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Send events to Zenoss from scripts
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
Ruby, Rails, and Gems: Getting Started
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
More efficient HTML editing in vim
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
Printing tabular data attractively in Python
Have you ever looked for a tool several times, not found what you wanted, then one fine day discover exactly what you were looking for by accident? I had just such an experience… Not too infrequently in command line Python … Continue reading
Script to find longest running events in log files
While I have found the logging format described in this post to be useful in my scripts, once you get past a few lines, it gets hard to track what took the longest. I wanted to be able to see … Continue reading







