Monthly Archives: May 2009

Feed now updating again

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

If you follow this blog’s feed, you might have thought I hadn’t written a post for a while. As it turns out, the time it was taking my server to respond when Feedburner asked for recent items was greater than … Continue reading →

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Rails on Ubuntu

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

[EDIT, 2009-12-20]: For some time I steered away from installing Rails via APT on Ubuntu systems. I ran into a number of annoyances early on trying to get various bits of Ruby, Rails, libraries, and others installed and working together … Continue reading →

Posted in RubyOnRails | Tagged Programming, Ruby, RubyOnRails | 1 Comment

Send events to Zenoss from scripts

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

Working at Zenoss the company, our IT group uses Zenoss the application to monitor our infrastructure. Initially, we setup the needed monitoring for various resources, added thresholds and received email alerts if there were problems. That was all well and … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Programming, Python, sysadmin, Zenoss | 7 Comments

Ruby, Rails, and Gems: Getting Started

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

I recently started learning Ruby (mostly to flesh out my programming knowledge) and since one of the main self-detected shortcomings in my programming knowledge and skillset is web frameworks and web programming, I decided to give Ruby on Rails a … Continue reading →

Posted in CLI, Ruby | Tagged gem, Programming, Rails, Ruby | 3 Comments

More efficient HTML editing in vim

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

When I’m writing HTML and CSS, being forced to type out repetitive and fixed syntax, as well as remembering the particularities of the syntax and its formatting, makes me rather unhappy. Not to mention less productive. Let’s fix that. HTML … Continue reading →