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Comment on Just manage it for me by The Technician | Gmail actually gets something really wrong.

The Technician | Gmail actually gets something really wrong. — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:19:44 +0000

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Comment on Sandboxes by The Technician | MySQL Slave Delay and Maatkit

The Technician | MySQL Slave Delay and Maatkit — Mon, 03 May 2010 04:11:11 +0000

[...] sandbox environments, a consistent slave delay is a great way to reproduce race conditions. In fact, running slave delay [...]

Comment on Crisis MO by The Technician | Sandboxes

The Technician | Sandboxes — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:20:25 +0000

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Comment on A tool to DRY off by Ira Baxter

Ira Baxter — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:01:55 +0000

AFAICT, Bergmann’s CPD only finds bits of code that consist of source lines that are exactly the same. Running it on Joomla produces something like 1% detected clones.

See CloneDR at http://www.semanticdesigns.com/Products/Clone/PHPCloneDR.html for a copy-paste detector that works on huge code bases, and detects clones that are copy-paste-*edit*, even if the variables are renamed, the code is reformatted, and/or comments are changed/inserted/deleted. Running this Joomla finds that the code is 15% made of clones.

Comment on The Technician, now on a Cloud Server by Angela Bartels

Angela Bartels — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:42:14 +0000

Hello,

Great to see you are now on The Rackspace Cloud, welcome! I wanted to mention that we do offer DNS support and would like to know more of what you are requiring as we’d like to help. Send me an email when you have a chance.

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Comment on Explain your code by The Technician | What’s in a Name?

The Technician | What’s in a Name? — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:57:36 +0000

[...] will give devs more time to focus on important stuff. Like being able to articulate the thought process behind code. Categories : Development Web Dev Teams [...]

Comment on Run cron more than once a minute by Daniel Smedegaard Buus

Daniel Smedegaard Buus — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:52:27 +0000

Alberto’s approach doesn’t seem to work, most likely because the crontab isn’t a script but a configuration file.

However, you don’t need to put the sleep command inside your script, you can simply do:

# m h dom mon dow command
*/1 * * * * echo “On the minute” >> /tmp/out.txt
*/1 * * * * sleep 15s && echo “15s later” >> /tmp/out.txt
*/1 * * * * sleep 30s && echo “30s later” >> /tmp/out.txt
*/1 * * * * sleep 45s && echo “45s later” >> /tmp/out.txt

And then, of course, just replace the echo command with your actual script

Comment on Save MySQL by Shantanu Oak

Shantanu Oak — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:10:36 +0000

Thanks for the code.
But I found a similar (and easier) code here…
http://anothersysadmin.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/kill-every-mysql-select-older-than-x-seconds/

Comment on Explain your code by Japh

Japh — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:02:46 +0000

Interesting… I could definitely tell you what I think of my own code. Most of the time, it’s a good indication of where I’m at at that moment.

Nice post

Comment on Crisis MO by The Technician | Architecture will Save You

The Technician | Architecture will Save You — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:49:31 +0000

[...] When things break, there’s nothing to do but failover, examine, and fix. [...]