DevOps

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Seth's Blog: Competing with the singleminded

When you have someone who is willing to accomplish A without worrying about B and C, they will almost always defeat you in accomplishing A. Online, of course, this often leads to doom, since there are many organizations that are willing to get big at the expense of revenue, or writers willing to be noticed […]

"Failure is always an option."

Great video from MythBuster’s Adam Savage on the topic of failure. I’d embed it, but WP is being wonky about the code. I think the story on the film school set was very poignant. Sometimes you just have to realize that there’s nothing you can do for a failure but learn from it.

Encrypted MySQL connections (for client and replication)

There are four basic things you need to do when attempting to set up encrypted MySQL connections. Make sure your MySQL installation is configured with SSL. Create a set of certificates for your master, your slave, and your client(s). Configure your master and slave my.cnf with the correct ssl-* options. Configure the replication with the […]

Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Leatherman Charge ALX

Many multi-tools seem to be a flimsy sampling of little knick-knacks. We’ve seen different versions for ages, but they rely on a simple straight-edged pocket knife to do most of the real work. However, Leatherman’s interesting Charge ALX model is a little different. It does away with many of the old issues multi-tools faced, like […]

YQL: INSERT INTO internet Yahoo Developer Network Blog

The Yahoo Query Language lets you query, filter, and join data across any web data source or service on the web. Using our YQL web service, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint. YQL uses a SQL-like language because it is a familiar and intuitive method for developers to […]

Seth's Blog: Gotcha!

My rule of thumb is this: every person you turn away because your product or service isn’t right for them turns into three great customers down the road. Every bad sale costs you five. Seth’s Blog: Gotcha!. Being upfront with your customers … what a novel idea!  We have to remember that we’re a service […]

"Loss of data has serious consequences for German electronic health card" … Oops.

Test runs with Germany’s first-generation electronic health cards and doctors’ “health professional cards” have suffered a serious setback. After the failure of a hardware security module HSM holding the private keys for the root Certificate Authority root CA for the first-generation cards, it emerged that the data had not been backed up. Consequently, if additional […]

10 Business Lessons I Learned from Playing Dungeons & Dragons | JavaWorld's Daily Brew

Came across this in one of my blogfeeds today: 10 Business Lessons I Learned from Playing Dungeons & Dragons | JavaWorld’s Daily Brew.  Funny and interesting look at how actions in a game are translatable to real-world business events. One spell, used well, can be more powerful than an entire book full of spells. I […]

Query partially completed on the master (error on master: 1053)

So, I walked into the office this morning to the following lovely alert from our MySQL Enterprise Monitor installation (MEM) which, thankfully, was working again after I had to rebuild it last week. Server: seawasp:3306 Time: 2009-07-08 01:33:28 GMT Advisor: Replication – Slave Has Experienced A Replication Error Problem Description When a slave receives updates […]

So, some Solaris updates

Some minor updates on the Solaris/AD front. Alex and I have opened tickets with both Microsoft and Sun regarding the problems we’re seeing with VLV support between Solaris and Active Directory. Based on conversations and emails with both companies, we don’t think it’s VLV that’s really broken. Along with VLV, it appears you have to/should […]