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Brook Stevens: June 2012

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012. They are also very easy to generate as there are great libraries out there to use to plunk them down in your application, or you can use google charts without doing much of anything. For example the below link will generate a QR code from google charts. Change the last part of the URL to encode anything (well anything short) you want. Http:/ chart.apis.google.com/chart? Or embed it as an image if you want to generate them dynamically:. You want to run a scavenger hunt with a bun...

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Brook Stevens: February 2010

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Sunday, February 14, 2010. There is a fair amount of software out there that comes close to what I want, dumpster. For unit testing and a myriad of tools ( papercut. Looked like a neat one but I never tried it having a mac and all) that will sit on a desktop and intercept email; but nothing that was suitable for a server used by multiple people. For free on source forge in the hopes that someone else finds it useful. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Although in my professional life I am the CTO at eSpendwise.

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Brook Stevens: August 2010

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Saturday, August 7, 2010. Nagios with check mk. Without encountering much trouble. I had a couple dependency issues (no apache) but was able to get everything through yum easily enough.as an aside yum has really made life easier; I remember the days where if you forgot to select gcc during the install you simply reformatted and started over because it was easier. Of the various add-ons for Nagios that do trending pnp4nagio. I then set out to investigate check mk. Cd check mk-1.1.2. Wget http:/ mathias-ke...

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Brook Stevens: July 2011

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Friday, July 29, 2011. Puppet managing differences for multiple environments. I have switched to using extlookup. For dealing with my different environments. The solution that I eventually landed on was to put all of the variables that are truly different (there were not a lot, in the end less than 5) between the environments into a single statement for example:. If $network = "network1" {. Nameservers = ['192.168.1.123']. Elsif $network = "network2" {. Nameservers = ['192.168.2.123']. I also created a f...

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Brook Stevens: August 2011

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Monday, August 29, 2011. Installing ant with puppet. Java and linux are not necessarily the best of bedfellows. Thats not exactly true as Java apps run great on linux, its more like Java packaging and linux packaging are not the best of bedfellows. Java apps and servers are not kept in the normal places that a linux person would like to see them in (and visa versa) and are generally not packaged as RPMs or debs or insert your favorite package manager here. Yum install rpm-build make gcc ruby-devel. And u...

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Brook Stevens: April 2010

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Monday, April 26, 2010. Gantt Project and Bugzilla "Integration" part 2 with gpath. Def formatter = new XmlNodePrinter(new PrintWriter(new File("test.xml") ). Here is the groovy script to update a gantt project. To your class-path, make sure you have groovy installed. And away you go. Again this is a rudimentary solution but.well read my previous post. Import groovy.sql.Sql. Def filename = "proj.gan" / file name of the source project plan. Parse the file so we can use gpath. Property we need to set. ...

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Brook Stevens: March 2012

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012. This is a follow up post to dealing with differences in different environments. Puppet has a function called extlookup. I wish I had a nice howto to plop down here, but really it took no time to setup and was trivial to setup and the default install options were what I wanted. I just hope it gets added to the best practice section of the puppet wiki at least for smaller networks where an ENC is not in place. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Brook Stevens: June 2011

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Sunday, June 12, 2011. Converting to Bazaar from CVS Take 2 (with some EC2 help). I decided to take another look at bzr and converting cvs after getting the cvsps-import to work. I got a bunch of advice from bzr experts that fast import is really what I wanted to be looking at when dealing with a large repository. Step 1 is to setup a large EC2 instance using the ubuntu Natty Narwhal kindly supplied by ubuntu. Next install the software that will be needed by the conversion. Sudo apt-get install bzr.

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Brook Stevens: March 2010

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Sunday, March 21, 2010. Today I had a chance to play with skipfish. Which is a web vulnerability scanner. On my machine running OSX 10.5 I had a couple things I needed to do to get it running. I had to install libidn using mac ports, modify the Makefile, copy the dictionary and then make everything:. Sudo port install libidn. Cp dictionaries/default.wl skipfish.wl. CFLAGS GEN = -Wall -funsigned-char -g -ggdb -D FORTIFY SOURCE=0. After typing make again Skipfish was compiled and working. Which will scan l...

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Brook Stevens: January 2011

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Sunday, January 9, 2011. Converting to Bazaar from CVS. I have been recently playing around with distributed version control systems. I switched my Mockemail. Project over to git and have been looking heavily into Bazaar. There are many pros and cons to all the various distributed version control systems (or DVCS) out there (bazaar, git, mercurial seem to be the big 3) that I won't go into; but I settled on trying to migrate a CVS project over to Bazaar in the end. Ok so this isn't included by default wi...