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Recently posted on my main webpage in the other section, is a PDF of a presentation I gave at the Baltimore Elixir and Erlang Meetup. I covered how I got a simple Elixir project testing on Codeship's docker platform. Here is the direct links for Elixir and Codeship …
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Recently posted on my main webpage in the other section, are PDFs of presentations I gave at the Baltimore Elixir and Erlang Meetup. I'm really enjoying working with Elixir and Ansible (see my previous post on Ansible). Here are the direct links for Elixir and Anisble and the Intro to …
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The other day I quit working with one of my Chef repositories for some servers I manage. I quit in rage. I quit because nothing worked how I wanted it to. History I started using Chef in 2011. At that time, Puppet and Chef were the big players in this …
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Just posted on my main webpage in the other section, a PDF of a presentation I gave during lunch at work. I think it really helps, when building web applications, to understand how HTTP works. I gave a quick presentation on the fundamentals. Enjoy! Here is the direct link. …
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I believe that it is best to understand the configuration and behavior of the tools I use. I don't appreciate a 'black box' approach to technology. I've always wanted to understand how and why things work the way they do. Throughout my website tech series, I tried to explain the …
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Just posted on my main webpage in the other section, a PDF of a presentation I gave at lunch one day at work. Here is the direct link. Enjoy! …
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There is a common pattern I've seen, in guides about Ruby on Rails deployment via Capistrano, to setup a maintenance pages or a maintenance mode. The guides help you configure nginx such that the existence of the maintenance page causes the nginx proxy to return the maintenance page instead of …
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It is easy to create a hugely complex disaster recovery plan with all kinds of redundancy and failover. It is also easy to spend a ton of money doing so. There are cases however, where a daily snapshot, and the ability to boot up that most recent snapshot, is plenty …
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Coming up at the end of April, it will have been one year since I relaunched my website and blog. I'm going to take this opportunity to reflect on this past year. Writing One of my main reasons for keeping this blog is to get myself to write more. I …
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Less than a year ago I posted my podcast listening playlist for the spring of 2015. Since then I've kept up with many of those podcasts, and I gave you an update of changes to my playlist in the fall of 2015. Now I've made some major shifts in my …