My company signed a contract for a provider that uses TZO as their DNS provider. Now I have used TZO before (circa 2006-2007) and although their interface was archaic and there was no API, I accepted it because I was told they were reliable. As it happens, the service was fantastic and they are very …
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I am in the middle of building out a group of about 25 machines in a data center for my company. I hadn’t really dove into it on a micro level until a few days ago. I was moving around on individual machines that others were working on. When I had gotten to one of …
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I recently had to setup daemontools on a CentOS system. I had set it up before but it had been a while. So I Google’d around and found very little and what little I did find wasn’t very helpful. So here is a quick and dirty on setting up daemontools. I even included the CentOS …
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I use Bash one liners a lot. I think they are an important part of any programmers and sysadmins toolkit. If you can’t write a bash one liner, even a simple iterator, then you really need to learn. I promise it will make your life infinitely more pleasant. Frequently I find myself writing things that …
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On the same day that Goodmail removed Yahoo! from its pool, it added the vastness of Microsoft domains. These domains include hotmail.com, live.* and msn.com. The addition of Microsoft to the Goodmail community is a good thing because it means that Microsoft is starting to play ball in the email community. However it comes as …
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So as of today, Yahoo! will no longer be accepting Goodmail imprinted messages. There is currently no press release from Goodmail, but I am sure one will be forthcoming. The latest reference to the on goings is listed here in one of their recent blog posts. Goodmail claims that they are doing everything possible to …
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The more I branch out my interests (or skill sets), the more I find myself joining communities. I am a part of Yelp (food/restaurants), StackOverflow (programming questions), Codaset (social coding), Facebook, LinkedIn (professional networking), Disqus (blog comment system), and the list goes on and on for many of my interests. There are lots of communities …
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I am all about community and people participating in a community. Its the way social media succeeds. But there are non-social media communities out there too (yes I know that’s shocking). I was recently asked to participate in a beta testing for Peer Tester. I think this is an absolutely fantastic idea. Developers helping other …
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The best way to rethink things is to be in the shoes of your users. Use your app how they use your app. Try to take a fresh look at your application like you’ve never seen it before. Would you change the location of the menu/navigation? Would you change the actual menus/navigation? Would you add …
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When you are using a framework, they typically set your VARCHAR size automatically to 255. This is normally fine since you are letting the framework abstract you away from most of the SQL. But if you interact with your SQL, there is a way to get a decent speed increase on your SELECTs and ORDER …
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