 August 2010 ~ Comments Off

Adventures in Cronologger

Cronjobs are one of those necessary evils of any decent sized Unix setup,
they provide often essential pieces of a sites data flows but are often
treated as second class citizens. While I’ve already mentioned my Cron
commandments I’m always looking fo…

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06 June 2010 ~ Comments Off

Netbeans vs Commandline

The last time we interviewed for Java developers (a couple of jobs
ago) it came as quite a surprise at how few of them could function
without their IDE of choice. A high percentage of the candidates
struggled to compile using javac, had problems navig…

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