iPads are just made for Screencasts
Killer app for iPads
- ruby on rails 14
- webperformance 6
- virtualization 6
- systems 6
- deprec 5
- json 4
- capistrano 3
- presentations 3
- axe sharpening 3
- javascript 3
- productivity 3
- deployment 3
- commandline 3
- host@home 3
- animalwelfare 3
- truth 3
- aws 3
- development 2
- browsers 2
- velocityconf 2
- psychology 2
- apple 2
- amazon 2
- cloud 2
- s3 2
- GIS 1
- git 1
- latency 1
- chef 1
- music 1
- ruby 1
- dev 1
- web services 1
- lost dogs home 1
- devops 1
- ec2 1
- heroku 1
- lifehacking 1
- light 1
- tldr 1
- vagrant 1
- perception 1
- smoking 1
- cloudformation 1
ruby on rails
Rails Web API Versioning
[2013-12-18 Why was so I attracted to the idea of versioning web APIs? I’ve never needed this.]
JSON with Ruby and Rails
JSON is a beautiful format for storing objects as human readable text. It’s succeeded where XML has failed. Not only is it not shit, it’s actually quite good...
Asset Fingerprinting with Paperclip
Update: My Asset Fingerprinting patch was included in paperclip-2.3.4 in Oct 2010. Thanks jyurek!
How to use deprec-1 when deprec-2 gem is released
[2013-12-19 I’ve not done any work on deprec in the past few years]
Getting monit to restart mongrel after a crash
An annoying aspect of the Mongrel webserver is that it refuses to start if it detects a stale pidfile. This causes real problems when you’re trying to use so...
Capistrano and Rake
Last night I read the chapter on automation in Tom Limoncelli’s book, Time Management for System Administrators. He spent a lot of time extolling the virtues...
Using rails-1.2.3 with Rails 2.0 Preview release installed
Rails 2.0 Preview has been released, along with a great summary of changes it includes:
Slides from my talk on Jester
Update: I’m using jester-1.3
Rails GIS Hacks slides
I’m excited by the content of these slides from the Rails GIS Hacks talk given on Monday at RailsConf Europe. Shoaib Burq and Kashif Rasul from Nomad Labs d...
Simply Jestful
Update: I’m using jester.js version 1.3.
Vim Syntax Highlighting for Rails
A couple of days I updated the font settings in terminal.app on my mac. It’s now in line with textmate using Anti-Aliased 14 point DejaVu Sans mono.
Enable SSH agent forwarding for Capistrano
Having to repeatedly enter passwords is a drag. And enabling password based SSH login to your SVN servers is a security risk. So I’m pretty excited that Chri...
Integrating Wordpress into a Ruby on Rails site
The first question you’ll probably ask is why I didn’t go with typo or mephisto. While I have to admit I haven’t tried them myself, I decided to use WordPres...
webperformance
Look At Your Data - John Rauser
While I couldn’t make it to this year’s O’Reilly Velocity 2011 I’m excited so the videos are available to watch for free. My favourite talk from last year wa...
Strange HTTP Performance Variations Between OS’s
[2013-12-19 I let latentsee.com lapse but you can still install latentsee on your own webserver]
TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance - John Rauser
I was fortunate enough to be in the room for this talk by John Rauser at Velocity 2010. I realized a few minutes in that this talk was (a) super interesting ...
Latency is a Killer
If you’re hosting your website overseas you might want to rethink. I’ve been doing some research on the true impact of hosting Australian websites in the U.S...
Asset Fingerprinting with Paperclip
Update: My Asset Fingerprinting patch was included in paperclip-2.3.4 in Oct 2010. Thanks jyurek!
virtualization
Vagrant notes
I’m a massive fan of Vagrant’s command line virtualisation goodness. This post is me trying to find a public place for my vagrant notes to rest (I couldn’t f...
Personal Cloudification
The Urge to Own…
Slicehost RIP
2013-12-19 Linode offers a great service with 1GB RAM VPS for $20/month
host@home: Setting Up Your Network
[2013-12-19 I’m not currently hosting @ home but Snowden leaks have made me rethink]
How To Loose Your Customer Base
Yes, the misspelling in the title is deliberate. See image below.
systems
Right-sizing your AWS Lambdas
I was recently able to reduce the cost of one of our serverless applications by more than half by reducing the memory allocated to the lambdas.
Why You Should Enable S3 Block Public Access
Amazon S3 enables you to accidentally share confidential information with the world. The potential impact of misconfiguration justifies implementing controls...
Don’t Buck the System, Change it
I don’t consider myself a Buddhist but attest to their belief that “Life is Suffering”. Not all of it all the time, but there’s always some waiting. To some...
Personal Cloudification
The Urge to Own…
Back To My Mac, Confessions of a Reluctant Apostate
Rethinking Fanboyism
RVM in Production
[update] Aussie Rubyists are discussing this on rails-oceania@googlegroups.com
deprec
cherry picking git commits
I’ve been a little bit slow to learn git. I put that down to it being my fourth version control system (after rcs, cvs and svn). Like a fourth child[1] it br...
