No Code Is Sometimes Best – Head First Labs I would always rather write something the easy and elegant way and profile it than write it from scratch by default. tags: programming style tab-sweep-110602 Why you would want an appliance – and when you wouldn’t | DBMS 2 : DataBase Management System Services tags: database nosql… [Read more…]
March 17, 2010
Have you ever wanted to automatically run the same command every 5, 10, or 60 seconds on a Unix/Linux machine until the output changed? For example, let’s say that you’re deploying a new application on top of a Tomcat app server. After starting Tomcat and deploying your application, it can take a couple of minutes… [Read more…]
February 13, 2010
Rails Deployment: Production Configuration and Advanced Rails Tactics by Ezra Zygmuntowicz My rating: 4 of 5 stars Overall, this book had a lot of very good information, and it was very helpful to me as I deployed my first Ruby-On-Rails application into a “Production” environment. Here’s the high points: Lots of good information on tools… [Read more…]
November 13, 2008
Update (8/8/09): When I was originally comparing Jruby & Groovy, I was under the impression that Jruby was a beta-quality product, and its cryptic error messages seemed to prove this point. After a bit more research, I learned that Jruby is a robust and high-quality Ruby implementation and that all dynamic languages can give you… [Read more…]
February 15, 2008
I am about to finish my first non-trivial application written in Groovy (a medium-sized suite of administrative scripts), and so far I’m pretty happy with the language. I thought I would share some of my notes in case anyone else is considering the language for a similar application. Development Environment One nice thing about Groovy… [Read more…]
February 14, 2008
I’ve been using the Groovy programming language a lot lately at work to programmatically interact with systems that have Java interfaces. Simply put, it’s great, and it really makes my job as a sysadmin of Java middleware easier. Also, if you’ve tried other Java-based scripting languages like Jython in the past but have been disappointed… [Read more…]
February 14, 2008
I’m a big fan of using GNU Screen, a terminal multiplexer. At any given time, I could be interacting with a dozen different Unix servers at work. I therefore group servers into logical, named groups and jump back and forth between them using screen. I find the following one-liner functions to be incredibly helpful to… [Read more…]
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