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Puppet Debugging: --noop

2 months ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
I do more and more Puppet, and I really like it. It’s a simple way to declare the desired state of the world. As I do more and more with Puppet, I...

Scala Case Classes and State Machines Using Akka Actors

3 months ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
At Seevibes we use the Twitter Streaming API to harvest what people say about television shows. The Twitter Streaming API docs state that: Upon a change...

Scala Hackaton and SQL Workshop Wrap Up

3 months ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
A great time was had by all! Seriously, the Scala workshop was very cool. The actor model was new to almost all attendants and needed some explaining. Looking...

Quick Puppet Tip

4 months ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
While testing my Puppet recipes, I usually boot a new instance then apply configuration manually. I have a base configuration, which is extended with other...

Needium Joins Seevibes for Beer

4 months ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
I just learned this morning that Needium will join Seevibes in sponsoring the beer at the Scala Hackaton and SQL Workshop. Both events are on February 2nd...

Announcing Scala and SQL Event on February 2nd in Montreal

4 months ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
I would like to invite you to attend one or two events on February 2nd: Analyzing Twitter Social Data using Scala and Akka Actors and Social Media Metrics...

Daemontools Best Practices

8 months ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
I sometimes have to do sysadmin work, such as when I’m the sole technical person on a probject. When I need to keep a service running, I usually turn...

Running ScalaTest Tests Under IntelliJ IDEA

9 months ago by pogodan on A Single Programmer's Blog.
I had lots of difficulties running my tests under IDEA. The exact error message was: Error running All Tests:Not found suite class. Where All Tests was...

Cliaws 1.2.2: put correctly now...

over 3 years ago by francois on A Single Programmer's Blog.
Today sees a new release of Cliaws. This is a simple library to interact with S3 (and other services) through the command-line. This library is very similar...

Catastrophic Database Crash: Oh no!

over 3 years ago by francois on A Single Programmer's Blog.
Ouch! That hurts! Thurdsay (yesterday) I finished setting up new DB instances for XLsuite. All was well, and the servers performed admirably well for...