Pair Programming[1] is a established practice in part of the software development world. In a culture of lone-rangers, the idea of two people working productively together to get *one* thing done still meets resistence. The tale is about me trying to peer with my Boss to work on a network routing problem. At all times [...]
Took my chance and moved our server Wealtheow from i386 to amd64 archs. A busy sunday it was. This step-by-step guide on debian i386 to amd64 conversion was really handy. I was in a hurry and needed clear and concise instructions. My only trouble with the procedure was on the last step. My initrd image [...]
If you run a multilingual wordpress site with wmpl you’ll probably need to customize your theme files. Adapting the basic Arthemia theme is covered on an article on wpml.org. Here you can find instructions to make Arthemia-Premium work with WPML. If this helped you can always If this helped, but not enough, you can try [...]
Sometimes Systems work is a lot like plumbing. You have that task that must get done no matter what, and you know you’ll be getting grimy in the proccess. Unpleasant as they are, this kind of jobs give quite a sense of accomplishment once done; people without dirty hands are wrong, aren’t they? Ldap authentication [...]
I like to keep current the version of puppet on visualtis; a smallish without no much overhead when rolling-up the updates. In the end nothing breaks badly if puppet isn’t working properly. For a few months I had no time to invest in puppet and I ended migrating three minor versions of puppet. Namely from [...]
A pythonista seeks new job and I think of gift economies on 12seconds.tv Via planet python I read of a pythonista and craftsman feed-up with software establishment, and turning away from professional software development; he wants Art and energy back in his code. A brave guy, not afraid of the GIL-Dragons. I know many people [...]
A short git hook (pre-commit) to check for css sanity before I commit changes to the git repo. Css validation done with the cssparse tool from css-utils (python). The idiom to get a list of staged git files and filter it is handy on other pre-commit scripts. for css in $(git diff-index –name-only –cached HEAD — | [...]
I find weird the way most traditional (non-web) business deal with web developers. Imagine yourself buying a piano with no idea on how to play it, just expecting the piano to do its magic without your intervention or knowledge; pianos don’t work that way, neither web sites. I’m in the planning phase of a joint [...]
Bootstraped a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with Lenny. I was surprised by the many candies hiding on the current Debian-Installer. In spite of the eternal and recurrent internal struggle each Debian release is way better than its predecesor; and I mean way better, not just up-to-date. The only pitfall on the installation was grub mishandling the Sas6 [...]
Last January a new company was born promising new tools for us working at IT infraestructure automation. The name of the tool is Chef; good luck looking for it on google, chef is a keyword as common as puppet. When i firs heard of chef i got a litle worried about the possible damages to [...]
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