A while ago I started hacking on Screenly, a digital signage solution for the Raspberry Pi. It has been a huge success with a lot of traction from the Raspberry Pi community. The open source edition of Screenly (a.k.a. Screenly OSE) is an excellent tool if you want to setup a single sign. All you need is a Raspberry Pi ($35), some cables, and a monitor. You …
gSocial is a conference for Google Apps resellers and ISVs. I attended the event last year, and I was really impressed. I’m back for the conference this year, but I will aslo be giving a talk. My talk will be on the topic of email migration and what we’ve learned over the years working with YippieMove. The event also happens to have great timing, since we …
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by SCU‘s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE). Apparently I was mentioned in Santa Clara Magazine about being featured on TechCrunch. CIE wanted me to write an article about my background and my experience as an entrepreneur. I was happy to share that with them, and the article went live today.
A few months back I wrote csconnect to make it easier for myself to logon to our Cloud Sigma-nodes. It’s a pretty simple application. All it does is to poll Cloud Sigma’s API and lookup the IPs for the node(s) specified. Yet, since this was one of the first Python-programs I ever wrote (beyond Hello World), the state of the code was pretty terrible. Last …
I love Munin. It’s a great monitoring tool, quick to set up, and doesn’t come with too many bloated requirements. It’s also very flexible and easy to write plugins for. On Ubuntu, Munin comes with most (non-custom) plugins I use. Unfortunately, the Nginx-plugins (nginx_status and nginx_request) are incorrectly documented. In the header of the plugins, one …
I’m not sure if I’m the only one having issues with Time Machine, but it has been completely broken for me since I upgraded to Mountain Lion. As you can see above, Time Machine basically freezes and reports outrageous ETA statistic. What is strange is that I did a fresh install. I do have FileVault2 activated on both the Time Machine-drive (which is brand …
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 the size of a deck of cards. While there have been plenty of micro-computers around in the past, none at this extremely low price point. The Raspberry Pi is simply any DIY’ers wet …
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 started using Spotify a few years back, I don’t think I’ve used iTunes to play music once (only to upgrade iOS-devices before the over-the-air-updates came out). As long as you …
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 giving a presentation about MongoDB titled “MongoDB’s Replica Sets – Painless scaling and High Availability (HA).” As the title implies, it is a talk about MongoDB’s Replica Sets. I …