The archives.

Code, discoveries, detours. Collected over the years.

2011

How Liftweb changed my view of Web-Applications

First i want to talk a little bit about my Journey with web frameworks, since i’ve used quite a number of them, namely Django, Rails, Tapestry5, Wicket, CakePHP (lol), Play, Merb (my favorite for Ruby) and of course Liftweb. It all…

Coinmines - a Bitcoin Mining Pool Frontend

Today i finally found some time to do a little work on my project called CoinMines. CoinMines is an Open Source Web-Frontend for PoolServerJ and pushpool. Pooled mining is the process of hashing the transactions that occur in the…

println - a custom made suit

Since i published println, i’ve had a hand full of people asking me, why it is so minimalistic, why i didn’t implement more options and so on. Since most of the people were open to my view of things, i wanted to write a bit about it, so…

println - My new Blogging Software

Yesterday i finally finished writing version 0.1 of my blogging software called println, today even 0.2 hit github. Also i have moved this blog from Nesta CMS to println just now. ;) I am basically just pasting my README.md here:…

PowerDNS with Ruby Datamapper

Today i got asked on twitter on how i did my PowerDNS Setup with DataMapper, so i thought “why not make a post out of it?”. Anyway, the code is pretty straight forward. DNS ZoneIn my Setup, i have 2 different Models for DNS Names, one…

Bandwidth-tests with my Juniper J2320 Router

The Juniper J2320 is a modular router for enterprises running desktops, servers, VoIP, CRM/ERP/SCM applications. It offers three PIM slots for additional LAN/WAN connectivity and has all the basic licenses for BGP, OSPF…

How bad MySQL really is

I’ve got a customer who has an image gallery, sadly they often have problems with performance. Our first big migration was from Apache with mod_php to nginx with FastCGI and MySQL being on a seperate host. This has worked for almost a…