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  • Local DNS Resolution Mystery ... RESOLVED !!

    I’d been having trouble getting /etc/hosts to consistently resolve a DNS entry on OS X in all the ways that are are important to me.

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  • Filling in the Gaps after Installing a Binary Ruby with rvm

    When we stop building Ruby from source every time, we also stop auto-installing the binary dependencies.

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  • A Weekend of Craft, Theatre, and Technical Meltdowns

    A rather odd mix of side-projects and Ops-related chaos.

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  • Random Problem in Your Cloud-hosted App? Try a New Instance!

    Really, that’s it. That’s my useful tip. Everything else is just me telling you a story about it.

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  • Remote Scripting for AWS

    Ruby provides some nice features for when you’re building hand-rolled health checking tools. And there are some sshd tricks to be played, too.

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  • Easy delivery with mstmp and GMail

    I really don’t feel like setting up a full-fledged MTA to just do basic forwarding. Perhaps this is a job for an SMTP relay.

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  • Wordpress and PmWiki under nginx

    nginx has been pleasantly stable – the only time it has gone down is when I misconfigured it into infinte HTTP 302 redirects, and even then it took several hours of user activity to knock it over.

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  • Remote Debugging using JConsole, JMX and SSH Tunnels

    Because Tomcat keeps dying after about 36 hours. So, I’m gonna enable debugging and JMX remoting so that I can put JConsole to work.

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  • logrotate Mac OS Launch Daemon with Legacy MacPort

    Because the logs don’t clean themselves up. So of course I went looking for cron, and in the process, an OS X lesson was learned.

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