Wow, I made it by my own blog today and realized I haven’t been around in quite some time. I’ve been quite busy working on a startup company – Blue Shoe Mobile Solutions. Check us out!
Also, since my last post I’ve had several apps go into the store. Check them out!
I’ll be back soon! Got a ton going on and more apps coming out daily. I’m now moving into the Android Universe as well, to port the above apps over. Feel free to contact me if you have any specific questions or inquiries at me@derekneely.com.
I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). I’m quite used to using MacFUSE to remotely mount (via SSH) development systems for ease of coding. However, I just noticed that MacFUSE now refuses to establish a connection to the remote server. So, here is a fix for just that.
1) Quit Macfusion
2) Open System Preferences and then open the MacFUSE pane. Check the “Show Beta Versions” box and click “Check For Updates”. Go ahead and update MacFUSE.
3) Open a terminal and copy and past the following:
rm /Applications/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/sshnodelay.so
Enjoy!
Fix provided from: Racker Hacker
After some reading of consolidation options for Apache logs, I ran across mod_log_sql (we are hating spread) which will take Apache logs and log them off to a MySQL database. Sounded great! We could then run scripts to go through and parse the values and run statistics on. Twas perfect for our needs. RIGHT!!!
At my company we run about 12 vhosts over about 5-6 load balanced web servers. All of them were configured to log to our loganalysis server which is a pretty beefy machine. The logging all in all worked well with a few major exceptions listed below.
1) I used the directive:
LogSQLRequestIgnore .gif .jpg .css .ico .png .js
This directive is supposed to be used to ignore any pages ending with that extension. This did not work at all and I had to create a script to actually delete those before analyzing the logs. Bummer but not that big of a deal.
2) While working with the server to optimize the database, there were various times when I would need to restart the MySQL service and a few times I needed to reboot the server. During these periods of time, the web servers were unable to log to the database which brought them to their knees. The inability of the module to handle a database outage gracefully was a major deal breaker for us. I feel this issue is a result of intense disk IO when the database is down. The server is logging to its Apache logs, the the backup SQL logs, and to the Apache error logs for every failed request. This becomes emense with thousands of requests per second. Should this server die or needing maintenance would have ultimately brought our company to a hault.
Long story short, we’re scrapping mod_log_sql and going with an NFS mount out to all the web services which we can then parse and run statistics on using some custom scripts and/or AWStats or Splunk.
DerekNeely.com needed an image gallery. Quick search result turned up Plogger. Thus far it’s been a really nice light-weight image gallery.
Not much there ATM but feel free to stop by! DerekNeely.com – Image Gallery
With my recent broken jaw, I’ve become a fan of smoothies. I’ve become a regular at Tropical Smoothie Cafe. I’m at the point where I’m just starting at the top and working my way down. Well, after 6 or so visits this weekend I decided tonight I need to learn how to make my own.
Round 1:
Found some frozen blackberries in the freezer (thanks buddy Dave). Tossed a little bit of ice, some of the blackberries, and some yogurt into the blender. Had a tough time getting it to blend at first, hence the broken spoon pictured below. I then realized you needed a ‘liquifier’. I only had OJ in the fridge so I tossed some of that in there. Smoothie whipped right up. I believe I used too much yogurt though.
Estimated Recipe:
~1/2-3/4 cups ice
~1-1.5 cups blackberries
~1/2 cup OJ
~1/2 cup yogurt (gonna try less next time)
Round 2:
Gave it another shot today and think I came up with a good one. I was making double recipe this time. One for the roomie.
2 bananas
9oz strawberries
2 cups pineapple juice
2 large tbsp. of low-fat yogurt
1 cup ice (add more for icier – obviously)
Round 3:
I think I have it. Well, this is just another recipe of one I’ve made but, it’s been the best thus far. Once again, I was making for 2 (~1 pint each – prob. a bit more).
2 bananas
1 cup blue berries
1.5 cups pineapple juice
1.5 cups ice
2 large tablespoons of low-fat yogurt
Round 4:
The best smoothie yet has been the strawberry, banana, chocolate smoothie. Holy hell its good. Recipe below. Made for 1.
1 banana
5 or so strawberries
1 cup milk
1 cup ice
2 heaping tablespoons of Nesquik (more or less to taste)
While working on a little Mac ScreenSaver/Locking work -around I found this little site for converting and image file to various icon formats:
iConvert
After a night out on the town with my buddy Dave, we headed across the street to hang with some of my neighbors. We were over for a while, primarly talking with Sheala and Kia while some of the home-boys (Moon, Tim, and 2 others) were playing craps on the sidewalk.
Everybody had been drinking, Dave was a little bit off his rocker. He accidentally tripped one of my neighbors – Moon -and sent him down the steps onto the sidewalk. Well, in my neighborhood you don’t get away with that (not even an accident). So, Moon had a little ‘talk’ with Dave where he gave him a nice smack. Dave went to the ground, but was honestly so drunk he didn’t even know what happened or remember it happening.
Well, I got Dave into the house and went back out to make my peace with the neighbors. After all it is my block. Well, everyone was still a little wound up and I was giving my apologies…”Sorry for my buddy, he’s a drunken fool, I’ll take care of…” BAM!!! I got sucker punched by one of the big dudes that was over hanging with us. Sent me to the ground and upon rising had blood all over the place. I took off into the house and got to the bathroom where I was spitting out blood. Looking in the mirror, the middle of my job was split in half.
As drunk as Dave was I got him to drive me up to MCV. I bolted in, let the lady know I had insurance, and they took me back pretty quick. They gave me some pain meds and after a few hours the oral surgeon wired the two sides of my jaw together with wire around teeth on each side. That held me over for a few days.
I had surgery on Tuesday where they lined me up nicely and put some titanium plates in my jaw to hold everything together. The doctor. (Dr. Greg Ness) did a bang up job with putting my jaw back to one piece.
So…I’m on a liquid diet for the next few weeks – 6 all together. I’ve been losing weight like crazy and have gotten quite creative with meals. Feel free to stop by the gallery and check out some of the pictures of it.
….to DerekNeely.com. Just a blog site of my own. Not much of a ‘blogger’ but just a central area for me to store all my notes and research. Hopefully it can be of some help to others as well.