You could call it a blog

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • CSV streight out of Postgres
    4 March 2014

    Postgres is my favorite SQL database, fast, advanced, GPL, whats not to love!?

  • Killing orphans
    31 January 2014

    No, this post it not about being really nasty and killing some poor parentless children, it is about deleting database records that referer to other records that nolonger exist… anyway, to the point..

  • See a files git history in vim
    21 January 2014

    Discovered an awesome vim plugin today, it is called git-time-lapse

  • Clean your photos before you upload
    8 January 2014

    As you probably know digital photos contain meta data about when/where/what/etc took the snap.

  • Turn off login for a linux machine
    6 January 2014

    Sometimes I want a linux machine to bootup into a command prompt (no user and password required).

  • Factory Girl
    11 December 2013

    yo!,

  • Reminder emails from Rails with SideKiq
    10 September 2013

    Pre-text