Tue, Feb 17, 2015
ops
I’ve finally switched the content generation system that backs this blog over to hugo.
I had been using webby until it stopped working due to changes in ruby and it’s dependencies.
The conversion was a bit involved as hugo’s date parsing is a bit strict and the urls it generates include a trailing slash. A judicious application of sed resolved most of the issues.
Webby provided a bit more out of the box as it included deployment and asset management, but Hugo is:
- Maintained
- Fast
- Written in go which is my current favorite language
Hopefully being able to publish will entice me to resume writing regularly.
Sat, Nov 6, 2010
dev
ops
I’ve been experimenting with ejabberd as an xmpp server and so far it’s been great with one glaring caveat. When I attempted to
cluster multiple nodes using odbc authentication I encountered an error on the non-master nodes along these lines:
E(<0.38.0>:ejabberd_rdbms:67) : Start of supervisor 'ejabberd_odbc_sup_jabber.taco' failed:
{error,{{'EXIT',{badarg,[{ets,delete,[sql_pool,"xmpp.taco.com"]},
A quick google returned no major help. It seems that the normal cluster setup procedure does not create/copy a required table, the sql_pool table.
To fix this you need to start the erlang repl and run: mnesia:add_table_copy(sql_pool, node(), ram_copies).
After that’s complete, odbc should start and the node should be fully functional. Good luck, ymmv.
Helpful clustering links:
It’s worth noting that nuking the database directory seems to be equivalent to mnesia:delete_schema([node()]).
Thu, Mar 4, 2010
dev
I recently spoke at the Fairfield/Westchester Dot Net User Group about git. The slides from my talk entitled “Why Git?”
have been posted on slideshare.
Sun, Mar 1, 2009
ops
I recently was lucky enough to receive a nice new 1tb external drive. I like to format my drives hfs plus when I know only macs will be using them. Unfortunately when using DiskUtility to format the drive I ran into an unspecified error. When I tried to format it using the command line tools I got the following:
newfs_hfs: /dev/rdisk1s1: partition size not a multiple of 4K.
Apparently you need to make sure that the partition map uses the newer guid formatting (it’s available as an option in DiskUtility). Once I re-partitioned the drive (I had to switch partition types 1 -> 2 -> 1) everything worked fine.
