Cliff’s blog

I’ve tried many other engines (SimplBlog, BBlog, S9y, Quills, Plone) and now here I am running on Word Press. I’m not a fan of  Word Press but it does have the advantage of having a very active community and many plugins that provide the functionality that I would otherwise have to build myself. Hopefully having [...]

Okay so I got my Pre and everyone has been asking me what I think about it. The short answer is “I like it”. Those who know me would suspect that there’s much more to it than just that. So here is the skinny…. Continue r…

On FreeBSD systems when you install Apache 2.x and the ssl module you’ll see an entry in the httpd.conf that says:

LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so

As well as other lines and you may be wondering “h…

I was hanging out in #lua on freenode and someone had mentioned a performance comparison of several languages on some site using a fractal. Lua’s numbers looked really good. Yes Python kicks the crap out of Perl and Ruby. …

This is a quick script I wrote to manage the replication of my NS records from the primary to the secondary server(s).  You’ll first need to setup the keys for it to work and it runs as a cron task.  Continue reading “T…

Well, I’m finally getting around to putting my 30 or so servers on version control. It’s a slight pain in the add but well worth it. In the past I’d made use of rsnapshot which I generally liked. This go-round however, I’…

Sputnik is a CMS that behaves as a wiki (out of the box) and has a pretty cool back end storage mechanism that supports databases, flat files, and git repositories. By using git I can work “offline” on a copy of the sites …

This is the script I use to manage my instances of xavante which power my sputnik instances. I should really clean it up but I’m frying bigger fishermen at the moment.
Continue reading “sputnik + xavante startup with ru…

It’s taken me a while to settle on what software I should use to power this site. I’m more of Form and Function type of guy. I like to have control over the say things are stored and more options for content than “new pos…

Okay new site/blog. I’m really not into “blogging” but we’ll give this a go.