Code, discoveries, detours. Collected over the years.
Good evening everyone, so you thought i stopped blogging, but i didn’t. What i did do? Well, i wrote some amazing Scala stuff. Apart from my Liftweb, Netty and Akka Talk at SkillsMatter, London, i was busy coding some awesome stuff for…
So last night i got really bored, so i tried to integrate VLANs in my existing Xen4 setup. While googling for solutions, i only found things where i’d have to statically allocate VLANs for every customer on every host through…
A few days ago i had to use Cassandra for my special project, so i went on to search for usable clients. First i tried Cascal, which felt a bit clunky, so i decided to try Cassie (Twitter) which couldn’t create Keyspaces in code. So i…
First off, i’ve never thought of myself as a presenter. My dad always taught me things but i didn’t really listen, to my dismay i must add. Anyway, i think i’ve done quite okay in the past (since i got good feedback). But this fall, you…
For a few months now i’ve been doing some CSV Imports in my Liftweb projects. This mostly is because the old databases i am migrating to something normal (PostgreSQL or MongoDB) are badly designed (mostly MySQL) and therefore i don’t…
I’ve been talking with a lot of folks lately about Configuration Management/Automation Systems. Mainly about puppet vs cfengine. The first question i usually ask people recommending interpreter solutions (ruby, perl, python..) is…
Wir hören ja immer wieder, dass die Piratenpartei kein Programm hat, dass es an Inhalten fehlt. Ganz abgesehen davon, dass dies nicht stimmt, gibt es bestimmt viele Piraten-Wähler, die sich trotzdem nicht mit dem Programm auskennen oder…
When using Ruby, i found myself frequently making things like formatting methods to display a variety of things. def formatDouble(dbl) "%.2f" % dbl end Often these output formatters are render-specific, so defining them on the…
So i’ve spent the past 3 days in London, to be more specific, at Skills Matter together with David Pollak. First off, i don’t like London. I don’t know if it’s the UK, but i defiantly hate the City for various reasons (tho i love Fish…
I encounter stupidity on a daily basis, wether it is wannabe Linux-Admins like this guy “gehirn”/“gott” i chatted with on several occasions, but it’s not just him, he’s one of the 99% of Occupied by Brainfarts in my line of work.…