New design
In recent news, this site got a new design, I thought I could make the content more readable and accessible, so I killed my old templates and style sheets and…
Adding Supr urls to your site
Over the last couple months I had a chance to help create a great new product for Stumbleupon. lets create short urls, publish directly to Facebook and Twitter and gives…
Hbase fun
For the last couple weeks I’ve been working pretty heavily with Hbase. It decidedly has different usage patterns then Mysql, but since I don’t often get to use anything relational…
Blog fixing
Just realized enscript isn’t installed on my server anymore so all my posts with highlighted code examples were broken. Sorry about that, fixed now. Source: Joshua Eichorn
Webthumb Status Update
There was an Webthumb outage yesterday, the main server Kernel Panic’d and didn’t reboot properly. DNS was switched to the backup server, and for most users there was no noticable…
Webthumb Updates
I haven’t been actively blogging as of late, this is not likely to change, but here is some quick Webthumb news. The PHP apiwrapper has been updated, there have been…
WebThumb is back up
Once the dns change fully propagates Webthumb will be back up and fully running. If you had a different apikey on the backup instance you will want to switch back…
Its Alive
My blog and the rest of my sites are back up again, running on new hardware. The 2nd backup server/thumbnail processor is still waiting on some heat sinks before it…
Swift around the web
To get started with messing around with Swift, IBM have created a Swift Sandbox on the web, so you can run Swift on Linux within a browser to play with…
An Ansible playbook for Swift
I've been learning Swift recently and now that it's Open Source, I'm looking at using it on my Linux server. Firstly however, I wanted to run it within a Vagrant…