Amazon Opsworks – Dependent on Monit
I recently converted a number Amazon Opsworks instances to be time based, so that they shut down at the end of the working day. After doing so, I kept...
Awk craziness: Processing log files
A while back I wrote an awk script to process a custom log file to work out how an application was performing over a period of time. The following...
Elastic Search Presentation
I’ve implemented a number of sites with Elastic Search and recently had a two-day spike to implement Elastic Search for Photobox’s backoffice systems. As a result I have since...
Requests per second from Apache logs
Whilst recently looking into usage of SSL, I needed to analyse some logs from apache to determine requests per second. Initially I wrote a quick bash script to do...
Hackday @ Everlution
At Everlution we did a hack day to help motivate developers and to get the team working together. We started at 8.30am and finished at 5pm. It was pretty...
apt-get unattended / non-interactive installation
I previously wrote about “Installing Java & MySQL – unattended/non-interactive installation”. Whilst using slack, I have been running apt-get during postinstall rather than preinstall. Files are transferred from slack...
PHP apache_note, Graphite & Logster for logging
A nice tip for logging data against apache logs within requests. Apache_note is a wrapper for Apache’s table_get and table_set. It edits the table of notes that exists during...
Vagrant – Automating PHP/MySQL Installation with bash/slack for continuous deployment
Vagrant is simply a wrapper around Virtualbox headless that allows for provisioning virtual machines with support for puppet, chef-solo, chef, and bash. This allows you to automate the deployment...
PHP5.3 autoload/class_exists fail
Every now and then I come across a problem with PHPs autoloading whereby class_exists fails to autoload classes. I’ve noticed this with a number of PHP versions, most recently...
Selenium
A little while ago, I did an internal presentation on selenium at Everlution. I’ve put this on slideshare, which can be found here. The key problem to entry is...