You could call it a blog
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My vundle - vim extentions
16 July 2015
I use vim as my editor, I am far from a leet user but am comfortable with it and find it speeds up my development compared to other editors I have tried.
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Capture and print HTTP request
14 April 2015
So I wanted to see what this app was exporting (http request wise), so I created the following Rack app to listen on a given port, then I could capture and print what the app was posting
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Use sshuttle to create a VPN
26 March 2015
So I was running some end2end tests of a our software stack, part of which involved using Selenium to register a user. The registeration process involved being sent an email that contained a “confirmation” link.
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Port forward locally
12 March 2015
So I was trying to test out a web service deep inside a private network which I had to create a number of SSH tunnels to access.
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A REPL a Rails app
2 February 2015
I wanted a tool to do little tricks within MyApp, they were abit beond rake tasks, so I thought i’d give writting a custom REPL a do.
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Chef and Vagrant sitting in a tree
23 January 2015
Chef and Vagrant - Getting started
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Docker on my VPS
21 January 2015
So I got fed up with Heart Internet, they do not rock my world, so looked around and seeing as ByteMark sponser alot of FLOSS stuff I thought I’d give’m a try. I was tempted by DigitalOcean as they are so cheap, but it would make me feel like a sell-out.
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Move sidekiq jobs from one queue to another
30 September 2014
We had a problem the other day that resulted in many jobs getting put into the default queue for sidekiq workers to process, this held up other more important jobs.
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Fixed width file processing with awk
1 May 2014
Sadly some old skool systems are still in use and therefore I get the odd fixed width file to deal with.
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CSV streight out of Postgres
4 March 2014
Postgres is my favorite SQL database, fast, advanced, GPL, whats not to love!?