zeroasterisk blog – alan blount & friends
Posted in Adobe Connect on Jul 23rd, 2010
We’ve setup Connect to expire the FMSCore processes after 2 hours, but if someone is still connected to a recording, it will keep the old zombie FMSCore process until that person disconnects.
It often happens that doesn’t work – and there’s seemingly no garbage collection in place to clean up old FMSCore.
So we created a simple [...]
Posted in development, geek on May 7th, 2010
Everyone and their mom have been using Git and GitHub for a while, but I’m just breaking down and using it… I have been slow to adopt because SVN worked for me fine (until I had to merge branches) and I don’t like to pay for storage space. But I continue to be impressed by [...]
Posted in cakephp, development, php on Feb 18th, 2010
if you add a primary key which would turn an “insert” into an “update” within beforeSave() you’ll need to set $this->__exists = true;… the call to $this->exists(); happens in model.php before the callback to beforeSave().
Posted in geek on Feb 15th, 2010
Alan’s Google Profile, now updated with Buzz activity, searchable, and pulling content from various feeds, including flickr, facebook, twitter, etc…
If you don’t see this as “competition” for Facebook (et. al.) then you’re not seeing the same thing I am.
I personally love it, esp. the publicly searchable aspects and the integration into the gmail interface but [...]
Posted in geek on Feb 1st, 2010
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html
Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers. We’re also going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. As a result you may find that from March 1 key functionality within these [...]
Posted in development, geek, linux, php on Jan 13th, 2010
I’m a bit proud of myself on this one… I setup a simple, but clean and configurable, MySQL Master/Slave Replication Monitoring PHP Script:
http://code.google.com/p/php-mysql-master-slave-replication-monitor/ (docs)
It’s Open Source and free, I welcome comments, suggestions, and questions.
I think this will be quite useful for anyone who is setting up a pair of MySQL servers as master/slave and want [...]
I love this fanout script for running the same command on multiple servers, just in case you’re interested:
http://www.stearns.org/fanout/fanout
[root@199564-6 scripts# fanout "$SERVERS" "cp /root/.ssh/authorized_keys /home/user/.ssh/"
Starting root@db1
Starting root@db2
Starting root@nas
Starting root@www1
Starting root@www2
Starting root@www3
Fanout executing "cp /root/.ssh/authorized_keys /home/user/.ssh/"
Start time Wed Dec 23 23:45:35 EST 2009 , End time Wed Dec 23 23:45:47 EST 2009
==== As root on db1 ====
==== [...]
Posted in cakephp on Dec 2nd, 2009
I’ve been working with CakePHP for a few years now and am very happy with it. I’ve been working with the 1.2 version for a few months (since it went stable) and playing with the Auth and ACL core components.
I’ve decided that ACL is too complicated for most setups, and Auth is fine, but not [...]
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