Posted by Andrew
Tue, 30 May 2006 18:22:00 GMT
and it is coming up fast. O’Reilly’s Annual Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon, that is. If you have never been, come on out. I’ve been to a good number of conferences and conventions in my I.T. career, and I have found OSCON to be the most informative, stimulating, and just plain fun. Just hanging with the folks who make a career of thinking outside the box is worth the price of admission. So, I hope to see you there…
If you do plan to come, let me know, and we’ll get together for one of Portland’s famous microbrews…
Posted in Tech Talk | Tags conferences, networking, opensource | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Sat, 20 May 2006 17:46:00 GMT
In a recent family conversation in the cozy family room festooned with the artwork of daughters (See my Flickr pages) we were discussing our children’s recent literature studies, and various literary devices. At the perfect moment in the conversation, 12 year-old Lydia chimed in with “Yes, and we learned about smilies too…”
:-/
:-o
;-)
Posted in 127.0.0.1 | Tags family, humor, quotes | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Wed, 17 May 2006 22:01:00 GMT
Here are 2 helpful and colorful sheets to print and paste up at your desk:
this one for basic Rails stuff
and
this one for TextMate commands for Rails hackers
assuming of course that you are a Rails developer blessed with a Mac and that excellent editor, TextMate
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Mac OS X | Tags howto, macosx, rubyonrails, textmate | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Mon, 08 May 2006 22:52:00 GMT
In the interest of reducing security threats to your Mac, you should go out right now and get the latest security software designed specifically to address OSX vulnerabilities. NOT.
Don’t be suckered by those marketing FUD, or so says ZD Net UK in this article, in which the threat of danger to your mac from malicious attacks is compared to the danger of death from choking on ice cream.
“Phew. At last, the world is safe from the thousands of Intel-specific Mac viruses, worms, trojans and other malware that make today’s OS X experience one long struggle against evil. Or it would be, were there any. Which there aren’t. Not one.”
Posted in Mac OS X | Tags macosx, security | 2 comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:57:00 GMT
AVLUX takes its core values seriously. We realize that if we are going to claim Integrity as a core value, then we need to be sure we count the cost, and know what we are saying. We do not want to see the nobility of this beautiful word cheapened by our not fully understanding or appreciating its significance.
Read more...
Posted in AVLUX | Tags avlux, corevalues, integrity | 1 comment | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:26:00 GMT
Ruby for Rails by David Black is being very well received thus far. It is available now in PDF, and will be in paper in the beginning of May. You can view the Table of Contents online, as well as 2 sample chapters.
If someone can venture a guess as to why the cover features a bearded guy in his bathrobe, impersonating a mushroom, please let us know.
Posted in Ruby on Rails | Tags books, howto, ruby, rubyonrails | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:30:00 GMT
Back in the day of MyISAM, restoring a MySQL database was as simple as copying files from your backup.
No more is this the case with InnoDB. Therefore it is imperative that a good backup strategy includes doing MySQL dumps, comme ca:
# Dump Mysql DBs before backups
user=admin
pass=adminpass
destdir=/var/lib/mysql_dumps
ls -1 /var/lib/mysql | while read db;
do
/bin/nice -n 19 mysqldump -u admin --password=$pass $db > $destdir/$db.sql;
done
This is script is incorporated into AVLUX daily backups.
Posted in System Admin, AVLUX | Tags avlux, backup, database, mysql, sysadmin | no comments | no trackbacks
