I’m setting up a Chef-based Ubuntu VM on my laptop, so I can get sandboxing and all the usual Ubuntu tools. Most things work on OS X too, but it’s a second-class citizen compared to poster child Ubuntu. I have Mongo and a few services set up there, for school stuff, and I noticed that […]
Most people write about cloud computing as it relates to their service infrastructure. It’s exciting to hear about how Netflix and Dropbox et al. use AWS to support their operations, but all of those large-scale ideas don’t really mean much for the average developer. Most people don’t have the budget or the need for enormous […]
From 1999 to mid-2011, the Daily Cal used an in-house CMS to run the website. It contains around 65,000 individual articles and thousands of images. But ever since we moved to WordPress, the old system has been collecting dust in the corner. It was about time that all of the old CMS content was archived […]
Vagrant is a nifty piece of Ruby software that lets you set up Virtual Machines with an unparalleled amount of automation. It interfaces with a VM provider like VirtualBox, and helps you set up and tear down VM’s as you need them. I like it better than Juju because there isn’t as much hand-holding involved, […]
The walls and microwaves of my house have always conspired to cripple the wifi signal in some rooms, especially the ones downstairs and the backyard. I recently got another wifi router to expand the range. They are daisy-chained from the modem with ethernet cables. My servers and printers are connected to the router in the […]