tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182752172012-03-14T02:15:26.556-04:00cyberRodentcause there's alot of stuff to remembercyberRodenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17110239028106383862noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18275217.post-48254671193287011592012-02-25T11:37:00.001-05:002012-02-25T11:38:07.301-05:00My Beef with zshI'm trying out tumblr and wrote a post over there about my beef with zsh. Check it out: http://cyberrodent.tumblr.com/
zsh is cool and all, and lots of people seem to really like it. I have one main beef with it over bash and its something that I use multiple times a day. This would't be such a big deal if so many people say that zsh had better completion.
my beef is about getting the lastKolberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811199932367262036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18275217.post-85220150234763458572012-02-21T16:04:00.011-05:002012-02-22T00:50:17.908-05:00Quick fix for low latency ssh to my ubuntu boxI have ubuntu running on an old T60 Thinkpad at home. I've noticed that there is a serious lag when ssh-ing to that machine on my local network. For a while I wrote this off since it was an older and slower servers (dual 1.6ghz Centrino 2gigs of RAM) but after trying to work over ssh for I while I got so frustrated by the slow response to typing commands that I decided to google around to see Kolberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811199932367262036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18275217.post-51296789074699429462011-09-23T09:50:00.001-04:002012-02-21T18:12:26.878-05:00Sharding a Database: Collected ReadingsI need to learn a lot about database sharding so I'm collecting here a bunch of things to read. Once I read them hopefully I'll come back and comment on them as well.
High Scalability: An Overview. Has what seem to be lots of good links. Mid 2009: http://highscalability.com/unorthodox-approach-database-design-coming-shard
Flickr Architecture: http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture
Kolberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811199932367262036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18275217.post-53685913226726603262011-08-26T14:21:00.016-04:002011-08-27T00:15:03.230-04:00JenkinsI recently started tinkering with Jenkins CI - its designed for use as a continuous integration system but also can be used to monitor external cron jobs. At work we've got lots of cron jobs that keep things moving and prior to life with Jenkins we would just get a ton of emails with the status of those jobs. Invariably those emails beget an inbox rule which shuttles all those emails into a Kolberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811199932367262036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18275217.post-15466964582258242272011-08-13T01:46:00.020-04:002011-08-27T00:15:33.828-04:00PHPUnit and SugarCRMI recently had to write up a script to do some automated processing on our SugarCRM Opportunities and I took it as an opportunity (pun intended) to write up some PHPUnit Tests for my code.
There are some challenges in working with SugarCRM if you are trying to get it do other things than just be a web-based CRM. To be able to run scripts using SugarCRM's API you need to deal with a few thingsKolberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14811199932367262036noreply@blogger.com0