My latest project: Screenly
One of the most hyped pieces of hardware in recent time is the Raspberry Pi. It is hyped for a very good reason. For $35 you get a fully functioning Linux-computer which is about …
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A permanent fix for Apple's "play/pause"-hijacking (and use Spotify)
I hate iTunes with passion. It’s bloated and annoying. However, since it is a major revenue stream for Apple, they try hard to push it into your face as often as possible. Since I …
Join me at NoSQL Roadshow in Basel!
If you have nothing booked for August 30th, I suggest you mark it ‘busy’ in your calendar, as that’s the date for NoSQL Road Show in Basel, Switzerland. At the event, I will be …
Access control in Bottle (by IP)
If you haven’t heard of Bottle, it’s a lightweight web framework for Python. It is perfect if you have a small project that requires a web interface, but you don’t want to go all …
Munin-plugin for Zendesk
In recent time, I’ve really started to appreciate Munin. I’ve deployed Munin in multiple architectures already, and I still get impressed every time by how easy it is to setup. I …
New project: csconnect.py
In the last few years, we‘ve spent a lot of time migrating away from all our physical servers and into the cloud. This has been a very interesting task, that presented its own set …
Deploying FreeBSD's Ports to a large number of nodes
Some time ago, I posted a question on Serverfault about how people managed and deployed ports in a large environment. Despite a fair number of comment, nobody seemed to really have …
Monitor Memcached with Munin (on Ubuntu)
Let me first admit that I am new to Munin. I’ve played around with most monitoring tool, but never Munin for some reason. I really don’t know why, since it appears to be a great …
I'm interviewed by City Network
This week I was interviewed (Swedish) by the Swedish hosting provider City Network for their blog. In the article I talk about the background of WireLoad and a bit about our …
How to quickly slice wallpapers for a dual-screen setup
In this day and age, many people use multi screens in their setup. I’m one of those people. One thing that really bugs me in OS X however, is that you cannot set one wallpaper to …
The 'pg_ha' project has moved to Github
I recently posted a rather lengthy article titled “High availability with PostgreSQL, PGPool-II and FreeBSD.” The article was a bi-product of setting this up and the blog-post was …
Comparing MongoDB write-performance on CentOS, FreeBSD and Ubuntu
Recently I wrote a post titled ‘Notes on MongoDB, GridFS, sharding and deploying in the cloud.’ I talked about various aspects of running MongoDB and how to scale it. One thing we …