Posted on Sat 12 September 2015 in Uncategorized
I ended up switching to a new blog yet again.
This time I'm using Pelican, a static site/blog generator with the amazing Flex theme by Alexandre Vicenzi. A link to the source can also be found within the main navigation menu.
Posted on Sun 21 December 2014 in Programming • Tagged with Python
I'm of the belief that just about anyone should have the right to expand on the functionality of a FLOSS tool, but I'm also really particular about code style, so I'd rather not deal with a ton of pull requests. I'm a difficulty person.
With this ...
Posted on Thu 17 July 2014 in Uncategorized • Tagged with Docker, LXC, Horrible
My sincere apologies for the title.
We've all heard of the (not so) new kid on the block: Docker. This application shipping tool has been garnering lots of attention for a while now, resulting in quite the amazing community, as well as it being pretty much directly responsible for ...
Posted on Sat 21 June 2014 in Web development • Tagged with PHP, Symfony2, Security, fail2ban
NOTE: This is a repost of an old article. I noticed that it was generating a bunch of 404s for some people, so I figured I'd dig it up.
Described as "a script kiddie's worst nightmare", fail2ban is a tool that reads log files, tries to match lines ...
Posted on Tue 17 June 2014 in Programming • Tagged with Horrible, Python
So here's the setting: you're a handsome, extremely charismatic all-rounder tech-type person. Apparently you're also a bit of a narcissist. On a warm and cosy evening you're sitting in front of your fireplace in your leather armchair sipping on a fine alcoholic beverage of your choice ...
Posted on Thu 12 June 2014 in Uncategorized • Tagged with Performance, Continuous delivery/integration/deployment, Jenkins CI, Horrible
Disclaimer: If you've ever looked at the "quiet period" feature before, this blog post will be extremely boring to you.
So today was the first time I took a real look at the quiet period setting available to Jenkins jobs.
I had created a pipeline using the build flow ...
Posted on Tue 27 May 2014 in Web development • Tagged with Symfony2, PHP
During the ongoing quest for high performance and high availability for your Symfony2 project, at some point you're going to want to stick your sessions into your database. Why, you ask? Well, consider the following scenario: