Reflections
During my day job as a sysadmin I spend all of my time in a text context. I read and write Python, English, bash, and on a bad day some SQL. Switching between text and speech, when someone comes into my office to ask me a question, can completely derail whatever I was doing. Context…
I've taken the Intro to Java class three times at SUU. The first two times I took it I had surgery and I wasn't able to finish the class. The first time The first time was absolutely awful. The professor showed up to class the first day, told us to go to his class files…
Over the last couple months I've been having more and more problems with my MBP reading and burning DVDs, honestly I've only tried to burn one DVD in the last two years so it may have been broken for longer. When I actually needed to burn a DVD, before the session could open, I would…
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About 10 days ago I ran into a technical problem (looking for the git source and git-manpages archives) that wasted hours of my time because I wasn't able to find a worthwhile search result. I pulled up MarsEdit and wrote about the solution I found, in anger. Within three days of writing the post; I…
I've been building and rebuilding an RPM for git since the RPMs that are published by pbone are full of junk that I don't want with it i.e., Gitweb, or missing pieces that I do want. The original RPM was built before Kernel.org was hacked (the full story can be found at [TheRegister](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/31/linux_kernel_security_breach/)) so the…
Read more: Where did the kernel.org git archives go after the hack?
In the move from 6th to 7th grade we were asked to pick between Art and Band. Those were the only two options. The rest of our six classes were chosen for us. Choosing band meant that for weeks during the summer we had to show up in the morning for practices, after picking an…
Over the last week, as part of my work, I needed to install, enable, and test 3 different procedural modules for PostgreSQL: PL/Tcl, Pl/Perl, and PL/pgSQL. By far the easiest was PL/pgSQL since it comes enabled by default on the database, a user simply needs to run: CREATE LANGUAGE plpgsql; After connecting to the database…
Technically it has been more than a month but for the last month, while I've been recovering from my surgery and getting sick every 2 weeks I've been stuck on a Java program that we were assigned. So it is technically really late, however, medical needs, yadda yadda means it's not. I've finally got it…
Preamble: As promised in my last blog post this post is going to be all about how to set up a server to run Cherokee with uWSGI for deploying Django or other Python applications. Server setup: I am going to make some assumptions about your server environment: You are running Ubuntu 10.04 or similar. Older…
What I had: In the past couple of months I have been looking for alternatives to my current web stack. My current web stack is: Django (my favorite web framework), nginx (frontend web server), apache + mod_wsgi (to serve the Django application), and PostgreSQL the database, obviously. Django isn't getting replaced because I like it…
Read more: New Django/Python deployment stack: Django, Cherokee, and uWSGI.