I recently deployed a website called TriviaStats.com for the world’s largest trivia contested. Each year, 90FM in Stevens Point (the UW-Stevens Point radio station) hosts an over the radio trivia contest. Teams listen to 8 questions an hour and call Continue reading
The Library of Congress and U.S. Copyright Office recently decided that unlocking your phone is will now be against the law. Previous to this decision, it was legal under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to unlock a phone so that Continue reading
After one of my latest updates to SwoopSrch.com, all the sudden requests were taking up to 11 seconds. Swoop works by making a set of all the apartments that meet at least one criteria the user types in (usually thousands), Continue reading
All servers should have their configuration saved into version control somewhere. Many people use Puppet or Chef to manage their configuration. That is a little more power than I need for a few home servers, so I use git. I’m Continue reading
I write a lot of Python projects and store them all in Git version control. Each time, I find myself rewriting the .gitignore file, so my repositories aren’t cluttered with .pyc files, temporary files, files from pip/virtualenv, and others. So Continue reading
So you have a service running in an LXC container behind a bridge, and you need ports forwarded for that service. In this case, we’ll use Minecraft as an example, which runs on port 25565. Our container’s IP is 10.0.3.116.
I am working on setting up my own cloud servers using Linux Containers (LXC). These cloud containers allow me to build one image, replicated it, configure it, and have a new server online in seconds. I was having trouble getting Continue reading
If you have a scalable infrastructure on Amazon, you are probably using Elastic Load Balancers on Amazon’s AWS to manage mulitple EC2 instances. Scaling by hand is soooooo last decade! We have added 3 scripts to our servers to allow Continue reading
If you haven’t checked out Django’s logging facilities, do check them out. They are invaluable! One place the Django test server fails at is passing print statements to the console. Most production servers aren’t going to make print output available Continue reading
With larger screens and more powerful graphics processors, tablet computers have taken the industry by storm. No longer is Apple the only contender. Manufacturers have stepped up, creating multiple Android tablets, even apps with BlackBerry have entered the market with Continue reading