How to use deprec-1 when deprec-2 gem is released
[2013-12-19 I’ve not done any work on deprec in the past few years]
Capistrano and Rake
Last night I read the chapter on automation in Tom Limoncelli’s book, Time Management for System Administrators. He spent a lot of time extolling the virtues...
deprec acts_as :desirable?
A search for deprec on technorati turned up this job ad that listed “Capistrano, Deprec, Monit” among the desirable skills. It’s motivating to see deprec bei...
Deprec Plugins using gem_plugin
I just added automatic plugin loading to deprec2 using Zeds gem_plugin gem. Now, a number of people have been asking if deprec will support other linux distr...
json
JSON in your Web Browser
Web browsers don’t tend to display JSON very nicely. See how yours does with this example. Some handy plugins that help with this. While they currently only ...
JSON with Ruby and Rails
JSON is a beautiful format for storing objects as human readable text. It’s succeeded where XML has failed. Not only is it not shit, it’s actually quite good...
JSON from Javascript
JSON is a beautiful format for storing objects as human readable text. It’s succeeded where XML has failed. Not only is it not shit, it’s actually quite good...
JSON from the Command Line
JSON is a beautiful format for storing objects as human readable text. It’s succeeded where XML has failed. Not only is it not shit, it’s actually quite good...
capistrano
How to use deprec-1 when deprec-2 gem is released
[2013-12-19 I’ve not done any work on deprec in the past few years]
Capistrano and Rake
Last night I read the chapter on automation in Tom Limoncelli’s book, Time Management for System Administrators. He spent a lot of time extolling the virtues...
Enable SSH agent forwarding for Capistrano
Having to repeatedly enter passwords is a drag. And enabling password based SSH login to your SVN servers is a security risk. So I’m pretty excited that Chri...
presentations
iPads are just made for Screencasts
Killer app for iPads
Pretty Code Samples in Presentations
Today is deprec day (well, the start of a deprec long weekend actually!).
axe sharpening
Look At Your Data - John Rauser
While I couldn’t make it to this year’s O’Reilly Velocity 2011 I’m excited so the videos are available to watch for free. My favourite talk from last year wa...
Making vim look like textmate (again!)
A few years ago I posted about my quest to make editing ruby in my terminal as beautiful as in Textmate. I’ve been back on linux for a year now but it’s only...
Vim Syntax Highlighting for Rails
A couple of days I updated the font settings in terminal.app on my mac. It’s now in line with textmate using Anti-Aliased 14 point DejaVu Sans mono.
javascript
JSON from Javascript
JSON is a beautiful format for storing objects as human readable text. It’s succeeded where XML has failed. Not only is it not shit, it’s actually quite good...
Slides from my talk on Jester
Update: I’m using jester-1.3
Simply Jestful
Update: I’m using jester.js version 1.3.
productivity
iPads are just made for Screencasts
Killer app for iPads
Back To My Mac, Confessions of a Reluctant Apostate
Rethinking Fanboyism
OmniFocus - GTD for OSX
Being a fan of Dave Allen’s personal productivity book “Getting Things Done”, I was excited to hear that The Omni Group are working on a tool I can use to im...
deployment
host@home: Setting Up Your Network
[2013-12-19 I’m not currently hosting @ home but Snowden leaks have made me rethink]
Fixing Chef’s “Attribute hotspot is not defined” error
I was trying to install Opscode’s Chef using the “Bootstrap Chef Rubygems Installation” method. It was failing hard with something about a ‘hotspot’.
Getting monit to restart mongrel after a crash
An annoying aspect of the Mongrel webserver is that it refuses to start if it detects a stale pidfile. This causes real problems when you’re trying to use so...
commandline
BlinkSale - How To Say Goodbye
What do you do when you want to stop using a service but it’s going to be a lot of effort to extract your data? Write a script to do it of course!
SSH compression can slow you down
Repost from my old blog
JSON from the Command Line
JSON is a beautiful format for storing objects as human readable text. It’s succeeded where XML has failed. Not only is it not shit, it’s actually quite good...
host@home
Personal Cloudification
The Urge to Own…
host@home: Setting Up Your Network
[2013-12-19 I’m not currently hosting @ home but Snowden leaks have made me rethink]
animalwelfare
Lost Dogs Home Cry Poor
[Update] The ABC have acknowledged that the Lost Dogs Home does actually get funding from government.
An Elaborate Hoax
Do you like mysteries? Want to help solve one?
Lost Dogs Home Can’t Justify Their Killing
[Update] Kate Hoelter is not among the more than 550 people who have Like’d this post on Facebook! We’re still waiting for her to come back with a figure for...
truth
Lost Dogs Home Cry Poor
[Update] The ABC have acknowledged that the Lost Dogs Home does actually get funding from government.
An Elaborate Hoax
Do you like mysteries? Want to help solve one?
Lost Dogs Home Can’t Justify Their Killing
[Update] Kate Hoelter is not among the more than 550 people who have Like’d this post on Facebook! We’re still waiting for her to come back with a figure for...
aws
Right-sizing your AWS Lambdas
I was recently able to reduce the cost of one of our serverless applications by more than half by reducing the memory allocated to the lambdas.
