The other day I set out to write a post on getting a WordPress instance running on OpenShift. I got sidelined in the confusion of determining the best place to install rhc tools from. I’m trying to be more deliberate… Continue Reading →
I’d encourage anyone who wants to host an application for free and try things out to sign up for an OpenShift account. There’s really nothing to lose. There’s an interesting thread on Hacker News about OpenShift with some people suggesting they’d… Continue Reading →
I have no technical backing for this suggestion except that I’ve seen it work on two different operating systems with the Google Chrome web browser. Accessing my self-hosted WordPress blog to add posts and do site maintenance, page loads were taking… Continue Reading →
Mortgage Madness I refinanced again–once again with no closing costs while sacrificing some on the rate. Interest rates are again at historic lows which meant I had to take avantage of two great opportunities–lowering my rate by three quarters of a… Continue Reading →
This quote from Mark Sigal’s Ruminations on the legacy of Steve Jobs was interesting, If this seems intuitive, and it should be, consider the modus operandi that preceded it. Before Apple, the hard truth was that the “inmates ran the asylum,” in… Continue Reading →
Today I ran into a strange problem where messages seemed to be missing from my Inbox. Running “repair folder” from the properties tab automatically moved several messages to the trash. Moving them back to the inbox and repeating the process… Continue Reading →
My recent post on fixing terminator was months in the making, partly because I lost the environment I was using to double-check all the steps and partly because other things just kept coming up. Several months back when I found the original fix… Continue Reading →
In my switch from Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) one of the things I lost was Terminator. Even though it was in EPEL and installed without issue, the cursor wasn’t visible, making it hard to use. For a… Continue Reading →
It seems like the right time to make this move. I am not involved in Fedora to the extent I used to be so I’m removing my full blog feed from Fedora Planet. I like all the traffic Fedora Planet… Continue Reading →
I came across an interesting situation yesterday with OpenShift Express. I was trying to register a new domain using rhc-create-app and received this cryptic error message: There was a problem communicating with the server. Response message: getaddrinfo: Servname not supported for… Continue Reading →
Riffing on a theme from Rework… I believe the project management structure and process framework of team should be a little less than “just enough.” Anything more wastes people’s time and becomes more about the process than shipping (thank you… Continue Reading →
I’ve been a big fan of python bugzilla for a long time and used it often in Fedora to gather bugs for the release blocker meetings. If you aren’t familiar with python bugzilla, it is a very useful library and… Continue Reading →
I couldn’t be prouder of today’s OpenShift (PAAS–Platform as a Service) cloud announcement by Red Hat. It’s not often that you get to be project manager on a release this big or exciting. It was a massive team effort involving… Continue Reading →
I was sad to read Kevin Fenzi’s post about Fedora Talk closing down. Fedora Talk was a Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone system running Asterisk, freely available to anyone with a Fedora account. I thought it was a great service with… Continue Reading →
From Richard Hughes’ blog on February 2, 2011, In GNOME 3.0, we’re defaulting to suspending the computer when the user shuts the lid, and not providing any preferences combobox to change this. This is what the UI designers for GNOME… Continue Reading →
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