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About two years ago I started working on a project called Red iGone together with a friend and we started the company Devify. The objective of the first project was simple — we …

I’ve already posted about the fact that we’ve released a massive update to YippieMove. Today the legendary Silicon Valley-blog TechCrunch covered this in form of an interview with …

A large part of last year spent working on a major update to YippieMove. The new YippieMove is a complete redesign, from the bottom-up. That means new logo, new user interface and …

We‘ve been using MongoDB in production for about six months with YippieMove. It’s been an interesting experience and we’ve learned a lot. Contrary to many MongoDB deployments, we …

I’m a coffee junkie. Like many of my fellow geeks, I consume way more than the average person. On a normal day, I drink somewhere between 5-10 cups perhaps. How much is that in …

In the previous post, I benchmarked three different virtual network drivers under FreeBSD. The clear winner was, perhaps not very surprisingly, the VirtIO network driver. In this …

With the launch of FreeBSD 9, I was curious to learn how the VirtIO driver performed. I’ve seen a significant boost in disk performance, but how about the network driver? Luckily, …

Some time ago, I wrote about how to use Virtio with FreeBSD 8.2. As I pointed out in the article, the performance was not nearly as good in FreeBSD 8.2 as it was in 9.0-RC1. Hence …

You’ve probably already noticed that I’ve used ZoneMinder a bit. I published a few blog-posts on how to set up ZoneMinder, and even posted full virtual appliance for ZoneMinder. …

I’ve been using MongoDB now for some time in production. It’s great, and I really love how easy it is to set up and scale with replica sets etc. There is one thing that bugs me …

Yesterday I decided that it’s about time to learn Puppet. I’ve had my eye on both Puppet and Chef for some time now. Yesterday after reading this Quora-thread and this blog-post, I …

It’s always fun when magazines ask you for your advise. In the December-issue of Computerworld, I was interviewed by Bob Scheier in the cover story and talked about how to create …