Why You Should Enable S3 Block Public Access
Amazon S3 enables you to accidentally share confidential information with the world. The potential impact of misconfiguration justifies implementing controls...
Semantic CloudFormation Parameter Values
Here’s a pure Cloudformation solution to two annoyances I encounter when managing AWS CloudFormation Parameters. It allows you to optionally specify exported...
development
Look At Your Data - John Rauser
While I couldn’t make it to this year’s O’Reilly Velocity 2011 I’m excited so the videos are available to watch for free. My favourite talk from last year wa...
cherry picking git commits
I’ve been a little bit slow to learn git. I put that down to it being my fourth version control system (after rcs, cvs and svn). Like a fourth child[1] it br...
browsers
JSON in your Web Browser
Web browsers don’t tend to display JSON very nicely. See how yours does with this example. Some handy plugins that help with this. While they currently only ...
Chrome is Most Popular Browser!
At least amongst visitors to my blog yesterday.
velocityconf
Strange HTTP Performance Variations Between OS’s
[2013-12-19 I let latentsee.com lapse but you can still install latentsee on your own webserver]
TCP and the Lower Bound of Web Performance - John Rauser
I was fortunate enough to be in the room for this talk by John Rauser at Velocity 2010. I realized a few minutes in that this talk was (a) super interesting ...
psychology
Back To My Mac, Confessions of a Reluctant Apostate
Rethinking Fanboyism
Wired to Care - Will Neuroscience Prove Jesus Right?
Humans, like the apes we evolved from, are social creatures. Cooperation has given survival advantages to our species. One interesting aspect of our wiring i...
apple
iPads are just made for Screencasts
Killer app for iPads
Back To My Mac, Confessions of a Reluctant Apostate
Rethinking Fanboyism
amazon
Personal Cloudification
The Urge to Own…
EC2 Outage: Pimp my Fail
Amazon are reporting degraded performance for some volumes in a single AZ in the us-east-1 region.
cloud
Personal Cloudification
The Urge to Own…
EC2 Outage: Pimp my Fail
Amazon are reporting degraded performance for some volumes in a single AZ in the us-east-1 region.
s3
Right-sizing your AWS Lambdas
I was recently able to reduce the cost of one of our serverless applications by more than half by reducing the memory allocated to the lambdas.
Why You Should Enable S3 Block Public Access
Amazon S3 enables you to accidentally share confidential information with the world. The potential impact of misconfiguration justifies implementing controls...
GIS
Rails GIS Hacks slides
I’m excited by the content of these slides from the Rails GIS Hacks talk given on Monday at RailsConf Europe. Shoaib Burq and Kashif Rasul from Nomad Labs d...
git
cherry picking git commits
I’ve been a little bit slow to learn git. I put that down to it being my fourth version control system (after rcs, cvs and svn). Like a fourth child[1] it br...
latency
Strange HTTP Performance Variations Between OS’s
[2013-12-19 I let latentsee.com lapse but you can still install latentsee on your own webserver]
chef
Fixing Chef’s “Attribute hotspot is not defined” error
I was trying to install Opscode’s Chef using the “Bootstrap Chef Rubygems Installation” method. It was failing hard with something about a ‘hotspot’.
music
How to find new music
[2013-12-18 Shankly disappeared in Feb 2012. I currently use Spotify]
ruby
BlinkSale - How To Say Goodbye
What do you do when you want to stop using a service but it’s going to be a lot of effort to extract your data? Write a script to do it of course!
dev
Rails Web API Versioning
[2013-12-18 Why was so I attracted to the idea of versioning web APIs? I’ve never needed this.]
web services
Rails Web API Versioning
[2013-12-18 Why was so I attracted to the idea of versioning web APIs? I’ve never needed this.]
lost dogs home
Lost Dogs Home Can’t Justify Their Killing
[Update] Kate Hoelter is not among the more than 550 people who have Like’d this post on Facebook! We’re still waiting for her to come back with a figure for...
devops
Why We Automate
Manual
ec2
EC2 Outage: Pimp my Fail
Amazon are reporting degraded performance for some volumes in a single AZ in the us-east-1 region.
heroku
EC2 Outage: Pimp my Fail
Amazon are reporting degraded performance for some volumes in a single AZ in the us-east-1 region.
lifehacking
Oil Lamps in the Geek House
Connect It by Chow Hon Lam
light
Oil Lamps in the Geek House
Connect It by Chow Hon Lam
tldr
Oil Lamps in the Geek House
Connect It by Chow Hon Lam
vagrant
Vagrant notes
I’m a massive fan of Vagrant’s command line virtualisation goodness. This post is me trying to find a public place for my vagrant notes to rest (I couldn’t f...
perception
Fun with Retinal Burns
Disclaimer: Don’t look at any bright light source. It may damage your eyes!
smoking
Smoking: Prevention & Treatment
When it comes to life threatening situations, prevention and treatment serve different purposes and importantly, different populations.
cloudformation
Semantic CloudFormation Parameter Values
Here’s a pure Cloudformation solution to two annoyances I encounter when managing AWS CloudFormation Parameters. It allows you to optionally specify exported...