Software projects should have three environments: development, staging, and production. These environments should essentially be identical. In practice this isn’t always possible but we should try to get as close as possible. Every developer has a development environment for each of their computers. This means WebDeveloperA could have one development environment on her laptop and … [Read more…]
This weekend I made an Atari Punk Console out of some wood and PVC scraps. I wanted to make a portable player that could feed into a larger amplifier. I added a line out to the system for this purpose. The wood and PVC are glued together but the PVC to PVC connection is free. … [Read more…]
I set up this rack, it’s been a great learning experience.
This weekend I made an Atari Punk Console. I had seen Colin Cunningham’s video on Make Magazine and wanted to try it out myself. I looked online and found some simple plans and ordered the parts of Jameco. They came really quickly and I built this circuit. I used this picture to wire up the … [Read more…]
This week at work I had an interesting problem, I needed to bulk import many, many CSV files into our database. I wanted to do this in an automated way that would not lose any data. I came up with this idea and it worked out really well. Luckily the filenames of the comma separated … [Read more…]
I added 5 nodes to my Hadoop Cluster and learned a lot more along the way. I decided to update the whole fleet to Hadoop 1.02 and fix a few other configuration items with the cluster. On the base 64-bit headless server install for Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS I included the Open SSH server package. From … [Read more…]
I spend the last two days building a Hadoop cluster at work. Here are the steps you could go through to make your own cluster. This cluster uses: A fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit Server (with only the OpenSSH package included on the install) Apache Hadoop 0.20.203.0 rc1 (the current stable version as … [Read more…]
We made a nice soup this week that we want to make again soon. It was really easy and healthy. 2 quarts vegetable broth 1 cup uncooked barley 2 large carrots, chopped medium celery, chopped 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes with juice 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained 1 onion, chopped 3 bay … [Read more…]
This time I had a better camera mount. Same type of footage but at a better angle.
Sarah beat Brian and me up at 24 hour fitness with this work. We did 3 sets, 45 seconds on with a 15 second break in between each exercise. Squats with Medicine Ball Russian Twists Kettle Bell Swings Push Ups Lunges