To familiarize ourselves with all the technologies we will be using day-to-day, we wanted to create an application using as many of them as possible as an exercise. In this post we are going to outline the steps to recreate that application.
This blog was running on WordPress on a dedicated Ubuntu 14.04 VM host. When I tried to update the host to Ubuntu 16.04, I broke WordPress. Rather than trying to… Read more »
The VMWare Clarity Design System documentation is a bit vague about how modal dialogs should be handled. The examples presented are not really appropriate for real-world applications, where dialogs need… Read more »
I was looking for a simple way to use Let’s Encrypt to enable https for a web site and I found a Docker image nmarus/docker-haproxy-certbot which met my needs. Remember, Let’s Encrypt… Read more »
We’ve been using the free ESXi ghettoVCB backup utility for the last 5 years to backup about 150 VMs daily without a glitch. ghettoVCB snapshots the VM, copies away the… Read more »
Borg backup (https://github.com/borgbackup) is an open source backup tool which, in addition to the usual backup features like strong client-side encryption and compression, has several important characteristics which make it… Read more »
I’ve now had the AmplifiHD at home for two months – during that time it has worked perfectly – never had to intervene, no downtime, no problems whatsoever.
We’ve been recently running rest APIs on active-active server pairs (docker containers running on pairs of VMs on separate hosts) with postgres-BDR (multi-master bidirectional replication) for fault-tolerant storage and a pair of fault-tolerant HAProxy instances for incoming… Read more »
We live in an old house, on three levels. Its always been a challenge to achieve consistent wifi coverage throughout the house. We neglected to install ethernet cabling when we… Read more »